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Karen Vickers
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Education  Professional Experience Researh Interests Publications most closely related to this proposal Additional publications
Education
2001: B.Sc. Honours Animal Biology. University of British Columbia. 1998: M.Sc. Conservation Biology. University of Cape Town.
Professional Experience
2007: Junior Lecturer. Organization for Tropical Studies, South Africa. 2006 - 2007: 2006-2007 Teaching Assistant, Organization for Tropical Studies, South Africa 2005 - 2006: Intern, Biodiversity Planning, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa 2002 - 2005: Wildlife Technician, Common Murre Restoration Project, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, DC 2001 - 2002: Research Technician, Animal Welfare Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2001: Research Technician, Marbled Murrelet Research Project, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Researh Interests
Conservation biology, Conservation Planning, Biodiversity patterns, Seabird Behaviour
Publications most closely related to this proposal
Vickers K.J., Rouget M., and M. Lotter. 2007. Measuring reserve redundancy and reserve effectiveness using a novel target based approach. In press.
Additional publications
Vickers K.J., Neil L., L.J. Kielbauch and D.M. Weary. 2005. Calf response to caustic paste and hot-iron dehorning using sedation with and without a local anaesthetic. Journal of Dairy Science 88: 1454-1459.