Research Articles: Recent submissions
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African golden cats, citizen science, and serendipity: tapping the camera trap revolution
(South African Journal of Wildlife Research-24-month delayed open access, 2013)The use of camera traps for wildlife research and monitoring is increasing and this is yielding significant observations at an accelerating pace. Yet many potentially valuable observations are overlooked, misinterpreted ... -
A preliminary assessment of large mammal and bird use of different habitats in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(African Journal of Ecology, 2011)Understanding species distributions, habitat requirements, and population trends is helpful for implementing effective conservation. But expense often prevents such evaluations. Here, we present a preliminary assessment ... -
A new Automated Behavioural Response system to integrate playback experiments into camera trap studies
(Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2017)1. How animals respond to anthropogenic disturbances is a core component of conservation biology and how they respond to predators and competitors is equally of central importance to wildlife ecology. Camera traps have ... -
A variable edge effect on trees of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, and its bearing on measurement parameters
(Biological Conservation, 2009-01-21)With tropical forests under increased pressure from fragmentation and nascent effects of climate change, it is imperative to reliably predict change for timely reduction of impacts. This depends on measuring the right ... -
A Survey of Burnt Areas in Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga Gorilla National Parks, S. W. Uganda
(2001)Fire has been one of the main management challenges and is considered one of the major long term threats to forest biodiversity in Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga Gorilla National Parks. In June, July and August 2000 fire ... -
Variability of Soil Organic Carbon stocks under different land uses: A study in an afro-montane landscape in southwestern Uganda
(Geoderma, 2013)We explore and compare quantities and patterns of Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) in protected forest and neighboring land around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (a mountain protected area in Southwestern Uganda). We assessed ... -
Dynamics of forest cover conversion in and around Bwindi impenetrable forest, Southwestern Uganda
(Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2011)Forest cover has been converted to agricultural land use in and around the protected areas of Uganda. The objectives of this study were; to examine the dynamics of forest cover change in and around Bwindi impenetrable ... -
Cryptosporidium and giardia species in newly and previously habituated gorillas and nearby water sources in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2019-10)Introduction: cryptosporidium and giardia are of great one health significance and major cause of protozoan diarrhea in humans and primates; they are found in the faecal matter of animals and humans and also in contaminated ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Links between anthropogenic perturbations and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in Afromontane forest streams in Uganda
(Springer 2006, 2006-03)Relationships between environmental variables and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages were investigated among several sites that varied in disturbance history in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, an Afromontane site in ... -
Local People’s Attitudes And New Demands Since Inception Of Multiple Use Programme In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S. W. Uganda
(publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication, 2004-08)Since the inception of multiple use programme in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) in 1994, many changes have taken place. Local community demands for resources from the park have changed and evidently the programme ... -
Long Term changes in Africa’s Rift Valley: impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems.
(publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/21646, 2014-06)In 2000, MacArthur Foundation identified the Albertine Rift as an area of global importance for biodiversity conservation and it became a focal region for our Conservation and Sustainable Development program. We supported ... -
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 ... -
On the scaling of activity in tropical forest mammals
(www.oikosjournal.org, 2020-05)Activity range – the amount of time spent active per day – is a fundamental aspect contributing to the optimization process by which animals achieve energetic balance. Based on their size and the nature of ... -
Pangolins in global camera trap data: Implications for ecological monitoring
(journal homepage:http://www.elsevier.com/locate/gecco, 2019)Despite being heavily exploited, pangolins (Pholidota: Manidae) have been subject to limited research, resulting in a lack of reliable population estimates and standardized survey methods for the eight extant species. ... -
Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees
(Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2018-11-05)Large tropical trees form the interface between ground and airborne observations,offering a unique opportunity to capture forest properties remotely and to investigate their variations on broad scales. However, ... -
Bamboo for people, Mountain gorillas, and golden monkeys: Evaluating harvest and conservation trade-offs and synergies in the Virunga Volcanoes
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation,, 2011-10-10)There are conflicting demands on bamboo (Yushania alpina(K. Schum.) Lin.) in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (Virunga Volcanoes), Uganda. Local people lost legal access to bamboo when the park was gazetted in 1991 – but ... -
Linking Protected Area Conservation with Poverty Alleviation In Uganda: Integrated Conservation And Development at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(Nova Science Publishers, 2013)This chapter we seek to review the Ugandan context of conservation-poverty linkages and evaluate ICD at Bwindi as a tool for achieving conservation through poverty alleviation. By identifying lessons learnt from Uganda and ... -
An Assessment of the Effectiveness ofNkuringoBufferZone in MitigatingCrop Raiding Incidencesaround Bwindi ImpenetrableNational Park, S.W. Uganda
(Mbarara University of Science and Technology, 2015-03)In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP), a buffer zone strategy was introduced in Nkuringo(southern BINP)in 2005to counter wild animal crop raiding incidences and to generate in come for adjacent local people. This ...
