• Senior Lecturer – Environmental Science
• Office: SW129
• Extension: 2342
• Email: [email protected] 

Qualifications

1. PhD degree in Zoology (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, 2017). Thesis title: Freshwater invertebrate assemblages of the Eastern Cape Karoo region (South Africa) earmarked for shale gas exploration.
2. MSc degree Tropical Resource Ecology (University of Zimbabwe, 2008). Dissertation title: Study of ephemeral rock pools on Domboshawa Mountain, Zimbabwe.
3. BSc Honours degree Biological Sciences (University of Zimbabwe, 2004). Dissertation title: Investigating experimental wetlands in water purification.
4. Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe, 2010).

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

• Mabidi A, Bird MS, Perissinotto R (2020). Relationships between vegetation cover (Schoenoplectus decipiens) and wetland macroinvertebrate assemblages in a semi-arid landscape (Eastern Cape Karoo, South Africa). Hydrobiologia 847 (7), 2049−2064. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04230-0.   
• Mabidi A, Bird MS, Perissinotto R (2018). Increasing salinity drastically reduces hatching success of crustaceans from depression wetlands of the semi-arid Eastern Cape Karoo region, South Africa. Scientific Reports 8:5983. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-24137-0.
• Mabidi A, Bird MS, Perissinotto R (2017b). Distribution and diversity of aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in a semi-arid region earmarked for shale gas exploration (Eastern Cape Karoo, South Africa). PLOS ONE 12(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178559.
• Mabidi A, Bird MS, Perissinotto R (2017a). Assessment of the physico-chemical characteristics of surface waterbodies in a region earmarked for shale gas exploration (Eastern Cape Karoo, South Africa). Marine and Freshwater Research 68 (9), 1626−1641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF16102.
• Mabidi A, Bird MS, Perissinotto R, Rogers DC (2016). Ecology and distribution of large branchiopods (Crustacea, Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata) of the Eastern Cape Karoo, South Africa. ZooKeys 618, 15−38. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.618.9212
• Anusa A, Ndagurwa HGT, Magadza CHD (2012). The influence of pool size on species diversity and water chemistry in temporary rock pools on Domboshawa Mountain, northern Zimbabwe. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 37(1), 89−99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2012.666378.