• Challenges of elephant conservation: insights from oral histories of colonialism and landscape in Tsavo, Kenya 

  Kamau, Peter Ngugi; Sluyter, Andrew (American Geographical Society, 2017)

  Understanding the reasons for conflict between elephants and people who live adjacent to conservation areas remains key to recruiting them as allies in preserving elephant populations. The Tsavo region of Kenya has become ...
• Allometric Equations for Estimating Silk Oak (Grevillea robusta) Biomass in Agricultural Landscapes of Maragua Subcounty, Kenya 

  Mugo, Joseph Mware; Mwangi, James Kinyanjui; Omamo, Augustine Owate (Hindawi International Journal of Forestry Research, 2018-10-02)

  Grevillearobusta is widely interplanted with crops in Maragua subcounty,a practice that enhances biomass quantities in farmlands. However, quick tools for estimating biomass of such trees are lacking resulting in undervaluation ...
• Allometric Equations for Estimating Silk Oak (Grevillea robusta) Biomass in Agricultural Landscapes of Maragua Subcounty, Kenya 

  Mugo, Joseph Mware; Kinyanjui, Mwangi James; Owate, Omamo Augustine (Hindawi International Journal of Forestry Research, 2018)

  Grevillea robusta is widely interplanted with crops in Maragua subcounty, a practice that enhances biomass quantities in farmlands. However, quick tools for estimating biomass of such trees are lacking resulting in ...
• Impacts of Bush Encroachment on Wildlife Species Diversity, Composition, and Habitat Preference in Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya 

  Kavwele, Cyrus M.; Kinyanjui, Mwangi J.; .Kimanzi, Johnstone K (Hindawi International Journal of Ecology, 2017)

  Savannah ecosystems are currently facing a biome shift that changes grasslands to woody dominated landscapes, attributable to habitat degradation. In Ol Pejeta Conservancy (OPC), Eucleadivinorum, an unpalatable and invasive ...
• Relationships Between Cattle and Biodiversity in Multiuse Landscape Revealed by Kenya Long-Term Exclosure Experiment 

  Kimuyu, Duncan M.; Young, Truman P.; Porensky, Lauren M.; Riginos, Corinna; Veblen, Kari E.; Odadi, Wilfred O.; Charles, Grace K.; Young, Hillary S. (Elsevier, 2018-05)

  On rangelands worldwide, cattle interact with many forms of biodiversity, most obviously with vegetation and other large herbivores. Since 1995, we have been manipulating the presence of cattle, mesoherbivores, and ...
• Framing natural assets for advancing sustainability research: translating different perspectives into actions 

  Wambugu, Geoffrey; Martinez-Harms, Maria Jose; Gelcich, Stefan; Krug, Rainer M.; Maseyk, Fleur J. F.; Moersberger, Hannah; Rastogi, Archi; Krug, Cornelia B.; Spehn, Eva M.; Pascua, Unai (Springer, 2018)

  Sustainability is a key challenge for humanity in the context of complex and unprecedented global changes. Future Earth, an international research initiative aiming to advance global sustainability science, has recently ...
• Fire disturbance disrupts an acacia ant–plant mutualism in favor of a subordinate ant species 

  Kimuyu, Duncan K.; Sensenig, Ryan L.; Guajardo, Juan C. Ruiz; Veblen, Kari E.; Riginos, Corinna; Young, Truman P. (Wiley and sons, 2017-03)

  Although disturbance theory has been recognized as a useful framework in examining the stability of ant–plant mutualisms, very few studies have examined the effects of fire disturbance on these mutualisms. In myrmecophyt ...
• Estimation of Above Ground Biomass in Forests Using Alos Palsar Data in Kericho and Aberdare Ranges 

  Kinyanjui, Mwangi James; Odera, Patroba Achola; Maina, Eunice Wamuyu (Scientific Research Publishing, 2017)

  Above Ground Biomass is one of the six pools identified in the inventory of forest resources and estimation of greenhouse gas emissions and sinks from the forestry sector. The pool varies by management practices in different ...
• Impacts of Bush Encroachment on Wildlife Species Diversity, Composition, and Habitat Preference in Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya 

  Kavwele, Cyrus M.; Kimanzi, Johnstone K.; Kinyanjui, Mwangi J. (Hindawi, 2017-12)
• Estimation of Above Ground Biomass in Forests Using Alos Palsar Data in Kericho and Aberdare Ranges 

  Kinyanjui, Mwangi James; Odera, Patroba Achola; Maina, Eunice Wamuyu (Scientific Research Publishing, 2017)

  Above Ground Biomass is one of the six pools identified in the inventory of forest resources and estimation of greenhouse gas emissions and sinks from the forestry sector. The pool varies by management practices in different ...
• Fire disturbance disrupts an acacia ant–plant mutualism in favor of a subordinate ant species 

  Kimuyu, Duncan K.; Sensenig, Ryan L.; Guajardo, Juan C. Ruiz; Veblen, Kari E.; Riginos, Corinna; YOUNG, Truman P. (EcologicalSocietyof America, 2017)

  Although disturbance theory has been recognized as a useful framework in examining the stability of ant–plant mutualisms, very few studies have examined the effects of fire disturbance on these mutualisms. In myrmecophyt ...
• Impacts of Bush Encroachment on Wildlife Species Diversity, Composition, and Habitat Preference in Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya 

  Kavwele, Cyrus M.; Kimanzi, Johnstone K.; Kinyanjui, Mwangi J. (Hindawi, 2017)
• Spatial scales influence long-term response of herbivores to prescribed burning in a savanna ecosystem 

  Kimuyu, Duncan M.; Sensenig, Ryan L.; Chira, Robert M.; Githaiga, John M.; Young, Truman P. (CSIRO PUBLISHING, 2017-04)

  Both wild and prescribed fire in savanna ecosystems influence habitat use by herbivores by creating or maintaining spatial and temporal heterogeneity in forage quality and vegetation cover. Yet little is known about how ...
• Effects of dietary levels of essential oil (EO) extract from bitter lemon (Citrus limon) fruit peels on growth, biochemical, haemato-immunological parameters and disease resistance in Juvenile Labeo victorianus fingerlings challenged with Aeromonas hydrophila 

  Okoth, Elijah Oyoo; Muchiri, Mucai; Ngugi, Charles C. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2016-04)

  Essential oils (EOs) are used in the food industry because of their biological activity. We evaluated the effects of administration of essential oil (EO) extracted from bitter lemon (Citrus limon) fruit peels on the growth ...
• An African stingless bee Plebeina hildebrandti Friese nest size and design (Apidae, Meliponini 

  Namu, Flora N.; Wittmann, Dieter (2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd,, 2016)
• POPULATION ECOLOGY, DIET AND MOVEMENT OF STRAW-COLOURED FRUIT BATS (Eidolon helvum), WESTERN KENYA 

  Webala, Paul W.; Musila, Simon; Makau, Rogers (research gate, 2012-07)

  The population status, movement, roost-site selection and diet of straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) were studied over a seven-month period in western Kenya. Overall, the bat population fluctuated markedly from as ...
• Seed dispersal by Tana River mangabeys in fragmented gallery forests 

  Kimuyu, Duncan M.; Wahungu, Geoffrey M.; Otieno, Dennis O. (SciRes, 2012)
• Characterization of the nutritional quality of amaranth leaf protein concentrates and suitability of fish meal replacement in Nile tilapia feeds 

  Okoth, Elijah Oyoo; Ngugi, Charles C.; Manyala, Julius O.; Fitzsimmons, Kevin; Kimotho, Ann (Elsevier, 2017)

  A number of leafy vegetables,their protein concentrates and hydrolasates are under evaluation as alternative protein ingredients to fish meal(FM)in aqua feeds. This study evaluated the nutritional characteristics and ...
• Synergistic effects of fire and elephants on arboreal animals in an African savanna 

  Sensenig, Ryan L.; Pringle, Robert M.; Kimuyu, Duncan M.; Palmer, Todd M.; Corinna Riginos; Veblen, Kari E.; Young, Truman P. (British Ecological Society, 2015)
• Are stingless bees the primary vector in spread of banana Xanthomonas wilt in Central Uganda? 

  Namu, Flora, N.; Wittmann, Dieter (International Journal of Ecology and Ecosolution, 2014-09)

  Stingless bees were speculated to be the primary vectors in the spread of the bacterial agent responsible for banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) in Uganda. It was hypothesized that the vector entered the banana plant through ...

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