Andrea heads the team. She is a Professor in the School of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand, and an Extraordinary Lecturer in the Department of Paraclinical Sciences at the University of Pretoria.
KEEP is an on-going, multidisciplinary study on the reserve that takes into account that key Kalahari species interact with each other in complex food webs, and may respond differently to the direct and indirect effects of climate change.
Keeping track of your study animals can be difficult in a ~110,000 hectare laboratory.
The Wildlife Conservation Physiology team is currently undertaking research in the Kalahari, Karoo and Kruger National Park of South Africa.
The Wildlife Conservation Physiology team has pioneered innovative methods to study the physiology of free-living mammals
Pangolins are the most poached mammal in the world. Now ground pangolins face the additional threat of climate change.
The Wildlife Conservation Physiology team is investigating how these elusive creatures will respond.