Professor John Cortes MBE

Beacon Professor

Beacon ProfessorNatural Sciences & EnvironmentResearch

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Research Background

Research Background

john.cortes@unigib.edu.gi

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Cortes

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cortes

Research Interests

Dr Cortes’s research and publications reflect his interests in ornithology, plant and animal ecology, primatology and conservation biology. Special interests invasive species, reptile ecology, cliff ecology, phenology of migration, and ecology and behaviour of Barbary Macaque. John has field experience in Gibraltar, Spain and North Africa (Especially Morocco)

Selected Publications

Cortes, John & Amezian, Mohamed. (2007). Nesting sites of the Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis in North-western Morocco. Gibraltar Bird Report. 6. 51-54.

Cortes, John & Bensusan, Keith & Linares, Leslie & Perez, Charles & Leverton, Theresa & Meldrum, Julia & Pinel, John. (2011). Gibraltar Nature News Summer.

Cortes, John & Finlayson, Clive & Mosquera, M & Garcia, E. (1980). The Birds of Gibraltar.

Cortes, John & Linares, Leslie & Bensusan, Keith & Thompson, Ian & Amezian, Mohamed & Perez, Charles & Hammada, Soumaya. (2007). The Gibraltar connection: a study of plant species that link Gibraltar to the Rif.

Cortes, John & Shaw, Eric. (2006). The Gibraltar Macaques: Management and future.

Cortes, John. (2006). The Gibraltar macaques: Origin, history and demography.

Cortes, John. (2008). The 1997/98 Non-Estuarine Coastal Waterbird Survey in Gibraltar.

Cortes, John. (2010). A House Bunting Emberiza sahari nesting in a palm tree in Tangier, Morocco. Gibraltar Bird Report. 9. 44-45.

Cortes, John. (2020). Section 7: Raising our profile – engaging policy makers and the public.

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