Elicia Bell

Elicia Bell is a PhD candidate in the SURREAL Laboratory within the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. Her doctoral research investigates pastoralist–carnivore in northern Tanzania’s Tarangire–Manyara Ecosystem, combining camera trap data with participatory research to examine how human land use practices and local ecological knowledge shape wildlife space use and human–wildlife coexistence dynamics.

Previously, her master’s thesis focused on carnivore behavioural ecology in western Alberta, using camera traps to study the spatiotemporal interactions and scavenging ecology of a mesocarnivore guild. Elicia's broader interests lie in understanding the influence of human activities, landscape variability and resource competition among heterospecifics shape wildlife space use and movement behaviour as a function of environmental stimuli in shared landscapes.

For details on current research affiliations: www.eliciabell.com