Dr Tom Bruce

I am a wildlife biologist interested in how species respond to a changing world. My main research interests involve utilising a range of methods such as line transects and camera-trapping to understand how species populations change through time, across disturbance gradients, and how species interact. Personal highlights from my career include understanding African forest elephant and great ape population changes through time in Cameroon and how feral cats and dingoes interact in Austral tropical rainforest. My role in CBCS’s Ecological Cascades Lab focuses on developing the Wildlife Observatory to facilitate Australia to understand critical issues around wildlife using robust datasets and cutting-edge analyses.

Publications

Bruce, T, SE Williams, R Amin, F L'Hotellier, BT Hirsch. 2022. Laying low: Rugged lowland rainforest preferred by feral cats in the Australian Wet Tropics. Ecology and Evolution, 12(7), p.e9105.

Zwerts, JA, PJ Stephenson, F Maisels, M Rowcliffe, C Astaras, PA Jansen, J van Der Waarde, LE Sterck, PA Verweij, T Bruce, S Brittain. 2021. Methods for wildlife monitoring in tropical forests: Comparing human observations, camera traps, and passive acoustic sensors. Conservation Science and Practice, 3(12), p.e568.

Amin, R, H Klair, T Wacher, C Ndjassi, A Fowler, D Olson, T Bruce. 2021. Estimating forest antelope population densities using distance sampling with camera traps. Oryx, 1-7.

Amin, R, T Wacher, T Bruce, C Barichievy. 2021. The status and ecology of the sand cat in the Uruq Bani Ma’arid Protected Area, Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia. Mammalia, 85(3), pp.220-226.

Amin, R, O Fankem, ON Gilbert, T Bruce, C Ndjassi, D Olson, A Fowler. 2020. The Status of Forest elephant in the world heritage Dja Faunal Reserve, Cameroon. Pachyderm, 61, 78-89.

Bruce, T, R Amin, T Wacher, O Fankem, C Ndjassi, M Ngo Bata, A Fowler, H Ndinga, D Olson. 2018. Using camera trap data to characterise terrestrial larger‐bodied mammal communities in different management sectors of the Dja Faunal Reserve, Cameroon. African Journal of Ecology, 56(4), pp.759- 776.

Bruce T, C Ndjassi, M Lebreton, T Wacher, A Fowler, RB Tabue Mbobda, D Olson. 2018. African golden cat and leopard persist in the Dja Faunal Reserve. Cat News (68).

Bruce, T, R Kamta, RB Tabue Mbobda, S Talla Kanto, D Djibrilla, I Moses, V Deblauwe, K Njabo, M LeBreton, C Barichievy, D Olson. 2018. Locating giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) using camera-traps on burrows. Tropical Conservation Science.

Ngo Bata, M, J Easton, O Fankem, T Wacher, T Bruce, T Elisee, P Augustin Taguieteu, D Olson. 2017. Extending the northeastern distribution of Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) into the Dja Faunal Reserve, Cameroon. African Primates, 12: 65-67.

Technical reports and book chapters

Amin, R, T Bruce, O Fankem, T Wacher, G Oum Ndjock, AS Kobla, D Olson, A Fowler. 2023. The conservation value of Dja Faunal Reserve for tropical forest mammal communities. Zoological Society of London. pp 1 – 102.

Hoffmann, M, S Nixon, D Alempijevic, S Ayebare, T Bruce, TR Davenport, J Hart, T Hart, M Hega, F Maisels, D Mills. 2020. Giant pangolin Smutsia gigantea (Illiger, 1815). In Pangolins: Science, Society and Conservation, (eds D.W. Challender, H.C. Nash & C. Waterman), pp. 157-173. Academic Press.

Bruce, T, C Ndjassi, A Fowler, M Ndimbe, O Fankem, RB Tabue Mbobda, AS Kobla, FA Wabo Puemo, R Amin, T Wacher, S Grange-Chamfray. 2018. Faunal Inventory of the Dja Faunal Reserve, Cameroon - 2018. Published report. Zoological Society of London, pp. 67.

Bruce T, T Wacher, H Ndinga, V Bidjoka, F Meyong, M Ngo Bata, J Easton, O Fankem, T Elisee, PA Taguieteu, D Olson. 2017. Camera-trap survey for larger terrestrial wildlife in the Dja Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon. Zoological Society of London (ZSL) & Ministry of Forests and Fauna (MINFOF), Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Beudels‐Jamar RC, R-M Lafontaine, H Robert, Y Laurent, R Amin, T Bruce, S Maurissen, O Jamar de Bolsée. 2016. Identification des zones de grande valeur de biodiversité à l’intérieur et dans la périphérie de l’Assietee de Coupe Provisoire du permis 190 de la compagnie SINFOCAM,

limitrophe au Parc National de Dzanga-Sangha, APDS, RCA. Belgium Museum Sciences Naturelles, WWF, Zoological Society of London.

Bruce, T, T Wacher, K Davey, R Amin. 2016. Mammal diversity in Uruq Bani Ma’arid protected area,

Saudi Arabia. Unpublished report. Zoological Society of London, Africa Programme, London.

Andanje, S, K Davey, B Ogwoka, B Agwanda, A Ali, T Bruce, T Wacher, R Amin. 2015. Mammal diversity surveys in the coastal forests; Kenya 2010-2011. Unpublished report. Zoological Society of London, Africa Programme, London.

Bruce, T, Q Saud al Hazzah, O Saad al Othman, M Hassan al Khairi, T Wronski, T Wacher, K Davey, R Amin. 2016. Mammal diversity survey in the Ibex Reserve, Saudi Arabia. Final report 2016. King Kahlid Wildife Research Center, Zoological Society of London, London, UK.