Rosalind Kennerley

Rosalind "Ros" J. Kennerley (* 20th century) is a British biologist , ecologist and conservationist .

Life

Kennerley studied at Cardiff University from 2000 , where she obtained a bachelor's degree in applied biology in 2003 . From 2006 to 2007 she completed a degree in Applied Ecology and Conservation at the University of East Anglia , where she graduated with a Masters . After an ecology studies at the University of Reading from 2010 it was in 2014 with the dissertation The ecology of the Hispaniolan solenodon and hutia in native forest and agricultural landscapes in the Dominican Republic under the direction of Samuel T. Turvey for Ph.D. PhD.

From March to August 2004 she worked as a research assistant for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in the Leighton Moss & Morecambe Bay Nature Reserves , where she carried out studies on the breeding and feeding behavior of bitterns and on wild fowl and nesting bird censuses in the Nature reserve participated. From September 2004 to March 2006 she worked in Mauritius , where she carried out field studies on the rose pigeon and the Mauritian parakeet in collaboration with the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation . From March to July 2006 she carried out a study on the small Northern Irish island of Rathlin on behalf of Queen's University Belfast to investigate the effects of introduced ferrets and rabbits on nesting birds. From 2007 to 2010 she worked as an ecologist at The Lodge nature reserve near Sandy , where she erected fences to keep foxes away from the waders' nesting sites . During her five-year study period in Reading from 2010 to 2014, Kennerley received a PhD scholarship funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to study the ecology of the endangered Dominican weevil and cuvier zaguti in native forest and agricultural systems in the Dominican Republic . This culminated in 2015 with the first description of the subspecies Plagiodontia aedium ssp. bondi des Cuvier-Zagutis, published by Kennerley in collaboration with Samuel T. Turvey.

Kennerley has been the coordinator of the IUCN SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group in the Caribbean since November 2014 . Since March 2015 she has been an advisory project manager at the Haitian Solenodon Project, a study that aims to improve the protection of the Dominican weevil in the Pic Macaya National Park and in the Massif de la Hotte . Since May 2015 she has been a conservation scientist for the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and program officer at the IUCN SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group and coordinator of this research group for the Red List of Endangered Species .

In 2017, Kennerley wrote the special chapter Priorities for the Conservation of Rodents in the World in Volume 7 with Thomas Edward Lacher Jr. , Richard Young, Samuel T. Turvey and Nicolette Roach and in 2018 in collaboration with Thomas Edward Lacher Jr., Victor Mason, Shelby McCay, Nicolette Roach , PJ Stephenson, Mariella Superina and Richard Young the special chapter on conservation priorities and actions for the orders Cingulata, Pilosa, Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Eulipotyphla, Dermoptera and Scandentia in the eighth volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World .

Web links

• Profile and curriculum vitae on LinkedIn
• Bibliography at Google Scholar
• Member profile of the IUCN SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group