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Dr Eli Rudinow Saetnan

Teaching Fellow in Animal Behaviour
Photograph of Dr Eli Rudinow Saetnan.

Contact

Email: ers@aber.ac.uk
Office: Z2.04, Edward Llwyd Building
Phone: +44(0)1970 628667

Teaching Areas

  • BS 23520 Animal Behaviour
  • BS22720 Quantitive Biology
  • BS31110 Honours Special Study
Currently also developing new modules in:

  • Undergraduate skills provision
  • Zoo science
  • Animal behaviour field course
  • Mammalogy

Research

A general interest in mammal behaviour and ecology and aspects of plant-mammal interactions.

Currently developing two new research areas:

  • The ecology of Miscanthus: small mammal diversity and habitat use in a bioenergy crop.
  • Behavioural effects of urbanization in mammals

Staff Publications

Saetnan, E. R., Skarpe, C. and Batzli, G. O. (in submission) Responses of plants and voles to grazing by sheep in alpine rangelands of central Norway.

Saetnan, E. R. and Batzli, G. O. (in press) Effects of simulated herbivory on defensive compounds in forage plants of Norwegian alpine rangelands. Journal of Chemical Ecology

Saetnan, E. R., Gjershaug, J. O. and Batzli, G. O. (2008) Habitat use and diet composition of Norwegian lemmings and field voles in central Norway. Journal of Mammalogy 90(1): 183-188

Saetnan, E. R. and Skarpe, C. (2006) The effect of ungulate grazing on a small mammal community in southeastern Botswana. African Zoology 41(1): 9-16