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Hydrological Systems in the Greater Virunga Landscape: Water Quality around Mikeno Sector
(Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY), 2016-03)
Monitoring of environmental parameters is one of the highest priorities in the evaluation of environmental status of water resources and in environmental protection policy. The main objectives are to understand and ...
Matrix population models indicate that bark harvest oftwo medicinal plants in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is sustainable
(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/, 2016-05)
Balancing forest conservation with resource extraction by local people is challenging. In the mountain forests of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, this was addressed by permitting regulated access to certain ...
Annual cycles are the most common reproductive strategy in African tropical tree communities
(Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust, 2018-03-27)
This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved ABSTRACT We present the first cross continental comparison of the flowering and fruiting phenology of tropical forests across Africa. Flowering events of 5446 ...
Dental Macrowear in Catarrhine Primates: variability across species
(publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication, 2018-04)
Dental macrowear is caused by a cumulative loss of enamel and dentine, principally due to attrition and abrasion, reflecting the interaction between feeding behavior and a species’ environment [1,2]. Previous studies have ...
A local assessment of the impacts of fifteen years of BMCT interventions
(BWINDI MGAHINGA CONSERVATION TRUST, 2013)
This Assessment Project was solicited by the Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust (BMCT, hereafter referred to as the Trust) to examine impacts of Trust interventions in the Bwindi and Mgahinga Conservation Area (BMCA) and ...
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Nkuringo Buffer Zone in Mitigating Crop Raiding Incidences around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S.W. Uganda.
(2015)
In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP), a buffer zone strategy was introduced in Nkuringo (southern BINP) in 2005 to counter wild animal crop raiding incidences and to generate income for adjacent local people. This ...
Drivers and Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the GVL.
(2019)
This study was undertaken under the Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC) involving three partner states of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda. The collaborative transboundary framework of ...
Linking Conservation, Equity and Poverty Alleviation: Understanding profiles and motivations of resource users and local perceptions of governance at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014-08)
Biodiversity conservation that contributes towards poverty alleviation is a priority under the 2011–2020 Strategic Plan for the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD). Protected areas are important for CBD signatories ...
Harvesting of wild climbers, food security and ecological implications in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S.W uganda
(Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust, 2019-01)
Humans have harvested wild climbers from forests for subsistence and commercial use for thousands of years. In the early four decades, wild climbers were considered a “nuisance” by foresters claiming they suppressed timber ...
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests
(Global biodiversity and productivity, 2016-10-10)
The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis and its impacts on ecosystem functioning. Understanding BPR is critical for the accurate valuation and ...