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DR MALCOLM A C NICOLL Senior Research Fellow Room: GU 16 (new Agriculture building) Tel: +44 (0)118 378 6026 Email: sas04man@reading.ac.uk |
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1988 - 1992 1992 - 1997 1998 - 1999 2000 - 2004 2004 - 2010 2010 - Current |
BSc Edinburgh University Projects Supervisor - Mauritian Wildlife Foundation. Seychelles Magpie-robin Recovery Programme, Seychelles. PhD - University of Reading Research Fellow, CAER Senior Research Fellow, CAER |
- Endangered species restoration
- The population ecology and management of threatened species, with a particular focus on reintroduced and island populations
- The conservation and management of raptors
CÆR Projects
- Round Island petrels: From genes to environmental change – the spatial ecology of a tropical seabird
- The Grey-headed fishing eagle: The status, distribution and ecology of the grey-headed fishing eagle at Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
- The Mauritius kestrel: Ecology and conservation
- The Sooty falcon: The status, distribution and ecology of the Sooty Falcon in Oman
- Spatial heterogeneity: Spatial heterogeneity in habitat quality and dispersal – individual decisions and their population dynamic consequences
- Threatened species database management
- Public access and shooting: A field study to measure the effects of public access, under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000), on the success of driven game shooting in England
- Predators and birds: Predation and its impact on avian prey populations – a review
- Ageing & Mauritius kestrels: Ageing and individual life histories in Mauritius kestrels – patterns, processes and their population dynamic consequences
- Ros Kennerley: The ecology of the Hispaniolan solenodon and Hispaniolan hutia in agricultural and native forest systems in the Dominican Republic
- Lianne Concannon: Managing threatened species: Understanding the factors limiting the recovery of the endangered pink pigeon
- Emily Joachim: Effects of agriculture on the ecology of the Little Owl Athene noctua in Britain
- Sam Cartwright: Spatial heterogeneity in habitat quality and dispersal – individual decisions and their population dynamic consequences
- Deepa Senapathi: Assessing changing rainfall patterns in Mauritius and their effect on the population dynamics of the Mauritius kestrel - Completed
- Malcolm Burgess: Population mechanisms of a restored population of the Mauritius kestrel - Completed
Nicoll, M.A.C. and Norris, K. (In press). Detecting an impact of predation on bird populations depends on the methods used to assess the predators. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Senapathi, D., Underwood, F., Black, E., Nicoll, M.A.C. & Norris, K. (In press). Evidence for long-term regional changes in precipitation on the East Coast Mountains in Mauritius. International Journal of Climatology.
Butler, S.B., Benton, T, Nicoll, M.A.C., Jones, C.G. and Norris, K. (2009) Indirect population dynamic benefits of altered life history trade-offs in response to egg harvesting. American Naturalist. 174(1): 111-121.
Burgess, M.D., Nicoll, M.A.C., Jones, C.G. and Norris, K. (2009) Habitat use by juvenile Mauritius kestrels Falco punctatus – does dimensionality matter? Ibis, 151, 63-76.
Jones, O.R., et al. (2008) Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast–slow life-history continuum. Ecology Letters, 11, 664-673
Ewing, S.R., Nager, R.G., Nicoll, M.A.C., Aumjaud, A., Jones, C.G., & Keller, L.F. (2008) Inbreeding and loss of genetic variation in a reintroduced population of Mauritius Kestrel. Conservation Biology, 22, 395-404.
Burgess, M.D., Nicoll, M.A.C., Jones, C.G. and Norris, K. (2008) Reduced dispersal reduces the strength of density-dependence in a tropical bird population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 275, 1209-
1216.Tingay, R.E., Nicoll, M.A.C. and Sun, V. (2006) Status and distribution of the grey-headed fish eagle (Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus) in the Prek Toal Core Area of Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. Journal of Raptor Research 40 (4), 277-
283.Nicoll, M.A.C., Jones, C.G. and Norris, K. (2006) The impact of harvesting on a formerly endangered tropical bird: insights from life-history theory. Journal of Applied Ecology, 43, 567-575.
Nicoll, M.A.C. (2004). The ecology and management of a re-introduced population of the Mauritius kestrel. PhD, University of Reading.
Nicoll, M.A.C., Jones, C.G. & Norris, K. (2004). Comparison of survival rates of captive-reared and wild-bred Mauritius (Falco punctatus) in a re-introduced population. Biological conservation, 118, 539-548.
Nicoll, M.A.C., Jones, C.G. & Norris, K. (2004). How raptor re-introductions can contribute to understanding population regulation: The Mauritius kestrel a case study. In: Raptors worldwide (eds. Chancellor, R.D., Meyburg, B.-U.)
pp. 297-304. WWGBP/MME.Nicoll, M.A.C., Jones, C.G. & Norris, K. (2003). Declining survival rates in a re-introduced population of the Mauritius: evidence for non-linear density-dependence and environmental stochasticity. Journal of Animal Ecology, 72, 917-926.
