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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9913-6295

Also known as:  Bernard W.T. Coetzee,
Email: [email protected]

Dr Bernard Coetzee is a conservation ecologist, focusing on how humans are altering the natural environment, how that changes biodiversity, and what that means for our well being. Bernard has a science and policy background, with a interests in elephant conservation, birds, climate change, biogeography, nocturnal ecology and landscape conservation.

External IDs:  Scopus Author ID: 22950201100
Websites:  Personal website, Twitter, Google Scholar

University of Pretoria: Pretoria, ZA
2021 to Present | Senior Lecturer (Zoology & Entomology)

University of the Witwatersand: Johannesburg, ZA
2017 to 2021 | Research Associate (Global Change Institute)

Organisation for Tropical Studies: Skukuza, ZA
2015 to 2020 | Lecturer

Monash University: Clayton, AU
2013 to 2015 | Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Pretoria: Pretoria, ZA
| Bsc Hons, Msc (Department of Zoology and Entomology)

Stellenbosch University: Matieland, ZA
2009 to 2013 | Phd Zoology

Reducing vector borne disease risk by optimizing artificial light expansion across Africa
Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant: Johannesburg, ZA
2021 to 2023 | Grant

The Environmental Light Characteristics of Forest Under Different Logging Regimes
2024-12 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.70623
Source: Crossref

Only incandescent light significantly decreases feeding of Anopheles funestus s.s. (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes under laboratory conditions
2024-10 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-024-08370-3
Source: Crossref

Scaling artificial light at night and disease vector interactions into socio-ecological systems: a conceptual appraisal
2023-12-18 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0371
Source: Crossref

Need for shared internal mound conditions by fungus-growing Macrotermes does not predict their species distributions, in current or future climates
2023-08-28 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0152
Source: Crossref

The impacts of artificial light at night in Africa: Prospects for a research agenda
2023-03-29 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2023/13988
Source: Crossref

Reimagining the wilderness ethic to include “people and nature”
2022-09 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-022-02452-3
Source: Crossref

Random population fluctuations bias the Living Planet Index
2021-06-24 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01494-0
Source: Crossref

An appeal for more rigorous use of counterfactual thinking in biological conservation
2021-06 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/csp2.409
ISSN: 2578-4854
ISSN: 2578-4854
Source: Bernard Coetzee

Antarctica’s wilderness fails to capture continent’s biodiversity
2020 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2506-3
EID: 2-s2.0-85087985876
ISSN: 14764687 00280836
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Land cover change homogenizes functional and phylogenetic diversity within and among African savanna bird assemblages
2020 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-019-00939-z
EID: 2-s2.0-85075973836
ISSN: 15729761 09212973
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Mass sterilization of a common palm species by elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa
2020 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68679-8
EID: 2-s2.0-85088153185
ISSN: 20452322
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Understanding recruitment limitations in a critically endangered species: The story of the iconic Cape cedar (Widdringtonia wallichii)
2020 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01062
EID: 2-s2.0-85085331216
ISSN: 23519894
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Challenges and opportunities for monitoring wild Nile crocodiles with scute mark-recapture photography
2018 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.4102/koedoe.v60i1.1505
EID: 2-s2.0-85055513042
ISSN: 20710771 00756458
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Elephants, termites and mound thermoregulation in a progressively warmer world
2018 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-018-0629-9
EID: 2-s2.0-85043357455
ISSN: 15729761 09212973
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity
2017 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001656
EID: 2-s2.0-85016957668
ISSN: 15457885 15449173
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Barriers to globally invasive species are weakening across the Antarctic
2017 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12593
EID: 2-s2.0-85028566416
ISSN: 14724642 13669516
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Evaluating the ecological performance of protected areas
2017 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1235-2
EID: 2-s2.0-84992065867
ISSN: 15729710 09603115
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Expanding the Protected Area Network in Antarctica is Urgent and Readily Achievable
2017 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12342
EID: 2-s2.0-85014711406
ISSN: 1755263X
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

A meta-analysis of human disturbance impacts on Antarctic wildlife
2016 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12184
EID: 2-s2.0-85028281444
ISSN: 1469185X
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Land-use change promotes avian diversity at the expense of species with unique traits
2016 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2389
EID: 2-s2.0-84990829744
ISSN: 20457758
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Microclimates mitigate against hot temperatures in dryland ecosystems: Termite mounds as an example
2016 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1509
EID: 2-s2.0-84995741751
ISSN: 21508925
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Microclimate-based macrophysiology: Implications for insects in a warming world
2015 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2015.09.013
EID: 2-s2.0-84947725793
ISSN: 22145745
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Local scale comparisons of biodiversity as a test for global protected area ecological performance: A meta-analysis
2014 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105824
EID: 2-s2.0-84916621869
ISSN: 19326203
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Scale effects on the body size frequency distributions of African birds: Patterns and potential mechanisms
2013 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00793.x
EID: 2-s2.0-84874739984
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Beyond bioclimatic envelopes: dynamic species' range and abundance modelling in the context of climatic change
2010 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.06023.x
EID: 2-s2.0-77955265564
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Ensemble models predict important bird areas in southern Africa will become less effective for conserving endemic birds under climate change
2009 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00485.x
EID: 2-s2.0-70350397840
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Conservation with caveats
2008 | Journal-article
EID: 2-s2.0-47749123436
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Overgrazing and bush encroachment by Tarchonanthus camphoratus in a semi-arid savanna
2008 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00842.x
EID: 2-s2.0-50849124127
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Invasion of grasslands by silver wattle, Acacia dealbata (Mimosaceae), alters beetle (Coleoptera) assemblage structure
2007 | Journal-article
DOI: 10.4001/1021-3589-15.2.328
EID: 2-s2.0-35649015394
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

South African Environmental Observation Network: Vision, design and status
2007 | Journal-article
EID: 2-s2.0-37349072151
Source: Scopus - Elsevier

Expanding the Protected Area Network in Antarctica is Urgent and Readily Achievable
| Journal-article
Source: Bernard Coetzee

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