Student Projects
Publications
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Published Student Projects
Borneo
Jehle, R. & Arak, A. (1998) Graded call variation in the Asian Cricket Frog Rana nicobariensis. Bioacoustics 9:35-48. (Danum Valley 1995)
Johnson, S., Bose, A., Snaddon, J. & Moss, B. (2012) The role of earthworms in nitrogen and solute retention in a tropical forest in Sabah, Malaysia: a pilot study. Journal of Tropical Ecology 28:611-614. (Danum Valley 2010)
Kenya
Chepkwony, R., Maleko, D., Nambiza, W. & Mulatu, W.Z. (2012) Variation in Allocation of Mechanical Defence Resources in Acacia drepanalobium at Different Foraging Regimes around Hell’s Gate National Park, Kenya. Current Research Journal of Biological Sciences 4:225-228. (Naivasha 2007)
Coetzee, B., Tincani, L., Wodu, Z. and Mwasi, S. (2008) Overgrazing and bush encroachment by Tarchonanthus camphoratus in a semi-arid savanna. African Journal of Ecology 46:449-451. (Naivasha 2006)
Midgley, J., Sawe, T., Abanyam, P., Hintsa, K. & Gacheru, P. (2015) Spinescent East African savannah acacias also have thick bark, suggesting they evolved under both an intense fire and herbivory regime. African Journal of Ecology 54:118-120. (Segera 2013)
Midgley, J., Altayeb, H. & Mbosso, P. (2016) Further evidence that in African acacia, white is a warning colour to herbivores: the white pseudo-galls of Vachellia seyal. African Journal of Range & Forage Science DOI:10.2989/10220119.2016.1162196. (Segera 2013)
Rija, A.A., Mwamende, K.A. & Hassan, S.N. (2012) Notes on feeding habits of spider Nephila sp. in an acacia woodland stand, Kenya. Journal of Biological Research 30:59-62. (Naivasha 2006)
Madagascar
Bader, E., Acácio, M. & Monadjem, A. (2015) The importance of water bodies for insectivorous bats in a Malagasy dry deciduous forest: A case example from Kirindy (CNFEREF). Malagasy Nature 9:88-96. (Kirindy 2012)
de Winter, I.I., Gollner, A. & Akom, E. (2013) Diet overlap of Propithecus verreauxi and Eulemur rufifrons during the late dry season in Kirindy Forest. Lemur News 17:18-21. (Kirindy 2010)
Koch, H., Corcoran, C. & Jonker, M. (2011) Honeydew collecting in Malagasy stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) and observations on competition with invasive ants. African Entomology 19:36-41. (Kirindy 2009)
Lukasik, P. & Johnson, T. (2007) Arthropod communities and succession in baobab, Adansonia rubrostipa, fruits in a dry deciduous forest in Kirindy Forest Reserve, Madagascar. African Entomology 15:214–220. (Kirindy 2004)
Tanzania
Braendle, C., Hockley, N., Brevig, T., Shingleton, A.W. & Keller, L. (2003) Size-correlated division of labour and spatial distribution of workers in the driver ant, Dorylus molestus. Naturwissenschaften 90:277–281. (Amani 1998)
Corbin, C.E. & Kirika M.J. (2002) Foraging behaviour of brown-hooded kingfishers (Halcyon albiventris) in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. African Zoology 37:47-54. (Amani 1999)
Garner, T.W.J., Nishimura, D., Antwi, J. & Oliver, N. (2008) Human disturbance influences behaviour and local density of juvenile frogs. Ethology 114:1006–1013. (Amani 2006)
Graw, B., Merl, M., Provvedi, S., Moss, B. & Wagner, T. (2005) Habitat ecology of three different species of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Entomologische Zeitschrift 115:211-216. (Amani 2003)
Lekunze, L.M. & Hassan, M.M. (2001) Mistletoe (Tapinanthus bangwensis Reichenbach) infestation of indigenous and non-indigenous trees at Amani Nature Reserve, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 39:93-97. (Amani 1999)
Norfolk, O., Sadiki, L.L., Broughton, B., Otieno, M. & Nuttman, C. (2012) Tea breaks: how flower visitors can benefit from unplanned floral buffer strips in a Tanzanian tea plantation. African Journal of Ecology 51:380-384. (Amani 2009)
Starnberger, I., Kamminga, P., Fosah, V.C. & Nuttman, C. (2011) The ‘push-up’ as a calling posture in Nectophrynoides tornieri (Anura: Bufonidae) in the Amani Nature Reserve, Tanzania. Herpetologica 67:124-134. (Amani 2009)
van Biervliet, O., Wiśniewski, K., Daniels, J. & Vonesh, J. (2009) Effects of tea plantations on stream invertebrates in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot in Africa. Biotropica 41:469-475. (Amani 2007)
Uganda
Chege, H.N. & Nagasha, B. (2013) Effect of Forest Logging Practices on Carbon Stock Recovery in Kibale Forest National Park, Kanyawara, Uganda. Baraton Interdisplinary Research Journal 3:29-37. (Kibale 2012)
Compton, S.G., Grehan, K. & van Noort, S. (2009) A fig crop pollinated by three or more species of agaonid fig wasps. African Entomology 17:215-222. (Kibale 2004)
Desta, H.T., Dzakpasu, P.N., Lyonga, N.M. (2016) Patterns of Sunbird (Family: Nectariniidae) Visitation to Four Sympatric Plant Species in Kibale National Park, Uganda. International Journal of Molecular Evolution and Biodiversity 6, 3 doi: 10.5376/ijmeb.2016.06.0003. (Kibale 2014)
Fisher, D., Macleod, A., Melgar, J. & Nuttman, C. (2017) Determinants of contests in female Ugandan ground nesting bees (Tetralonia sp. nov.). African Entomology 25:319-327. (Kibale 2010)
Lens, L., Nasirwa, O., Nemeth, E. & Bennun, L. (1996) Response to simulated intrusions by territorial Yellow-whiskered Greenbuls. Ibis 138:561-563. (Kibale 1994)
Maiditsch, I. , Liedtke, H.C., Ng’wava, J. & Hödl, W. (2011) Advertisement and close-range encounter call of Arthroleptis schubotzi Nieden, 1911, with notes on phonotaxis and sexual dimorphism in the third manual digit (Anura: Arthroleptidae). Herpetozoa 24:23-31. (Kibale 2010)
Monadjem, A., Ellstrom, M., Maldonado, C. & Fasel, N. (2010) The activity of an insectivorous bat Neoromicia nana on tracks in logged and unlogged forest in tropical Africa. African Journal of Ecology 48:1083-1091. (Kibale 2009)
Monadjem, A., Rasmussen, M. & van der Made, D.C. (2011) Echolocation calls and wing morphology of selected bats in western Uganda. Durban Museum Novitates 34:29-34. (Kibale 2004)
Quintero, E., Genzoni, E., Mann, N., Nuttman, C. & Anderson, B. (2017) Sunbird surprise: Testing the usefulness of the syndrome concept. Flora 232:22-29. (Kibale 2014)
Remmers, W., Gameiro, J., Schaberl, I & Clausnitzer, V. (2016) Elephant (Loxodonta africana) footprints as habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in Kibale National Park, south-west Uganda. African Journal of Ecology, First published: 23 August 2016, DOI: 10.1111/aje.12358. (Kibale 2014)
Simon, G.S., Fundi, P. Berrill, M. & Njoroge, C.H. (2016) Pre-dispersal Seed Handling Treatment by Five Sympatric Non-human Primates in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Science Letters 4:84-91. (Kibale 2012)
Stanley, D., Otieno, M., Steijven, K., Berlin, E.S., Piiroinen, T., Willmer, P. & Nuttman, C. (2016) Pollination ecology of Desmodium setigerum (Fabaceae) in Uganda: do big bees do it better? Journal of Pollination Ecology 19:43-49. (Kibale 2009)
Publications by TBA Staff & Course Teachers
(arising from data collected on TBA courses)
De Vries, P.J. (2002) Differential wing toughness in distasteful and palatable butterflies: direct evidence supports unpalatable theory. Biotropica 34:176-181.
De Vries, P.J. (2003) Tough African Models and Weak mimics: New Horizons in the Evolution of bad taste. Journal of Lepidopterists’ Society 57:235-238.
Dominy, N.J., Grubb, P.J., Jackson , R.V., Lucas, P.W., Metcalfe, D.J., Svenning, J-C. & Turner, I.M. (2008) In Tropical Lowland Rain Forests Monocots have Tougher Leaves than Dicots, and Include a New Kind of Tough Leaf. Annals of Botany 101:1363–1377.
Fisher, B., Balmford, A., Green, R.E. & Trevelyan, R. (2009) Conservation science training: the need for an extra dimension. Oryx 43:361-363.
Franks, N.R., Sendova-Franks, A.B., Simmons, J. & Mogie, M. (1999) Convergent Evolution, Superefficient Teams and Tempo in Old and New World Army Ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences 266:1697-1701.
Franzen, M., Jones, J., Raselimanana, A. P., Nagy, Z. T., D’Cruze, N., Glaw, F., & Vences, M. (2009) A new black-bellied snake (Pseudoxyrhophiinae: Liophidium) from western Madagascar, with notes on the genus Pararhadinaea. Amphibia-Reptilia 31:1-11.
Grubb, P.J. & Jackson, R.V. (2007) The adaptive value of young leaves being tightly folded or rolled on monocotyledons in tropical lowland rain forest: an hypothesis in two parts. Plant Ecology 192:317–327.
Grubb, P.J., Jackson, R.V., Barberis, I.M., Bee, J.N., Coomes, D.A., Dominy, N.J. , De la Fuente, M.A., Lucas, P.W., Metcalfe, D.J., Svenning, J-C., Turner, I.M. & Vargas, O. (2008) Monocot Leaves are Eaten Less than Dicot Leaves in Tropical Lowland Rain Forests: Correlations with Toughness and Leaf Presentation. Annals of Botany 101:1379–1389.
Hassan, S.M.S., Idris, E. & Majerus, M.E.N. (2012) Male-killer dynamics in Danaus chrysippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in East Africa. African Journal of Ecology 50:489-499.
Howe, A., Lovei, G.L. & Nachman, G. (2009) Dummy caterpillars as a simple method to assess predation rates on invertebrates in a tropical agroecosystem. Entomologica Experimentalis et Applicata 131:325-329.
Koch, H. (2010) Combining morphology and DNA barcoding resolves the taxonomy of Western Malagasy Liotrigona Moure, 1961 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). African Invertebrates 51:413-421. (Kirindy 2009)
Midgley, J. (2009) Euphorbia candelabrum juveniles are nursed by spinescent shrubs in short-grass areas of Queen Elizabeth Park, Uganda. African Journal of Ecology 47:788-789. (Kibale 2007)
Moss, B. (2005) Rapid shredding of leaves by crabs in a tropical African stream. Verhandlungen international der Vereingung theoretische und angewande Limnologie 29:147-150. (Amani 2003)
Ollerton, J. & Nuttman, C. (2013) Aggressive displacement of Xylocopa nigrita carpenter bees from flowers of Lagenaria sphaerica (Cucurbitaceae) by territorial male Eastern Olive Sunbirds (Cyanomitra olivacea) in Tanzania. Journal of Pollination Ecology 11:21-26. (Amani 2011)
Patrick, D.A., Shirk, P., Vonesh, J.R. Harper, E.B. & Howell, K.M. (2011) Abundance and roosting ecology of chameleons in the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania and the potential effects of harvesting. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6:422-431. (Amani 2009)
Quicke, D.L.J., Laurenne, N.M. & Barclay, M. (2005) Host, host location and aggressive behaviour in a tropical wood-borer parasitoid genus Monilobracon Quicke (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), parasitoids of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera) in Kibale Forest National Park, West Uganda. African Entomology 13:213-220.
Quicke, D.L.J., Mori, M., Zaldivar-Riveron, A., Laurenne, N.M. & Shaw, M.R. (2006) Suspended mummies in Aleoides species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Roganidae) with description of six new species from western Uganda based largely on DNA sequence data. Journal of Natural History 40:2663-2680.
Trevelyan, R. & Nuttman, C. (2008) The importance of training national and international scientists for conservation research. In Science and Conservation in African Forests: The Benefits of Long-term Research. Ed: Richard Wrangham and Elizabeth Ross. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Willmer, P., Stanley , D.A., Steijven, K., Matthews, I.M. & Nuttman, C.V. (2009) Bidirectional flower colour and shape changes allow a second opportunity for pollination. Current Biology 19:919-923.
Published papers resulting from the Darwin project on invasive species
Dawson, W., Burslem, D.F.R.P. & Hulme, P.E. (2009) Herbivory is related to taxonomic isolation, but not to invasiveness of tropical alien plants. Diversity and Distribution 15:141–147.
Dawson, W., Burslem, D.F.R.P. & Hulme, P.E. (2009) The suitability of weed risk assessment as a conservation tool to identify invasive plant threats in East African rainforests. Biological Conservation 142:1018–1024.
Dawson, W., Burslem, D.F.R.P. & Hulme, P.E. (2009) Factors explaining alien plant invasion success in a tropical ecosystem differ at each stage of invasion. Journal of Ecology 97:657-665.
Dawson, W., Burslem, D.F.R.P. & Hulme, P.E. (2011) The comparative importance of species traits and introduction characteristics in tropical plant invasions. Diversity and Distributions 17:1111-1121.
Dawson, W., Mndolwa, A.S., Burslem, D.F.R.P. & Hulme, P.E. (2008) Assessing the risks of plant invasions arising from collections in tropical botanical gardens Biodiversity and Conservation, 17:1979-1995.
Edward, E., Munishi, P.K.T. & Hulme, P.E. (2009) The Invasion of Humid Tropical Forests by Cordia alliodora (Boraginaceae): Relative Roles of Disturbance, Biotic Resistance and Propagule Pressure. Biotropica 41:171–178.
Hulme, P.E., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Dawson, W., Edward, E., Richard, J. & Trevelyan, R. (2013) Aliens in the Arc: Are Invasive Trees a Threat to the Montane Forests of East Africa? In Plant Invasions in Protected Areas: Patterns, Problems and Challenges. Eds. L.C. Foxcroft et al. Invading Nature – Springer Series in Invasion Ecology 7, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7750-7_8, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
Other
(arising from funding from TBA)
Kawaka, F., Obwanga, B., Daniel Miyawa, D. & Gaya, H. (2014) Epiphytic orchids of Kericho Forest, Kenya. Advances in Research 2:462-468.
Tuyisingize, D., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Bronner, G.N. & Stoinski, T.S. (2013) Small mammal community composition in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Bonn Zoological Bulletin 62:177–185.