Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation: Recent submissions
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First Photographic Evidence of the Central African Oyan in Uganda
(African Journal of Ecology, 2024)Arboreal camera trap photographs were captured of the Central African Oyan Poiana richardsonii in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. In total, 10 photographs were obtained from three sites in the park in 2019. This ... -
The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks
(Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024)The density of wood is a key indicator of the carbon investment strategies of trees, impacting productivity and carbon storage. Despite its importance, the global variation in wood density and its environmental controls ... -
The moon’s influence on the activity of tropical forest mammals
(Proc. R. Soc. B, 2024)Changes in lunar illumination alter the balance of risks and opportunities for animals, influencing activity patterns and species interactions. We examined if and how terrestrial mammals respond to the lunar cycle in some ... -
A Survey of Hydrological Systems in the Great Virunga Landscape: Water resources assessment and use in and around Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Echuya Central Forest Reserve, S.W Uganda
(2015)The Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL) is an interconnected chain of eleven protected areas that straddle the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. The landscape is famous for its mountain gorillas ... -
The Impact of Tourism and Research Activity on Ape Health
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)Apes have fascinated humans since antiquity: several ancient myths and legends mention their existence (Russon, 2004). Over time, scientists, philosophers and others have made comparisons between humans and apes in efforts ... -
Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats
(Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2024-06-23)Aim: Ecological and anthropogenic factors shift the abundances of dominant and rare tree species within local forest communities, thus affecting species composition and ecosystem functioning. To inform forest and conservation ... -
Evidence of thermophilization in Afromontane forests
(Nature communications, 2024-07-10)Thermophilization is the directional change in species community composition towards greater relative abundances of species associated with warmer environments. This process is well-documented in temperate and Neotropical ... -
Predictive mapping of tree species assemblages in an African montane rainforest
(Biotropica, 2024)Conservation of mountain ecosystems can benefit from knowledge of habitats and their distribution patterns. This benefit is particularly true for diverse ecosystems with high conservation values such as the “Afromontane” ... -
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities
(Global Ecol Biogeogr, 2024)Linear regression models, we test three non- mutually exclusive hypotheses by comparing the relative importance of colonization time, palaeo-environmental changes in temperature and land cover since 3.3 Mya, contemporary ... -
Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment
(Conservation Letters, 2024)Conservation funding is currently limited; cost-effective conservation solutions are essential. We suggest that the thousands of field stations worldwide can play key roles at the frontline of biodiversity conservation and ... -
Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities
(Nature, 2024-01-10)Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as ... -
The politics of mourning in conservation conflicts: The (un) grievability of life and less-than-human geographies
(Political Geography, 2024)Accounts of conservation conflicts often reveal that people living around protected areas feel like their lives are less valued than animals’ lives —they are confined to ‘less-than-human geographies’. Recent literature on ... -
Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential
(Nature, 2023-11-13)Forests are a substantial terrestrial carbon sink, but anthropogenic changes in land use and climate have considerably reduced the scale of this system1. Remote-sensing estimates to quantify carbon losses from global ... -
Combining camera trap surveys and IUCN range maps to improve knowledge of species distributions
(Conservation Biology, 2023)Reliable maps of species distributions are fundamental for biodiversity research and conservation. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List range maps are widely recognized as authoritative ... -
Sex ratios, damage and distribution of Myrianthus holstii Engl.: a dioecious afromontane forest tree
(Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2023)Male and female dioecious tropical trees are subjected to distinct demands that may influence their ecology. An example is Myrianthus holstii Engl. that produces persistent fruit eaten by elephants and other large mammals ... -
Is Fair Benefit Sharing a Reality or A Fallacy? Implications for Effective Collaborative Forest Management at Echuya Central Forest Reserve, S. W. Uganda
(East African Journal of Forestry and Agroforestry, 2023)It is generally accepted that equitable benefits sharing from protected areas (PAs) is a probable technique for both sustainable management and PA conservation. Evidence however, suggests that this might not be entirely ... -
Seasonality in the equatorial tropics: Flower, fruit, and leaf phenology of montane trees in the highlands of Southwest Uganda
(Biotropica, 2023)Phenology influences many forest functions and can inform forest conservation and management, yet representative phenological data for most common tropical forest tree species remain sparse or absent. Between June 2011 and ... -
The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit
(Nature Plants, 2023-10-23)Understanding what controls global leaf type variation in trees is crucial for comprehending their role in terrestrial ecosystems, including carbon, water and nutrient dynamics. Yet our understanding of the factors influencing ... -
Conservation in a Region of Political Instability: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda
(Conservation Biology, 2000)Bwindi Impenetrable is the most important forest in Uganda for conservation of biodiversity. It contains over half the world’s mountain gorillas. It is surrounded by densely populated agricultural land and lies within a ...
