Academic Editors
The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ Open Advances in Zoology. These active academics are the Editors who seek peer reviewers, evaluate their responses, and make editorial decisions on each submission to the journal. Learn more about becoming an Editor.
Kevin C. K. Ma
Dr. Kevin C. K. Ma is Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Kevin is passionate about the ecology of intertidal habitats around the Salish Sea (western Canada) and is a researcher with the Sentinels of Change, which is part of the integrated coastal observatory based out of the Hakai Institute. His work focuses on uncovering the patterns and processes that shape intertidal biodiversity, with a particular interest in understanding how this system responds to the effects of climate change
Savel Daniels
Prof. Savel Daniels is a Professor within the Evolutionary Genomics Group at the University of Stellenbosch. His research centers on understanding the interplay between species diversity and historical time in southern Africa, focusing on evolutionary relationships of a wide number of terrestrial and inland aquatic groups, primarily invertebrates.
Carlos Ramon R Ruiz-Miranda
Dr. Carlos Ramon Ruiz-Miranda is an Associate Professor of vertebrate behaviour and conservation at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense in Brazil.
His primary research interests include behaviour and conservation, animal reintroductions, and captive management.
Dr. Ruiz-Miranda obtained his Bachelor's degree in Biology in 1985 from Tulane University of Louisiana, and in 1992, a PhD in Animal Behaviour from University of California, Davis. During his PhD he worked on the ontogeny of behaviour and mother-offspring recognition in domestic and feral ungulates. From 1992-1997 he worked as Developmental Ethologist\Education specialist at the Department of Zoological Research of the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park. During this time he worked on the behaviour of wild and reintroduced golden lion tamarins. Since 1997 he has been a Vertebrate Behaviour and Conservation professor at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense in Brazil.
Martina Manns
Prof. Dr. Martina Manns is a Professor within the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Her research deals with the neuronal and functional mechanisms of brain development.
William Froneman
William Froneman, PhD is currently a professor of marine biology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research focusses on the top-down and bottom-up control of plankton food webs, predator-prey interactions and the ecological impacts of microplastics on shallow water ecosystems. Since obtaining his PhD degree in 1996, he has published 209 peer reviewed science journal articles, 10 book chapters and has successfully supervised 47 MSc theses and PhD dissertations. In recognition of his research achievements, he has received several awards including the Junior and Senior Distinguished Research awards from Rhodes University, South Africa and the Meiring Naude Gold medal from the Royal Society of South Africa.
Laurent Seuront
Dr. Laurent Seuront is a Research Professor at the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France.
His research is fundamentally based on a system approach that encompasses several phyla and taxa (from microbes to marine mammals) and a range of habitats (terrestrial, intertidal, coastal and open ocean) considered under various climatic regimes (from polar to tropical) to get a better understanding of the complexity of interactions that rule the structure and function of ecosystems. As such Dr. Seuront's research seeks universal structural and functional principles, and goes well beyond marine-related issues.