Wildlife populations are declining severely in many protected areas and unprotected pastoral areas of Africa. Rapid large-scale land use changes, poaching, climate change, rising population pressures, governance, policy, economic and socio-cultural transformations and competition with livestock a...
Ogutu, Joseph O.
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Piepho, Hans-Peter
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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Kifugo, S.C.
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[Herbivore dynamics and range contraction in Kajiado County Kenya: Climate and land use changes, population pressures, governance, policy and human-wildlife conflicts]
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Herbivore dynamics and range contraction in Kajiado County Kenya: Climate and land use changes, population pressures, governance, policy and human-wildlife conflicts
Rising human population and the associated demand for more land, water and other natural resources are intensifying conflicts between people and wildlife worldwide. We investigated the nature, intensity, seasonality, spatial and temporal patterns in human–hippo conflict incidences reported from w...
Kanga, E.M.
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Ogutu, Joseph O.
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Piepho, Hans-Peter
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Olff, H.
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[Human-hippo conflicts in Kenya during 1997-2008: Vulnerability of a megaherbivore to anthropogenic land use changes]
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Human-hippo conflicts in Kenya during 1997-2008: Vulnerability of a megaherbivore to anthropogenic land use changes
There is mounting concern about declines in wildlife populations in many protected areas in Africa. Migratory ungulates are especially vulnerable to impacts of changing land use outside protected areas on their abundance. Range compression may compromise the capacity of migrants to cope with clim...
Ogutu, Joseph O.
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Owen-Smith, N.
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Piepho, Hans-Peter
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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Kifugo, S.C.
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Reid, Robin S.
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Gichohi, H.
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Kahumbu, P.
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Andanje, S.
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[Changing wildlife populations in Nairobi national park and adjoining Athi-Kaputiei plains: Collapse of the migratory Wildebeest]
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Changing wildlife populations in Nairobi national park and adjoining Athi-Kaputiei plains: Collapse of the migratory Wildebeest
Genomic selection (GS) involves estimating breeding values using molecular markers spanning the entire genome. Accurate prediction of genomic breeding values (GEBVs) presents a central challenge to contemporary plant and animal breeders. The existence of a wide array of marker-based approaches fo...
Ogutu, Joseph O.
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Piepho, Hans-Peter
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Schulz-Streeck, T.
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[A comparison of random forests, boosting and support vector machines for genomic selection]
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A comparison of random forests, boosting and support vector machines for genomic selection
1. Rainfall is the prime climatic factor underpinning the dynamics of African savanna ungulates,but no study has analysed its influence on the abundance of these ungulates at monthly to multiannual time scales.
2. We report relationships between rainfall and changes in age- and sex-structured ...
Ogutu, Joseph O.
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Peipho, H.P.
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Dublin, H.T.
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Bhola, N.
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Reid, Robin S.
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[Rainfall influences on ungulate population abundance in the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem]
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Rainfall influences on ungulate population abundance in the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem
State-space models play a central role in time series analysis. Biological time series, which present trend, seasonal, and cyclic fluctuations, can be well described by such models. In addition, biological experiments and surveys often have a relatively complex design structure calling for specia...
Global consumption of livestock products is increasing steadily due to human population growth, poverty reduction and dietary changes raising the demand for already scarce freshwater and land resources. Here, we analyze the changes associated with direct and indirect use of freshwater and land fo...
Bosire, Caroline K.
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Ogutu, Joseph O.
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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Krol, M.S.
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Leeuw, Jan de
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Hoekstra, A.Y.
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[Trends and spatial variation in water and land footprints of meat and milk production systems in Kenya]
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Trends and spatial variation in water and land footprints of meat and milk production systems in Kenya
African driver ants are nomadic social mesopredators feeding on a highly diverse array of prey species at different trophic levels. Colonies of certain driver ant species have a biomass which can equal that of medium-sized mammalian carnivores and the ultimate cause of their nomadic life-style is...
Schöning, C.
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Csuzdi, C.
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Kinuthia, W.
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Ogutu, Joseph O.
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[Influence of driver ant swarm raids on earthworm prey densities in the Mount Kenya forest: implications for prey population dynamics and colony migrations]
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Influence of driver ant swarm raids on earthworm prey densities in the Mount Kenya forest: implications for prey population dynamics and colony migrations
Nkedianye, D.K.
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Ogutu, Joseph O.
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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Kifugo, S.C.
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Leeuw, Jan de
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Gardingen, P.V.
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Reid, Robin S.
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[Livestock-wealth inequalities and uptake of crop cultivation among the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania]
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Livestock-wealth inequalities and uptake of crop cultivation among the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania
There is growing evidence of escalating wildlife losses worldwide. Extreme wildlife losses have recently been documented for large parts of Africa, including western, Central and Eastern Africa. Here, we report extreme declines in wildlife and contemporaneous increase in livestock numbers in Keny...
Ogutu, Joseph O.
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Piepho, Hans-Peter
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Said, Mohammed Yahya
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Ojwang, G.O.
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Njino, L.W.
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Kifugo, S.C.
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Wargute, P.W.
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[Extreme wildlife declines and concurrent increase in livestock numbers in Kenya: What are the causes?]
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Extreme wildlife declines and concurrent increase in livestock numbers in Kenya: What are the causes?