Graeme comes from Harare, Zimbabwe, where he went to Saint George’s College. He studied Zoology and Entomology to the honours level at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He then moved to Oxford University, U.K., on a Rhodes Scholarship. While at New College, Oxford, Graeme completed his doctorate on ‘The Evolutionary Ecology of African Ticks’ under the supervision of Drs. Sarah Randolph and David Rogers. From Oxford he moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by a D. H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Nature Conservancy (TNC). In Madison he worked with TNC and Professor Steve Carpenter at the Center for Limnology on applying species-based models to management and conservation-related problems in freshwater systems. After two years as a postdoc, he was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida. Graeme returned to Africa at the end of 2005 and occupied the Pola Pasvolsky Chair in Conservation Biology at the University of Cape Town until end June 2015, when he moved to his current position.

Graeme has a wide range of interests, centering around understanding spatial aspects of ecology and the relevance of broad-scale pattern-process dynamics for ecosystem (and social-ecological system) function and resilience. He is also interested in the applications of landscape ecology and complexity theory to conservation and the sustainable management of natural resources.    

Interests

Research

• landscape ecology community ecology social-ecological systems

Experience

• 2006 to 2015 - Pola Pasvolsky Chair, Percy FitzPatrick Institute (University of Cape Town)
• 2001 to 2005 - Assistant Professor, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA)
• 1999 to 2001 - David H. Smith Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI, USA)

Research Disciplines

• Ecological Applications (0501)
• Environmental Science and Management (0502)
• Ecology (0602)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding Knowledge (9701)
• Ecosystem Assessment and Management (9605)
• Remnant Vegetation and Protected Conservation Areas (9613)

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Journal Articles

• Hughes T, Kerry J, Álvarez-Noriega M, Alvarez-Romero J, Anderson K, Baird A, Babcock R, Beger M, Bellwood D, Berkelmans R, Bridge T, Butler I, Byrne M, Cantin N, Comeau S, Connolly S, Cumming G, Dalton S, Diaz-Pulido G, Eakin C, Figueira W, Gilmour J, Harrison H, Heron S, Hoey A, Hobbs J, Hoogenboom M, Kennedy E, Kuo C, Lough J, Lowe R, Liu G, McCulloch M, Malcolm H, McWilliam M, Pandolfi J, Pears R, Pratchett M, Schoepf V, Simpson T, Skirving W, Sommer B, Torda G, Wachenfeld D, Willis B and Wilson S (2017) Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals. Nature, 543 (7645). pp. 373-377
• Ament J and Cumming G (2016) Scale dependency in effectiveness, isolation, and social-ecological spillover of protected areas. Conservation Biology, 30 (4). pp. 846-855
• Clements H, Baum J and Cumming G (2016) Money and motives: an organizational ecology perspective on private land conservation. Biological Conservation, 197. pp. 108-115
• Clements H, Cumming G and Kerley G (2016) Predators on private land: broad-scale socioeconomic interactions influence large predator management. Ecology and Society, 21 (2). pp. 1-9
• Congrains C, Carvalho A, Miranda E, Cumming G, Henry D, Manu S, Abalaka J, Rocha C, Diop M, Sá J, Monteiro H, Holbech L, Gbogbo F and Del Lama S (2016) Genetic and paleomodelling evidence of the population expansion of the cattle egret Bubulcus ibis in Africa during the climatic oscillations of the Late Pleistocene. Journal of Avian Biology, 47 (6). pp. 846-857
• Cumming G, Morrison T and Hughes T (2016) New directions for understanding the spatial resilience of social–ecological systems. Ecosystems, 20 (4). pp. 649-664
• Cumming G (2016) Heterarchies: reconciling networks and hierarchies. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31 (8). pp. 622-632
• Cumming G, Harebottle D, Mundava J, Otieno N and Tyler S (2016) Timing and location of reproduction in African waterfowl: an overview of >100 years of nest records. Ecology and Evolution, 6 (3). pp. 631-646
• De Vos A, Cumming G, Cumming D, Ament J, Baum J, Clements H, Grewar J, Maciejewski K and Moore C (2016) Pathogens, disease, and the social-ecological resilience of protected areas. Ecology and Society, 21 (1). pp. 1-26
• De Vos A, Cumming G, Moore C, Maciejewski K and Duckworth G (2016) The relevance of spatial variation in ecotourism attributes for the economic sustainability of protected areas. Ecosphere, 7 (2).
• Espinaze M, Hellard E, Horak I and Cumming G (2016) Analysis of large new South African dataset using two host-specificity indices shows generalism in both adult and larval ticks of mammals. Parasitology, 143 (3). pp. 366-373
• Hellard E, Cumming G, Caron A, Coe E and Peters J (2016) Testing epidemiological functional groups as predictors of avian haemosporidia patterns in southern Africa. Ecosphere, 7 (4).

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Current

• Spatial ecology and space use in browsing herbivorous reef fishes: ecological drivers and effects on ecosystem function. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Beyond the Reef: The Influence of Seascape Structure on Fish Communities and Ecological Processes on Coral Reefs (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Relationships between value sharing and management effectiveness of MPAs (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Managing Marine Protected Areas to Promote the Resilience of Coral Reef Ecosystems (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• The Effect of Globalisation on the Resilience of Coral Reef Dependent Small Island Communities Through its Influence on Feedback Networks Within Socio-Ecological Systems (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Spatial Modelling of Individual Service Choices and Their Implications for Social-Ecological Transitions (PhD , Primary Advisor)

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