M. Corrie Schoeman

Martinus Corrie Schoeman (* in the 20th century in Johannesburg ), often M. Corrie Schoeman , is a South African evolutionary ecologist . His main research interests are bats .

Life

Schoeman spent his childhood in the Netherlands. He returned to South Africa, where he graduated from high school and studied law and economics at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg from 1986 to 1990 . After his military service he spent from August 1992 to July 1997 in Taiwan , where he worked as an English teacher. From 1998 he completed a degree in zoology and biology at the Witwatersrand University, which he completed in 2000 as a Bachelor of Science. In 2001 he obtained a Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Cape Town . From 2002 he studied in zoology and biology at the University of Cape Town, where he in 2006 with a thesis The relative influence of competition and coevolution on the community structure of insectivorous bats in southern Africa for Ph.D. received his doctorate. From April 2007 to December 2012 he was a lecturer in evolutionary ecology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal . From January 2012 to December 2015 he was a lecturer in ecology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has been Associate Professor since December 2015 and Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal since January 2017.

Schoeman's research interests include studying the causes and consequences of biodiversity , from genetics to ecosystems in human-dominated and natural landscapes of Africa and Madagascar .

Schoeman conducted field studies on small mammals (especially bats ) and insects in Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia and Central America . He has published numerous scientific articles and he was the first descriptions involved several African species of bats, including hypsugo bemainty , Rhinolophus cohenae , Rhinolophus mabuensis , Rhinolophus mossambicus , Rhinolophus smithersi , coleura kibomalandy , Macronycteris cryptovalorona , Miniopterus EGERI , Miniopterus mahafalensis and Rhinolophus gorongosae .

In 2010, Schoeman was a co-author of the books Bats of Southern and Central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis and Understanding Concepts in Mathematics and Science: A Multilingual Learning and Teaching Resource Book in English, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Afrikaans .

Schoeman was Vice President of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa from 2014 to 2015 .

Web links

• Short biography at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (PDF)
• Curriculum Vitae on LinkedIn
• Bibliography at Google Scholar