Swift fox (Vulpes velox) COSEWIC assessment and status report 2009: chapter 14

Biographical Summary of Report Writer

Jay Gedir completed a B.Sc. in Zoology at the University of Guelph. For his M.Sc. at the University of Reading (UK), he studied the impacts of elephants on vegetation in Yankari National Park in Nigeria. For his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, he studied intake and foraging behaviour by reproductive wapiti. Post–doctoral work at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University (UK) assessed predator–prey relationships between cheetah and antelope in Namibia. Jay is also studying the ecological characteristics of captive–bred reintroduced species (Centre for Conservation Research at Calgary Zoo), and developing Bayesian population models for reintroduced North Island saddlebacks in New Zealand (Massey University, NZ) and translocated black rhinos in southern Africa (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ). He has co–ordinated deer research in the US for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Jay is a member of the IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group and Deer  Specialist Group.

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