Research Bibliography for Mpala Research Centre

Publications & Reports (Alphabetical Listing):
[Chronological Listing also available]

1. Augustine, D.J. 2002. Large herbivores and process dynamics in a managed savanna ecosystem. Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University.
2. Augustine, D.J. 2003. Long-term, livestock-mediated redistribution of nitrogen and phosphorus in an East African savanna. Journal of Applied Ecology 40:137-149.
3. Augustine, D.J. 2003 Spatial heterogeneity in the herbaceous layer of a semi-arid savanna ecosystem. Plant Ecology 167:319-332.
4. Bailis R., M. Ezzati & D.M. Kammen. 2002. An estimate of greenhouse gas emissions from common Kenyan cookstoves under conditions of actual use. The Proceedings of Indoor Air 2002: the 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate; Monterey, CA, July 2002, 2: 225-230.
5. Bailis R., M. Ezzati, and D.M. Kammen. 2003. Greenhouse gas implications of household energy technology in Kenya. Environ Sci Technol 37:2051-2059.
6. Comstock, K., N. Georgiadis, J. Pecon-Slattery, A. Roca, E. A. Ostrander, S. J. O’Brien & S. K. Wasser. 2002. Patterns of molecular genetic variation among African elephant populations. Molecular Ecology 11:2489-2498.
7. Ezenwa, V. O. 2003. Habitat overlap and gastrointestinal parasitism in African bovids. Parasitology: 126: 379-388.
8. Ezenwa, V. O. 2003. The effects of time of day on the prevalence of coccidian oocysts in antelope faecal samples. African Journal of Ecology 41: 192-193.
9. Ezenwa, V. O. 2004. Parasite infection rates of impala (Aepyceros melampus) in fenced game reserves in relation to reserve characteristics. Biological Conservation, in press.
10. Ezzati M. & D.M. Kammen. 2002. Indoor air pollution from biomass combustion as a risk factor for respiratory infections in Kenya. The Proceedings of Indoor Air 2002: the 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate; Monterey, CA, July 2002, 4: 970-975.
11. Ezzati M., D.M. Kammen & B.H. Singer. 1999. The health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution from biofuel stoves in rural Kenya. The Proceedings of Indoor Air 99: the 8th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate; Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1999, 3: 130-135.
12. Ezzati, M & Kammen DM. 2001. Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries. Environ Health Persp 109:481-488.
13. Ezzati, M. & D.M. Kammen . 2002. Evaluating the health benefits of transitions in household energy technologies in Kenya. Energy Policy 30:815-826.
14. Ezzati, M. & D.M. Kammen. 2001. Indoor air pollution from biomass combustion as a risk factor for acute respiratory infections in Kenya: an exposure-response study. Lancet 358:619-624. [See also Lancet 358:1104-1104 (2001)]
15. Ezzati, M. & D.M. Kammen. 2002. Household energy, indoor air pollution and health in developing countries: Knowledge base for effective interventions. Annual Review Of Energy And The Environment 27:233-270.
16. Ezzati, M. 2000. Energy technology, indoor air pollution, and respiratory infections in developing countries. A field study from Kenya. Ph.D. Diss., Princeton University.
17. Ezzati, M., B.M. Mbinda & D.M. Kammen. 2000. Comparison of emissions and residential exposure from traditional and improved cookstoves in Kenya. Environmental Science and Technology 34:578-583.
18. Ezzati, M., D.M. Kammen . 2002. The health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution from solid fuels in developing countries: Knowledge, gaps, and data needs. Environmental Health Perspectives 110:1057-1068.
19. Ezzati, M., H. Saleh & D.M. Kammen. 2000. The contributions of emission and spatial microenvironments to exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion in Kenya. Environmental Health Perspectives 108:833-839.
20. Frank, L.G. & R. Woodroffe. 2001. Behavior of carnivores in exploited and controlled populations. Pp. 419-442 in: Carnivore Conservation: Proc. Symp. Zool. Soc. London. Ed: D. McDonald, R.K. Wayne & S. Funk.
21. Gadd, M.E. 2003. Ecology and conservation of elephants in African rangelands. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis.
22. Gadd, M.E., T.P. Young & T.M. Palmer. 2001. Effects of simulated shoot and leaf herbivory in Acacia drepanolobium. Oikos 92:515-521.
23. Georgiadis, N. & J.G.N. Olwero. 2002. Estimating wildlife numbers within management subunits from sample survey data. Unpublished report.
24. Georgiadis, N., M. Hack & K. Turpin. 2003. The influence of rainfall on zebra population dynamics: implications for management. Journal of Applied Ecology 40:125-136.
25. Georgiadis, N. & J.G.N. Olwero. 2003. EIRS: The Ewaso Incident Reporting System. Unpublished report.
26. Georgiadis, N. & J.G.N. Olwero. 2003. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index: A substitute for rainfall in models describing consumer dynamics. Unpublished report.
27. Georgiadis, N. & Ojwang’, G. 1997 a, b, 1999, 2001. Laikipia sample survey report. Unpublished report.
28. Georgiadis, N. 1996. Laikipia total wildlife count report. Unpublished report.
29. Georgiadis, N., J.G.N. Olwero & G. Ojwang’. 2003. Laikipia sample survey report.
30. Georgiadis, N., J.G.N. Olwero & P. Niederer. 2003. Production dynamics along an equatorial rainfall gradient: inferences from the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. Unpublished report.
31. Hack, M.A. & D.I. Rubenstein. 1998. Zebra zones. Natural History March, pp. 27-31.
32. Hahn N.E., D. Proulx, P.M. Muruthi, S. Alberts & J. Altmann. 2003. Gastrointestinal parasites in free-ranging Kenyan baboons (Papio cynocephalus and P. anubis). International Journal of Primatology 24: 271-279.
33. Huntzinger, P.M., R. Karban, T.P. Young & T.M. Palmer. 2004. Relaxation of induced indirect defenses of acacias following removal of mammalian herbivores. Ecology, in press.
34. Isbell LA, J.D. Pruetz, B.M. Nzuma, et al. 1999. Comparing measures of travel distances in primates: Methodological considerations and socioecological implications. Am J Primatol 48:87-98.
35. Isbell, L.A. & J. Pruetz. 1998. Differences between vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) in agonistic interactions between adult females. International Journal of Primatology 19:837-855.
36. Isbell, L.A. 1998. Diet for a small primate: insectivory and gummivory in the (large) patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas). American Journal of Primatology 45:381-398.
37. Isbell, L.A., J. Pruetz, M. Lewis & T.P. Young. 1998. Locomotor activity differences between sympatric vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas): implications for the evolution of hind limb length in Homo. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105:199-207.
38. Isbell, L.A., J.D. Pruetz & T.P. Young. 1998. Movements of vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) as estimators of resource size, density, and distribution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 42:123-133.
39. Isbell, L.A., J.D. Pruetz, M. Lewis, & T.P. Young 1999. Rank differences in ecological behavior: a comparative study of patas monkeys and vervets. Internatl J Primatol 20: 257-272.
40. Juang P., H. Oki, Y. Wang, M. Martonosi, L.S. Peh, & D.I. Rubenstein. 2002. Energy-efficient computing for wildlife tracking: Design tradeoffs and early experiences with ZebraNet. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 37:96-107.
41. Kammen D.M., M. Ezzati & B.M. Mbinda. 1999. The determinants of exposure to indoor air pollution from biofuel stoves in rural Kenya. The Proceedings of Indoor Air 99: the 8th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate; Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1999, 3: 171-176.
42. Keesing, F. & T. Crawford. 2001. Impacts of density and large mammals on space use by the pouched mouse (Saccostomus mearnsi) in central Kenya. J Trop Ecol 17:465-472.
43. Keesing, F. 1998. Ecology and behavior of the pouched mouse, Saccostomys mearnsi, in central Kenya. Journal of Mammalogy 79:919-931.
44. Keesing, F. 1998. Impacts of ungulates on the demography and diversity of small mammals in central Kenya. Oecologia 116:381-389.
45. Keesing, F. 2000. Cryptic consumers and the ecology of an African savanna. BioScience 50:205-215.
46. Keesing, F.L. 1997. Ecological interactions between small mammals, large mammals, and vegetation in a tropical savanna of central Kenya. Ph.D. Diss., University of California at Berkeley.
47. Khaemba, W.M., A. Stein, D. Rasch, J. De Leeuw & N. Georgiadis. 2001. Empirically simulated study to compare and validate sampling methods used in aerial surveys of wildlife populations. African Journal Of Ecology 39:374-382.
48. Laurent, P., A. Hamdani, J.-C. Braekman, D. Daloze, L.A. Isbell. J.-C. de Biseau & J.M. Pasteels. 2003. New 1-alk(en)yl-1,3,5-trihydroxycyclohexanes from the Dufour gland of the African ant Crematogaster nigriceps. Tetrahedron Letters 44:1383-1386.
49. Lyons, E.E. 2000. Biodiversity studies at Mpala Research Centre: Impacts of ants on growth and reproduction of Acacia drepanolobium. Pg. 167 in: A. Ng'eny-Mengech, ed. 1998-1999 ICIPE Annual Scientific Report. International Centre for Insects Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi.
50. . McClanahan, T.R. & T.P. Young. 1996. East African Ecosystems and their Conservation. Oxford University Press, New York.
51. McNaughton S. J., N. R. H. Stronach, & N. J. Georgiadis. 1997. Combustion in natural fires and global emissions budgets. Ecological Applications 8:464-468.
52. Metz M.R. & F. Keesing. 2001. Dietary choices of the pouched mouse (Saccostomus mearnsi) and their consequences for savanna vegetation. Biotropica 33: 182-187.
53. Miller, S.E. 2000. Biodiversity studies at Mpala Research Centre: Inventory of moths (Lepidoptera). Pp. 166-167 in: A. Ng'eny-Mengech, ed. 1998-1999 ICIPE Annual Scientific Report. International Centre for Insects Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi.
54. Miller, S.E., & J.D. Lazell. 2003. A herpetological reconnaissance of Mpala Research Centre, Laikipia, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 90:103-107 ("2001").
55. Misurelli, D. 2002. Large ungulate impacts on bird populations in an East African savannah. Masters Diss., SUNY Albany.
56. Mugo, J.K. 2000. Biological nitrogen fixation in Acacia drepanolobium. MSc Diss., Department of Botany, University of Nairobi.
57. Muruthi, P.M. 1997. Socioecological correlates of parental care and demography in savanna baboons. PhD. Diss. Princeton University, 184 pp.
58. Odadi, W. 2002. Cattle foraging behaviour: the influence of large mammalian herbivory in an acacia savanna, Laikipia, Kenya. MSc Diss., Moi University.
59. Ogada, M.O. 2001. Effects of livestock husbandry practices on livestock depredation by large carnivores in Laikipia District, Kenya. M.Sc. Dissertation, Kenyatta University.
60. Ogada, M. O., R. Woodroffe, N. O. Oguge & L. Frank. 2003. Limiting depredation by African carnivores: the role of livestock husbandry. Conservation Biology 17:1521-1530.
61. Ojwang, G. 2000. On sampling variability of wildlife cropping-quota allocated on the basis of airborne sample surveys. M.Sc. Diss. ITC, Wageningen, Netherlands.
62. Ojwang’, G. & N.J. Georgiadis. 2002. Software for analysis of systematic sample surveys of the Ewaso Ecosystem: Users Manual. Unpublished report.
63. Okello, B.D. & T.P. Young. 2000. Effects of fire, bruchid beetles and soil type on the germination and seedling establishment of Acacia drepanolobium. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 17:46-51.
64. Okello, B.D. 2002. Effects of herbivores, fire and harvesting on the population dynamics of Acacia drepanolobium Sjoestedt in Laikipia, Kenya. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Natal, South Africa.
65. Okello, B.D., T.G. O’Connor & T.P. Young. 2001.Growth, biomass estimates, and charcoal production of Acacia drepanolobium in Laikipia, Kenya. Forest Ecology and Management 142:143-153.
66. Palmer, T.M. 2001. Factors influencing species coexistence in a guild of African acacia ants. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis.
67. Palmer, T.M. 2003. Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences competition and coexistence in an African acacia ant guild. Ecology 84:2843-2855.
68. Palmer, T.M., M.L. Stanton & T.P. Young. 2002. Burning bridges: Priority effects and the persistence of a competitively subordinate acacia-ant in Laikipia, Kenya. Oecologia 133:372-379.
69. Palmer, T.M., T.P. Young & M.L. Stanton. 2000. Short-term dynamics of an acacia ant community. Oecologia 123:425-435.
70. Palmer, T.M, M.L. Stanton, and T.P. Young. 2003. Competition and coexistence: exploring mechanisms that restrict and maintain diversity within mutualist guilds. American Naturalist 72:347-363.
71. Paton, S. & Ogada, M. O. 2000. 1998-2000 Meteorological & Hydrological Summary for Mpala Research Centre.
72. Pruetz, J.D. 1999. Socioecology of adult female vervet (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) in Kenya: food availability, feeding competition, and dominance relationships. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
73. Pruetz, J.D., & L.A. Isbell. 2000. Correlations of food distribution and patch size with agonistic interactions in female vervets (Chlorocebus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) living in simple habitats. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 49:38-47.
74. Roca, A., N. Georgiadis, J. Slattery & S. O’Brien. 2001. Genetic evidence for two species of elephant in Africa. Science 293: 1473-1477.
75. Sankaran, M. & D. Augustine. 2004. Large herbivores suppress decomposer abundance in a semi-arid grazing ecosystem. Ecology, in press.
76. Shaw, M.T., F. Keesing, & R.S. Ostfeld. 2002. Herbivory on Acacia seedlings in an East African savanna. Oikos 98:385-392.
77. Snelling R.R. 2000. Biodiversity studies at Mpala Research Centre: Inventory of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pg. 167 in: A. Ng'eny-Mengech, ed. 1998-1999 ICIPE Annual Scientific Report. International Centre for Insects Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi.
78. Stanton, M.L, T.M. Palmer & T.P. Young. 2002. Tradeoffs between competition and colonization at two stages of colony development within a guild of African acacia-ants. Ecological Monographs 72:347-363.
79. Stanton, M.L. & T.P. Young. 1999. Ant defenders and pretenders. Natural History November, pp. 28-31.
80. Stanton, M.L., T.M. Palmer, T.P. Young, A. Evans & M.L. Turner. 1999. Sterilization and canopy modification of a swollen thorn acacia by a plant-ant. Nature 401:578-580.
81. Stewart, D. 1996 Creatures wild and wonderful thrive at a living lab in Kenya. Smithsonian 1996 (May): 101-113.
82. Stone, G.N., N.E. Raine, P. Prescott & P.G. Willmer. 2003. The pollination ecology of Acacia. Australian Systematic Botany 16:103-118.
83. Takata, S. Behavioural ecology of mongooses. Ph.D. Diss. University of California, Berkeley.
84. Thouless, C., N.J. Georgiadis & J.G.N. Olwero. 2002. A wildlife fencing strategy for Laikipia. Unpublished report.
85. Vogel, G. 2001. African elephant species splits in two. News of the Week. Science 293:1414.
86. Wambuguh, Oscar 1998. Local communities and wildlife: A spatial analysis of human-wildlife interactions in Laikipia District, Kenya, PhD. Diss. University of California, Berkeley. 355 pp..
87. Ward, D. & T.P. Young. 2002. Effects of large mammalian herbivores and ant symbionts on condensed tannins of Acacia drepanolobium in Kenya. Journal of Chemical Ecology 28:913-929.
88. Wood W.F., T.M. Palmer & M.L. Stanton. 2002. A comparison of volatiles in mandibular glands from three Crematogaster ant symbionts of the whistling thorn acacia. Biochem Syst Ecol 30:217-222.
89. Young, T.P. & A.P. Smith. 1989. Report on Mpala Farm as a possible research centre. Unpublished report.
90. Young, T.P. 1997. Key to the trees and shrubs of Laikipia. Typescript.
91. Young, T.P. & L.A. Isbell. 1997. Vegetative key to the trees and shrubs of Mpala/Segera. Typescript.
92. Young, T.P. & B.D. Okello. 1998. Relaxation of an induced defense after exclusion of herbivores: spines on Acacia drepanolobium. Oecologia 115:508-513.
93. Young, T.P. 1995. Landscape mosaics created by canopy gaps, forest edges, and bushland glades. Selbeyana 16:127-134.
94. Young, T.P. 1999. Restoration ecology and conservation biology. Biological Conservation 92:73-93.
95. Young, T.P., B.D. Okello, D. Kinyua & T.M Palmer. 1998. KLEE: the Kenya long-term exclosure experiment. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 14:94-102.
96. Young, T.P., C.H. Stubblefield & L.A. Isbell. 1997. Ants on swollen-thorn acacias: species coexistence in a simple system. Oecologia 109:98-107.
97. Young, T.P., M.L. Stanton & C. Christian. 2003. Effects of natural and artificial herbivory on spine lengths in Acacia drepanolobium. Oikos, 101:171-179
98. Young, T.P., N. Patridge & A. Macrae. 1995. Long-term glades in acacia bushland and their edge effects in Laikipia, Kenya. Ecological Applications 5:97-108.
99. Young, T.P., M.L. Stanton & C. Christian. 2003. Effects of natural and artificial herbivory on spine lengths in Acacia drepanolobium. Oikos 101:171-179.