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Richard Cowling
Richard Cowling
Richard Cowling
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History
- 1978: Scientific Officer, University of Cape Town (UCT) 1983: Postdoctoral Fellow, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
- 1984: Senior Research Associate, University of Port Elizabeth
- 1986: Scientific Co-ordinator, CSIR National Programmes
- 1987: Lecturer in Botany, UCT
- 1991: Associate Professor in Botany, UCT
- 1992: Leslie Hill Professor of Plant Conservation and Director, Leslie Hill Institute for Plant Conservation, UCT
- 1999: Adjunct Professional Fellow, School of Environmental Biology, Curtin University, Perth
- 2000: Research Professor, Botany Department and Terrestrial Ecological Research Unit, University of Port Elizabeth
- 2000: Honorary Professor in Botany, UCT
- 2001: Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Biology, Curtin University, Perth
- 2002: Scientific Advisor, Southern African Hotspots Program, Conservation International
- 2004: Research Associate: CSIR:Environmentek
Awards and honours
- 1974: Class Medal: Zoology II, UCT
- 1977: Distinction: Botany Honours, UCT
- 1983: CSIR Postdoctoral Grant
- 1983: Smuts Memorial Scholarship
- 1987: FRD President's Award for Outstanding Young Scientist
- 1989: Bremner Travel Grant
- 1991: FRD Evaluation, B rating
- 1993: Bremner Travel Grant
- 1993: Cape Times Centenary Award (Conservation)
- 1993: Special Performance Award (UCT)
- 1994: Pew Fellows Program Award
- 1994: FRD Evaluation: B1 rating (improved status)
- 1994: Special Performance Award, UCT
- 1995: Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Environmental Biology: Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.
- 1995: Special Performance Award, UCT
- 1996: Special Performance Award (UCT)
- 1997: Elected President: International Society of Mediterranean Ecologists
- 1998: Elected member: Academy of Science of South Africa
- 1998: NRF (FRD) Evaluation: A2 rating
- 1999: Special Performance Award, UCT
- 2001: Compton Prize for best paper (1999) in South African Journal of Botany
- 2002: Invited Fellow: World Innovation Foundation, United Kingdom
- 2003: Gold Medal Award: Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa
- 2003: NRF Evaluation: A2 rating
- 2003: Silver Medal: South African Association of Botanists
- 2003: Rouget et al (2003: Biol Conserv 112, 63-85) cited as New Hot Paper: Environment/Ecology (November) by ISI Essential Science Indicators
- 2004: Flora Conservation Award: Botanical Society of South Africa
- 2004: Distinguished Service Award: Society for Conservation Biology (USA)
- 2005: C.A.P.E. Gold Award for Innovating Conservation
- 2005: Buchu Award Gold: Cape St Francis Civic Association
- 2006: Researcher of the Year: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- 2008: Elected Foreign Associate: National Academy of Sciences USA
- 2008: Calibre Award for Excellent Community Service: Greater St Francis Bay Community
Research
- Systematic conservation assessments for implementing conservation actions in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems
- Mapping and quantifying ecosystem services and their benefit streams
- Plant evolutionary patterns and processes in species-rich regions (fynbos, succulent karoo and thicket)
- Mainstreaming conservation plans via social marketing
- Restoration for carbon credits in the thicket biome
- Plant diversity in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems
- Pollination ecology and coexistence of congeners
- Insect-plant diversity patterns
- Biology, biogeography and diversity of Cape geophytes
- Fire regimes for maintaining diversity and reducing wildfire risk
Interests
- Conservation assessment and implementation
- Mainstreaming biodiversity into various sectors
- Research for implementation
- Patterns and determinants of biodiversity in species-rich landscapes
- Plant diversification
- Landscape ecology and Geographic Information Systems
- Resource economics
- Pollination and flower biology
- Plant responses to herbivory
- Plant rarity
Students
PhD Students
- Derek Berliner (Univ Cape Town): Systematic conservation planning for the forest biome of South Africa
- Jonathan Colville (Univ Cape Town): Plant-monkey beetle (Hopliniidae) patterns in Namaqualand
- David Hoare (NMMU): Diversity patterns and determinants in the SW grassland biome
- Jean Nel (Univ Cape Town): Systematic conservation and implementation for freshwater ecosystems
- Amrei von Hase (Univ Cape Town): Conservation planning in fragmented landscapes: identifying priorities and constraints and opportunities for implementation
- Angelika Wilhelm-Reichmann (NMMU): Using social marketing to bridge the gap between planning and implementation at the local government level
- Christo Botes (University of KwaZulu-Natal): Pollinator-driven diversification of sympatric Satyrium (Orchidaceae) species
MSc Students
- Dylan Anderson (NMMU): Restoration of a beach and primary dune ecosystem using an artificial reef
- Christo Botes (NMMU): Pollination ecology, coexistence and hybridisation of sympatric Aloe spp
- Tracey Cummings (Rhodes): Conservation incentives for commercial farmers in the thicket biome
- Imogen Duncan (Rhodes): Contrasting biodiversity values in four states of Eastern Cape savanna
- Richard Fenwick (NMMU): Impacts of indigenous herbivores and domestic livestock on Little Karoo vegetation
- Ndumiso Nongwe (Univ Cape Town): Patterns, causes and consequences of transformation and degradation in the Little Karoo
- Brian Reeves (NMMU): Managing the virtual commons: developing a community conservation area and identifying priorities and strategies for conservation action
- Warrick Stewart (NMMU): Using systematic conservation assessment tools to identify and implement a metropolitan open space system
- Adam Welz (Univ Cape Town): Identifying and mapping ecosystem services for implementation by local government: conceptual and operational issues
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