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2025

Brandl, H.B., Klarevas-Irby, J.A., Zuñiga, D., Wheat, C.H., Christensen, C., Omengo, F., Nzomo, C., Cherono, W., Nyaguthii, B. and Farine, D.R. (2025). The physiological cost of leadership in collective movements. Current Biology, 35(16), 4003-4010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.065
de Boer, T., Farine, D.R., and Klarevas-Irby, J.A. (2025). Habitat selection during dispersal reduces the energetic cost of transport when making large displacements. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.25.568690.
Christensen, C., Ferreira, A.C., Cherono, W., Maximiadi, M., Nyaguthii, B., Ogino, M., Herrera, D., and Farine, D.R. (2025). Moving towards more holistic machine learning-based approaches for classification problems in animal studies. Animal Behaviour, 230, 123386. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123386
Christensen, C., Sikenykeny, K., & Farine, D. R. (2025). Resource scarcity increases foraging activity despite thermal risk in an arid-adapted bird. bioRxiv, 2025-11. DOI: htts://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.13.688088
Coverdale, T. C., Boucher, P. B., Singh, J., & Davies, A. B. (2025). Quantifying aboveground herbaceous biomass in grassy ecosystems: a comparison of field and high‐resolution UAV‐LiDAR approaches. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.
Chataigner, B., Pilfold, N. W., Lenguya, L., Besnard, A. G., & Gimenez, O. (2025). Unusual Suspects: Detection Probability Covaries With Vegetation Productivity and Rainfall for Camera Survey of African Leopards (Panthera pardus pardus). Ecology and Evolution, 15(5), e71346. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71346
Duporge, I., Kholiavchenko, M., Harel, R., Wolf, S., Rubenstein, D. I., Crofoot, M. C.,Berger-Wolf, T., Lee, S.J., Barreau, J., Kline, J. and Ramirez, M., & Stewart, C. V. (2025). Baboonland dataset: Tracking primates in the wild and automating behaviour recognition from drone videos. International Journal of Computer Vision, 1-12.
Duporge, I., Minano, S., Sirmpilatze, N., Tatarnikov, I., Wolf, S., Tyson, A. L., & Rubenstein, D. (2025). Tracking the Flight: Exploring a Computational Framework for Analyzing Escape Responses in Plains Zebra (Equus quagga). arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16882.
Ebel, C. R., Case, M. F., Werner, C. M., Porensky, L. M., Veblen, K. E., Wells, H. B., … & Hallett, L. M. (2022). Herbivory and drought reduce the temporal stability of herbaceous cover by increasing synchrony in a semi-arid savanna. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 867051.
Earl, A.D., Carter, G.G., Berlinger, A.G., Korir, E., Shah, S.S., Watetu, W.N. and Rubenstein, D.R., 2025. A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird. Nature, pp.1-8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08958-4
Forbes, E.S., D. Moore, J.N. Mantas, J. Schimel, T.P. Young & H.S. Young, 2025. Labile soil carbon heterogeneity driven by consumer engineering of aboveground structure in a Kenyan savanna. Ecosystems 28: 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-024-00944-7
Hex, S. B., Isbilen, E. S., & Rubenstein, D. I. (2025). Plains Zebras Prioritize Foraging Without Sacrificing Social Bonds During a Severe Drought. Ecology and Evolution, 15(1), e70632. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70632
Hex, S. B., & Rubenstein, D. I. (2025). “Age of risk” shapes simpler multimodal communication in the juvenile plains zebra (Equus quagga). Communications Biology, 8(1), 44. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07169-3
Kamau, M., Ergunay, K., Bourke, B.P., Mutura, J., Lebunge, R., Ochieng, G., Gathii, K., Waitumbi, J., Mutai, B., Hassell, J. and von Fricken, M., (2025). Potential spillover investigated by metagenome sequencing in Laikipia, Kenya reveals tick-borne pathogens and a novel bunyavirus. One Health, p.101226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2025.101226
Karugu, J., D. Kimuyu, D. Kenfack and M. Inbar. (2025). Myrmecophytic Acacia drepanolobium extends protection against herbivores to the herbaceous vegetation community growing underneath their canopies. Ecology and Evolution 15: e71500. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71500
Kholiavchenko, M., Kline, J., Kukushkin, M., Brookes, O., Stevens, S., Duporge, I., Sheets, A., Babu, R.R., Banerji, N., Campolongo, E. and Thompson, M., (2025). Deep dive into kabr: a dataset for understanding ungulate behavior from in-situ drone video. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 84(21), pp.24563-24582. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-024-20512-4
Kirathe JN and Rubenstein DI (2025). Conservation of the endangered Grevy’s zebra: The influence of land use patterns on distribution and abundance in Samburu-Laikipia landscape, Kenya. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 6, p.1582057. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2025.1582057
Klarevas-Irby JA, Nyaguthii B,Farine DR. (2025). Moving as a group imposes constraints on the energetic efficiency of movement. Proc. R. Soc. B 292: 20242760. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2760
Kline, J., Afridi, S., Rolland, E.G., Maalouf, G., Laporte‐Devylder, L., Stewart, C., Crofoot, M., Stewart, C.V., Rubenstein, D.I. and Berger‐Wolf, T., 2025. Studying collective animal behaviour with drones and computer vision. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16(10), pp.2229-2259. doi/pdf/10.1111/2041-210X.70128
Kline, J., Zhong, A., Irizarry, K., Stewart, C. V., Stewart, C., Rubenstein, D. I., & Berger‐Wolf, T. (2025). WildWing: An open‐source, autonomous and affordable UAS for animal behaviour video monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Knowles, T., N. Stevens, E.E. Amoako, M. Armani, C. Barbosa, C. Beale, W. Bond, E. Chidumayo, C. Courtney-Mustaphi, K. Dintwe, A. Dobson, J. Donaldson, L. Dziba, N. Govender, G. Hempson, G.J. Humphrey, D. Kimuyu, P. Laris, A.B. N’Dri, C.L. Parr, J. Probert, G. Ruecker, I. Smit, T. Strydom, S. Syampungani and S. Archibald. (2025). Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management. Nature Sustainability 8: 226–233. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01490-9
Mizell, G. M., Milligan, P. D., Palmer, T. M., Mosiany, J., Lemboi, J. S., & Pringle, E. G. (2025). The impact of shade on whole-plant carbon allocation in a dominant East African tree sapling. AoB Plants, 17(4), plaf039. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaf039
Nyaguthii, B., Dehnen, T., Klarevas-Irby, J.A., Papageorgiou, D., Kogsey, J., Farine, D.R. (2025) . Cooperative breeding in a plural breeder, the vulturine guineafowl. Ibis 167(3): 695-710. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13393
Oduor, S., Lekolool, I., Ndunda, M. M., Mulindi, S., Kaitopok, J. P., Weeks, S., . . . Wittemyer, G. (2025). Physiological and nutritional stress response of African elephants within the lantana-dominated Lower Imenti Forest Reserve in Kenya. Conservation Physiology, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaf060
Oduor, S., Brown, J. L., Kimata, D., Gichuki, N. N., Parker, J. M., Murray, S., . . . Wittemyer, G. (2025). Higher fecal glucocorticoid and triiodothyronine metabolite concentrations are associated with agricultural use in male African savanna elephants. Global Ecology and Conservation, 63, e03912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03912
Shah, S.S. and Rubenstein, D.R., (2025). Intraspecific variation in group structure arises due to environmentally‐mediated directional dispersal in a cooperative breeder. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(3), pp.356-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14162
Shi, A., & Hex, S. B. (2025). The direct social benefits of friendships between female plains zebras (Equus quagga). Behaviour, 1(aop), 1-24.
Stewart PS, Hill RA, Oduor AMO, Stephens PA, Whittingham MJ, Dawson W (2025). Multi-species impacts of invasive Opuntia cacti on mammal habitat use. Ecology Letters 28: e70163. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70163
Sundaresan, A., Parham, J., Crall, J., Warungu, R., Muthami, T., Miliko, J., Mwangi, M., Holmberg, J., Berger‐Wolf, T., Rubenstein, D. and Stewart, C., (2025). Adapting the Re‐ID Challenge for Static Sensors. IET Computer Vision, 19(1), p.e70027. https://doi.org/10.1049/cvi2.70027
Tombak, K. J., Nonnamaker, L. E., Parham, J. R., Stewart, C. V., Warungu, R., & Rubenstein, D. I. (2025). Darwin’s hostile forces shape social scaling in equids: a comparison of group size dynamics in Grevy’s and plains zebras. Animal Behaviour, 123158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123158
Wachira,E. W, Wambugu,G.M & Ndiritu,G. G (2025). Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Stream Water Quality and Macroinvertebrate Diversity in an Afrotropical Watershed. Water and Environmental Sustainability, doi: 10.52293/wes.2025.514994.1069 .
Watkins, Carmen Ebel. (2025). The effects of drought and biotic interactions on coexistence and stability in grasslands. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oregon.
Wells, H.B.M., D.N. Kimuyu, K.E. Veblen and T.P. Young. (2025). Megaherbivores suppress precipitation-driven plant irruptions in an African savanna. Ecosphere: 16(5): e70239. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70239
Wells, H.B.M. D.M. Kimuyu, W.O. Odadi, G.K. Charles, K.E. Veblen, L.M. Porensky, C. Riginos, J. Ekadeli, M. Namoni, J. Ekeno, B. Kimiti, S. Kurukuru, A.A. Hassan, L.M. Hallett, A.A. Wolf, R.M. Pringle, and T.P. Young. (2025). Disturbances in drylands: Interactions among herbivory, drought, and termite activity in savanna plant communities. Journal of Ecology 113: 1491-1503. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70036
Videvall, E.,. Gill, B. A., Brown, M. B., Hoff, H.K., Bethan L., Littleford-Colquhoun, Lokeny, P., Musili, P. M., and Kartzinel, T. R. (2025). Diet-microbiome covariation across three giraffe species in a close-contact zone, Global Ecology and Conservation, 58:e03480 | doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03480

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2024

Abraham, J.O., Lin, B., Miller, A.E., Henry, L.P., Demmel, M.Y., Warungu, R., Mwangi, M., Lobura, P.M., Pallares, L.F., Ayroles, J.F. and Pringle, R.M., (2024). Determinants of microbiome composition: Insights from free-ranging hybrid zebras (Equus quagga× grevyi). Molecular ecology, 33(11), p.e17370. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17370
Britnell, J., Antwis, R., Kartzinel, T., Rubenstein, D., Toye, P., Karani, B., Njeru, R., Gaymer, J., Mutisya, S. and Shultz, S., (2024). Linking diet switching to reproductive performance across populations of two critically endangered mammalian herbivores. Communications Biology, 7(1), pp.333-333.
Brown, B.R.P., L.M. Khasoha, P. Lokeny, R.P. Jakopak, C.G. Reed, M. Dyck, A. Wambua, S.D. Newsome, T.M. Palmer, R.M. Pringle, J.R. Goheen, and T.R. Kartzinel. (2024). Spatiotemporal variation in the gut microbiomes of co-occurring wild rodent species. Ecosphere 15:e4854. PDF
Christensen, C., Andre Ferreira, Wismer Cherono, Maria Maximiadi, Brendah Nyaguthii, Mina Ogino, Daniel Herrera, and Damien Farine. (2024). “Moving towards more holistic validation of machine learning-based approaches in ecology and evolution.” BioRxiv : 2024)-10.
Coverdale, T.C., P.B. Boucher, J. Singh, T.M. Palmer, J.R. Goheen, R.M. Pringle, and A.B. Davies. (2024). Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity-diversity relationship. Ecological Monographs 6:e1624. PDF
Duporge, I., Maksim Kholiavchenko, Roi Harel, Scott Wolf, Dan Rubenstein, Meg Crofoot, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Stephen Lee, Julie Barreau, Jenna Kline, Michelle Ramirez, Charles Stewart. BaboonLand Dataset: Tracking Primates in the Wild and Automating Behaviour Recognition from Drone Videos. arXiv:2405.17698 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2405.17698v3 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.17698
Harvey Sky, N., Britnell, J., Antwis, R. et al. (2024). Linking diet switching to reproductive performance across populations of two critically endangered mammalian herbivores. Commun Biol 7, 333 https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05983-3
Hex, S. B., & Rubenstein, D. I. (2024). A visual signal to achieve joint attention in wild plains zebras, Equus quagga. Animal Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.02.019
Hex, S.B., Rubenstein, D.I. (2024). Using networks to visualise, analyse, and interpret multimodal communication. Animal Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.11.002
Hou M, Akhtar MS, Hayashi M, Ashino, Matsumoto-Oda A, Hayakawa T, Ishida T, Melin AD, Imai H, Kawamura S. (2024). Reduction of bitter taste receptor gene family in folivorous Colobines as compared with omnivorous Cercopithecines in Primates. Primates. DOI: 10.1007/s10329-024-01124-w.
Kamau, M., Witte, C., Goosen, W.J., Mutinda, M., Villinger, J., Getange, D., Khogali, R., Von Fricken, M.E., Fevre, E., Zimmerman, D., Linton, Y.-M. & M.A. Miller. (2024). Comparison of test performance of a conventional PCR and two field-friendly tests to detect Coxiella burnetii DNA in ticks using Bayesian latent class analysis. Frontiers in Veterinary Science – Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Published June 10, 2024. Doi:10.3389/fvets.2024.1396714
Karugu, Julius C. (2024). Factors influencing effectiveness of myrmecophytic Acacia drepanolobium in nursing other plant species in Mpala Research Center. MSc Dissertation. Karatina University.
Karp, A.T., S.I. Koerner, G.P. Hempson, J.O. Abraham, T.M. Anderson, W.J. Bond, D. E. Burkepile, J.R. Goheen, J.A. Guyton, T.R. Kartzinel, D.M. Kimuyu, N. Mohanbabu, T.M. Palmer, L.M. Porensky, R.M. Pringle, M.E. Ritchie, M.D. Smith, D.I. Thompson, T.P. Young, and A.C. Staver. (2024). Grazing herbivores reduce herbaceous biomass and fire activity across broad-scale savanna gradients. Ecology Letters 27: e14450. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14450
Khogali, R., Bastos, A., Bargul, J.L., Getange, D., Kabii, J., Masiga, D. and Villinger, J., 2024. Tissue-specific localization of tick-borne pathogens in ticks collected from camels in Kenya: insights into vector competence. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 14, p.1382228.
Kholiavchenko, M., Kline, J., Ramirez, M., Stevens, S., Sheets, A., Babu, R., Banerji, N., Campolongo, E., Thompson, M., Van Tiel, N. and Miliko, J., (2024). KABR: In-Situ Dataset for Kenyan Animal Behavior Recognition from Drone Videos. In 2024 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (WACVW) (pp. 31-40). IEEE Computer Society.
Kholiavchenko, M., Kline, J., Kukushkin, M., Brookes, O., Stevens, S., Duporge, I., Sheets, A., Babu, R.R., Banerji, N., Campolongo, E. and Thompson, M., (2024). Deep dive into KABR: a dataset for understanding ungulate behavior from in-situ drone video. Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp.1-20. https://kabrdata.xyz.
Kirathe, J.N., Githaiga, J.M., Chira, R.M. and Rubenstein, D.I., (2024). Habitat selection by Grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi): Conservation implications. African Journal of Ecology, 62(1), p.e13229. DOI: 10.1111/aje.13229
Klarevas-Irby, J. A., & Farine, D. R. (2024). Diel patterns of movement reveal temporal strategies during dispersal. Animal Behaviour, 207, 119–129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.10.010
Lenguya, L., Ewaton, L. and Pilfold, N.W., (2024). Adoption by olive baboons (Papio anubis) of newly constructed electricity pylons as sleeping sites in Laikipia, Kenya. Ecology and Evolution, 14(3), p.e11164. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11164
Lilak, A.A., Pecor, D.B., Matulis, G., Potter, A.M., Wofford, R.N., Kearney, M.F., Mitchell, S., Jaradat, F., Kano, A., Zimmerman, D.M., Hassell, J.M., Kumsa, B., Kamau, M., Linton, Y.-M. & M.E. von Fricken. (2024). Data Release: Targeted Systematic Literature Search for Tick and Tick-borne Pathogen Distributions in Six Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1901–2020. Parasites and Vectors 17(1): 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06086-4d.
Loftus JC, Harel R, Ashbury AM, Núñez CL, Omondi GP, Muttinda M, Matsumoto-Oda A, Isbell LA, Crofoot MC. (2024). Sharing sleeping sites disrupts sleep but catalyses social tolerance and coordination between groups. Proc Biol Sci. 291(2034):20241330. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1330. Epub 2024 Nov 6. PMID: 39501885; PMCID: PMC11538986.
Martinez, V., Mantas, J., Hulke, J., Gituku, B., Ndiema, N., Elkouby, M., Thompson, A., CantoAdams, J., Yeh, S., VanLeeuwen, A., Young, H., & Titcomb, G. (2024). Interacting effects of surface water and temperature on wild and domestic large herbivore aggregations and contact rates. Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14728
Masudi, S.P., R.L. Sensenig, W.O. Odadi, D.M. Kimuyu, C.K. Gachuiri and T.P. Young. (2024). Wild herbivores and cattle have differing effects on post-fire herbaceous vegetation recovery in an African savanna. Ecological Applications 34: e2975 ) https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2975
Oduor, S., Gichuki, N.N., Brown, J.L., Parker, J., Kimata, D., Murray, S., Goldenberg, S.Z., Schutgens, M. and Wittemyer, G., (2024). Adrenal and metabolic hormones demonstrate risk–reward trade-offs for African elephants foraging in human-dominated landscapes. Conservation Physiology, 12(1), p.coae051
Oh, W., Muneepeerakul, R., Rubenstein, D. and Levin, S., (2024). Emergent network patterns of internal displacement in Somalia driven by natural disasters and conflicts. Global Environmental Change, 84, p.102793.
Pilfold, N. W., Lenguya, L., Letoluai, A., Campbell, H., & Owen, M. A. (2024). When people are away the cats will play: African leopards alter visitation patterns at a Safari Guest Lodge in association with the COVID-19 quietus on Loisaba Conservancy, Kenya. Global Ecology and Conservation, 56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03348
Resheff, Y.S., Bensch, H.M., Zöttl, M. et al. (2024). How to treat mixed behavior segments in supervised machine learning of behavioural modes from inertial measurement data. Mov Ecol 12, 44 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00485-7
Riginos, C., D.M. Kimuyu, K.E. Veblen, L.M. Porensky, W.O. Odadi, and R.L. Sensenig. and T.P. Young. (2024). Getting better with age: Lessons from the Kenya Long-term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE). Ecology Letters. 27(12), p.e14466. 10.1111/ele.14466
Rhodes, A. C., R. M. Plowes, E. A. Bowman, A. Gaitho, I. Ng’Iru, D. J. Martins, and L. E. Gilbert. (2024). Systematic reduction of natural enemies and competition across variable precipitation approximates buffelgrass invasiveness (Cenchrus ciliaris) in its native range. Ecology and Evolution 14:e11350
Stiegler, J. and 105 coauthors. (2024). Mammals show faster recovery from capture and tagging in human-disturbed landscapes. Nature Communications 15:8079. PDF
Tombak, K.J., Hex, S.B. and Rubenstein, D.I., (2024). New estimates indicate that males are not larger than females in most mammal species. Nature Communications, 15(1), pp.1-7.
Trepel, J., E. le Roux, A.J. Abraham, R. Buitenwerf, J. Kamp, J.A. Kristensen, M. Tietje, E.J. Lundgren & J.-C. Svenning. (2024). Meta-analysis shows that wild large herbivores shape ecosystem properties and promote spatial heterogeneity. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8: 705–716. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02327-6.
Tyler C. Coverdale, Peter B. Boucher, Jenia Singh, Todd M. Palmer, Jacob R. Goheen, Robert M. Pringle, Andrew B. Davies, (2024). Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship. Ecological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1624
Wang, Z., Huben, R., Boucher, P. B., Van Amburg, C., Zeng, J., Chung, N., … & Davies, A. B. (2024). Automated detection of an insect‐induced keystone vegetation phenotype using airborne LiDAR. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(5), 978-993.

2023

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2023

Akunda, I. K., Kariuki, D. W., Matulis, G., Mwaura, P., Maina, B., Mohammed, H., Paul, A., Onyambu, F. G., ole Kwallah, A., Martins, D. J., von Fricken, M. E., & Kamau, J. M. (2023). Antimicrobial resistance patterns and characterisation of emerging beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in camels sampled from Northern Kenya. Veterinary Medicine and Science, 9(3), 1407–1416. https://doi.org/10.1002/vms3.1090
Ang’ila, R. O., Kimuyu, D. M., Wambugu, G. M., Kenfack, D., Musili, P. M., & Kartzinel, T. R. (2023). Fine-scale variation in soil and topography influences herbaceous vegetation and the distribution of large mammalian herbivores. African Journal of Ecology, 61(3), 706–716. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13166
Angwenyi, S. K. S., Hassell, J., Miller, M. A., Mutinda, M., Vitali, F., & Murray, S. (2023). A review of clostridial diseases in rhinoceroses. Conservation Science and Practice, 5(3), e12906. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12906
Aron, P. G., Li, S., Brooks, J. R., Welker, J. M., & Levin, N. E. (2023). Seasonal Variations in Triple Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Precipitation in the Western and Central United States. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(4), e2022PA004458. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004458
Benka, V. A. (2023). Expanding the scope of challenges to human-wildlife coexistence, and the implications for conservation: A case study of Laikipia, Kenya. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 28(6), 585–601. https://doi.org/10.1080/10871209.2022.2136421
Bergstrom, B. J., Scruggs, S. B., & Vieira, E. M. (2023). Tropical savanna small mammals respond to loss of cover following disturbance: A global review of field studies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1017361
Brown, B. R. P., Goheen, J. R., Newsome, S. D., Pringle, R. M., Palmer, T. M., Khasoha, L. M., & Kartzinel, T. R. (2023). Host phylogeny and functional traits differentiate gut microbiomes in a diverse natural community of small mammals. Molecular Ecology, 32(9), 2320–2334. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16874
Brown, M. B., Fennessy, J. T., Crego, R. D., Fleming, C. H., Alves, J., Brandlová, K., Fennessy, S., Ferguson, S., Hauptfleisch, M., Hejcmanova, P., Hoffman, R., Leimgruber, P., Masiaine, S., McQualter, K., Mueller, T., Muller, B., Muneza, A., O’Connor, D., Olivier, A. J., … Stabach, J. (2023). Ranging behaviours across ecological and anthropogenic disturbance gradients: A pan-African perspective of giraffe (Giraffa spp.) space use. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2001), 20230912. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0912
Brown, B.R.P., L.M. Khasoha, P. Lokeny, R.P. Jakopak, C.G. Reed, M. Dyck, A. Wambua, S.D. Newsome, T.M. Palmer, R.M. Pringle, J.R. Goheen, and T.R. Kartzinel. 2023. Spatiotemporal variation in the gut microbiomes of co-occurring wild rodent species. Ecosphere 15:e4854. PDF
Coetsee, C., Wigley, B. J., Sankaran, M., Ratnam, J., & Augustine, D. J. (2023). Contrasting Effects of Grazing vs Browsing Herbivores Determine Changes in Soil Fertility in an East African Savanna. Ecosystems, 26(1), 161–173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-022-00748-7
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Kline, J., Stewart, C., Berger-Wolf, T., Ramirez, M., Stevens, S., Babu, R. R., Banerji, N., Sheets, A., Balasubramaniam, S., Campolongo, E., Thompson, M., Stewart, C. V., Kholiavchenko, M., Rubenstein, D. I., Van Tiel, N., & Miliko, J. (2023). A Framework for Autonomic Computing for In Situ Imageomics. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS), 11–16. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSOS58161.2023.00018
Koger, B., Deshpande, A., Kerby, J. T., Graving, J. M., Costelloe, B. R., & Couzin, I. D. (2023). Quantifying the movement, behaviour and environmental context of group-living animals using drones and computer vision. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(7), 1357–1371. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13904
Lea, A. J., Caldas, I. V., Garske, K. M., Echwa, J., Gurven, M., Handley, C., Kahumbu, J., Kamau, Kinyua, P., Lotukoi, F., Lopurudoi, A., Lowasa, S., Mallarino, R., Martins, D., Messer, P. W., Miano, C., Muhoya, B., Peng, J., Phung, T., … Ayroles, J. F. (2023). Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya (p. 2023.01.17.524066). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.17.524066
Lujan, E., Nielsen, R., Short, Z., Wicks, S., Watetu, W. N., Khasoha, L. M., Palmer, T. M., Goheen, J. R., & Alston, J. M. (2023). Symbiotic acacia ants drive nesting behavior by birds in an African savanna. Biotropica, 55(6), 1101–1105. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13276
Lyet, A., Waller, S., Chambert, T., Acevedo, P., Howe, E., Kühl, H.S., Naidoo, R., O’Brien, T., Palencia, P., Soutyrina, S.V., Vicente, J., Wearn, O.R. and Gray, T.N.E. (2023). Estimating animal density using the Space-to-Event model and bootstrap resampling with motion-triggered camera-trap data. Remote Sens Ecol Conserv. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.361
Milligan, P. D., Martin, T. A., Pringle, E. G., Prior, K. M., & Palmer, T. M. (2023). Symbiotic ant traits produce differential host-plant carbon and water dynamics in a multi-species mutualism. Ecology, 104(1), e3880. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3880
Milligan, P. D., Palmer, T. M., Lemboi, J. S., Mosiany, J., Mutisya, S., Gituku, B., Kibungei, A., & Pringle, E. G. (2023). Ant invasion is associated with lower root density and different root distribution of a foundational savanna tree species. Biological Invasions, 25(6), 1683–1691. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03008-4
Mizell, G. M., Kim, T., Sullivan, B. W., Lemboi, J. S., Mosiany, J., Palmer, T. M., & Pringle, E. G. (2023). Carbon allocation in an East African ant-acacia: Field testing a 13C-labeling method for evaluating biotic impacts on the carbon cycle. Plant Ecology, 224(11), 953–963. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-023-01350-0
Morrison, C., Plowes, R., Ng’iru, I., Rhodes, A., Martins, D., & Gilbert, L. (2023). Arthropod associates of Kenyan buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris): A field survey for biological control candidates of a globally important invasive grass. African Entomology, 31. https://doi.org/10.17159/2254-8854/2023/a16178
Nams, V. O., Parker, D. M., Weise, F. J., Patterson, B. D., Buij, R., Radloff, F. G. T., Vanak, A. T., Tumenta, P. N., Hayward, M. W., Swanepoel, L. H., Funston, P. J., Bauer, H., Power, R. J., O’Brien, J., O’Brien, T. G., Tambling, C. J., de Iongh, H. H., Ferreira, S. M., Owen-Smith, N., … Beukes, M. (2023). Spatial patterns of large African cats: A large-scale study on density, home range size, and home range overlap of lions Panthera leo and leopards Panthera pardus. Mammal Review, 53(2), 49–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12309
Norwood, A. L., Pobiner, B. L., Shedden, K., & Kingston, J. D. (2023). Modeling periodicity in equid serial enamel isotopes as a proxy for precipitation seasonality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 625, 111666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111666
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Pringle, R. M., Abraham, J. O., Anderson, T. M., Coverdale, T. C., Davies, A. B., Dutton, C. L., Gaylard, A., Goheen, J. R., Holdo, R. M., Hutchinson, M. C., Kimuyu, D. M., Long, R. A., Subalusky, A. L., & Veldhuis, M. P. (2023). Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems. Current Biology: CB, 33(11), R584–R610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.024
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Collins, M., Ngetich, C., Owido, M., Getange, D., Harris, R., Bargul, J.L., Bodha, B., Njoroge, D., Muloi, D., Martins, D.J. and Villinger, J., 2022. Detection of antibodies to Ehrlichia spp. in dromedary camels and co-grazing sheep in northern Kenya using an Ehrlichia ruminantium polyclonal competitive ELISA. Microorganisms, 10(5), p.916.
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Hoffmann, C.F., Pilfold, N.W., Ruppert, K.A., Letoluai, A., Lenguya, L., Limo, I. and Montgomery, R.A., (2022). The Integral Nature of Encounter Rate in Predicting Livestock Depredation Risk. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 3, p.808043.
Kamau, J., Ergunay, K., Webala, P.W., Justi, S.A., Bourke, B.P., Kamau, M.W., Hassell, J., Chege, M.N., Mwaura, D.K., Simiyu, C., Kibiwot, S., Onyuok, S., Caicedo-Quiroga, L., Li, T., Zimmerman, D.M. & Y.-M. Linton. 2022. A Novel Coronavirus and a Broad Range of Viruses in Kenyan Cave Bats. Viruses;14(12):2820. doi: 10.3390/v14122820. Published 17 Dec 2022.
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Krell, N.T., F. Davenport, L. Harrison, W. Turner, S. Peterson, S. Shukla, G. Husak, T.P. Evans, and K. Caylor (2022). Using real-time mobile phone data to characterize the relationships between small-scale farmers’ planting dates and socio-environmental factors. Climate Risk Management. 35: 100396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100396
Little, Jasmine, Dustin R Rubenstein, and Sarah Guindre-Parker. (2022). “Plasticity in Social Behaviour Varies with Reproductive Status in an Avian Cooperative Breeder.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289 (1974): 20220355.
Liu, Wanzhen, David AS Smith, Gayatri Raina, Rowan Stanforth, Ivy Ng’Iru, Piera Ireri, Dino J Martins, Ian J Gordon, and Simon H Martin. (2022). “Global Biogeography of Warning Coloration in the Butterfly Danaus Chrysippus.” Biology Letters 18 (6): 20210639.
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Ngugi, M.W, Duncan M Kimuyu, Ryan L Sensenig, Wilfred O Odadi, Samuel K Kiboi, Joyce K Omari, and Truman P Young. (2022). “Fire and Herbivory Interactively Suppress the Survival and Growth of Trees in an African Semiarid Savanna.” Fire 5 (5): 169.
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Nyaguthii, Brendah, Peter Njoroge, and Damien R Farine. (2022). “Observation of a Black‐cheeked Waxbill (Brunhilda charmosyna) Cleaning a Kirk’s Dik‐dik (Madoqua kirkii).” Ecology and Evolution 12 (2): e8506.
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Pansu, Johan, Matthew C Hutchinson, T Michael Anderson, Mariska Te Beest, Colleen M Begg, Keith S Begg, Aurelie Bonin, Lackson Chama, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, and Eric Coissac. (2022). “The Generality of Cryptic Dietary Niche Differences in Diverse Large-Herbivore Assemblages.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (35): e2204400119.
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Reed, Courtney, Jesse Alston, Tyler Kartzinel, Robert Pringle, and Jacob Goheen. (2022). “Large Herbivore Loss in a Kenyan Savanna: Data from the UHURU Experiment.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 103 (2): 1–3.
Rhodes, A. C., R. M. Plowes, D. J. Martins, I. Ng’Iru, and L. E. Gilbert. (2022). The invasiveness of Guinea grass (Megathyrsus maximus) is characterized by habitat and differing herbivore assemblages in its native and invaded range. NeoBiota 78:25-44
Rubenstein, Dustin Reid, and Joseph Solomon. (2022). “Target-Enriched Enzymatic Methyl Sequencing: Flexible, Scalable and Inexpensive Hybridization Capture for Quantifying DNA Methylation.” BioRxiv. 2022.08.26.505457
Ruppert, Kirstie A, Laiyon Lenguya, Ambrose Letoluai, Isaac Limo, Megan A Owen, Nicholas W Pilfold, Paul Wachira, and Jenny A Glikman (2022). “Avoiding Parachute Science When Addressing Conflict over Wildlife.” Conservation Science and Practice 4 (5): e548.
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Beery, S. and Bondi, E., 2021. Can poachers find animals from public camera trap images?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11236.
Brody, A.K., Palmer, T.M., Fox-Dobbs, K. and Doak, D.F., 2010. Termites, vertebrate herbivores, and the fruiting success of Acacia drepanolobium. Ecology, 91(2), pp.399-407.
Buisson, E., A. Fidelis, G.E. Overbeck, I.B. Schmidt, G. Durigan, T.P. Young, S.T. Alvarado, A.J. Arruda, S. Boisson, W. Bond, A. Coutinho, K. Kirkman, R.S. Oliveira, M.H. Schmitt, F. Siebert, S.J. Siebert, D.I. Thompson, F.A.O. Silveira. 2021. A research agenda for the restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas. Restoration Ecology 29(S1): e13292. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13292
Castillo Vardaro, J.A., Bonachela, J.A., Baker, C.C., Pinsky, M.L., Doak, D.F., Pringle, R.M. and Tarnita, C.E., 2021. Resource availability and heterogeneity shape the self‐organisation of regular spatial patterning. Ecology Letters, 24(9), pp.1880-1891.
Charles, G.K., C. Riginos, K.E. Veblen, D.K. Kimuyu, & T.P. Young. 2021. Termite mound cover and abundance respond to herbivore-mediated biotic changes in an African savanna. Ecology and Evolution 11: 7226-7238. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7445
Childers, R.A., 2021. Ecology and Evolution of the African Ant Acacia, Vachellia drepanolobium, and Its Multiple Symbionts (Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University).
Comizzoli, P., Pagenkopp Lohan, K.M., Muletz-Wolz, C., Hassell, J. and Coyle, B., 2021. The interconnected health initiative: a Smithsonian framework to extend one health research and education. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8, p.255.
Crego, R.D., Wells, H.B., Ndung’u, K.S., Evans, L., Nduguta, R.N., Chege, M.A., Brown, M.B., Ogutu, J.O., Ojwang, G.O., Fennessy, J. and O’Connor, D., Stacy-Dawes, J., Rubenstein, D. I., Martins, D. J., Leimgruber, P., & Stabach, J. A 2021. Moving through the mosaic: identifying critical linkage zones for large herbivores across a multiple‐use African landscape. Landscape Ecology 36(5), pp.1325-1340.
Dehnen, T., Papageorgiou, D., Nyaguthii, B., Cherono, W., Penndorf, J., Boogert, N. J., & Farine, D. R. (2022). Costs dictate strategic investment in dominance interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1845), 20200447.
Fannin LD, Yeakel JD, Venkataraman VV, Seyoum C, Geraads D, Fashing PJ, Nguyen N, Fox-Dobbs K, Dominy NJ (2021). Carbon and strontium isotope ratios shed new light on the paleobiology and collapse of Theropithecus, a primate experiment in graminivory. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 572:110393
Forbes, Elizabeth. 2021. Biodiversity and ecosystem function: How experimental large herbivore loss influences savanna carbon dynamics. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gitau, A.N., Onwonga, R.N., Mbau, J.S., Chepkemoi, J. and Mureithi, S.M., 2021. Effect of Grazing Management and Land Cover Types on Mineral-Associated Organic Carbon and Particulate Organic Carbon in a Semi-arid Rangelands in Kenya. Research Square. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-768864/v1
Gold, S., Donnelly, C.A., Woodroffe, R. and Nouvellet, P., 2021. Modelling the influence of naturally acquired immunity from subclinical infection on outbreak dynamics and persistence of rabies in domestic dogs. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(7), p.e0009581.
Guido, Z., S. Lopus, K. Waldman, C. Hannah, A. Zimmer, N. Krell, C. Knudson, L. Estes, K.K. Caylor, and T.P. Evans (2021). Perceived Links between Climate Change and Weather Forecast Accuracy: New Barriers to Tools for Agricultural Decision-making. Climatic Change 169(9). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03207-9
Guindre-Parker, S. and Rubenstein, D.R., 2021. Long-term measures of climate unpredictability shape the avian endocrine stress axis. The American Naturalist, 198(3), pp.394-405.
Hannah, C., S. Giroux, N. Krell, S. Lopus, L. McCann, A. Zimmer, K.K. Caylor, and T.P. Evans (2021). Has the vision of a gender quota been realized for community-based water management committees in Kenya? World Development 137: 105154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105154
Harel, R., Loftus, J.C. and Crofoot, M.C., 2021. Locomotor compromises maintain group cohesion in baboon troops on the move. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1955), p.20210839.
Isbell, L.A., Bidner, L.R., Loftus, J.C., Kimuyu, D.M. and Young, T.P., 2021. Absentee owners and overlapping home ranges in a territorial species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75(1), pp.1-14.
Kamau, M.W., Brown, J.L., Hassell, J.M., Gaymer, J., Farnham, M.W., Mutinda, M., Kariuki, L., Gakuya, F., Martins, D.J. and Murray, S., 2021. Establishing East Africa’s first endocrinology laboratory to aid in wildlife conservation. African Journal of Wildlife Research, 51(1), pp.13-18.
Kamau, M.W., Hassell, J.M., Milnes, E.L., Hayek, L.A.C., Mutinda, M.M., Harel, R., Matsumoto-Oda, A., Yu, J.H., Zimmerman, D., Crofoot, M. and Murray, S., 2021. Point of Care Blood Gas and Electrolyte Analysis in Anesthetized Olive Baboons (Papio anubis) in a Field Setting. International Journal of Primatology, pp.1-15.
Kenfack, D., Arellano, G., Kibet, S., Kimuyu, D. and Musili, P., 2021. Understanding the monodominance of Acacia drepanolobium in East African savannas: insights from demographic data. Trees, pp.1-12.
Kibet, S., Nyangito, M., MacOpiyo, L. and Kenfack, D., 2021. Savanna woody plants responses to mammalian herbivory and implications for management of livestock–wildlife landscape. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2(3), p.e12083.
Kimuyu, D.M., Kenfack, D., Musili, P.M. and Ang’ila, R.O., 2021. Fine‐scale habitat heterogeneity influences browsing damage by elephant and giraffe. Biotropica, 53(1), pp.86-96.
Klarevas‐Irby, J.A., Wikelski, M. and Farine, D.R., 2021. Efficient movement strategies mitigate the energetic cost of dispersal. Ecology Letters. 2021 Jul;24(7):1432-1442.
Krell, N.T., S.A. Giroux, Z.S. Guido, C. Hannah, S.E. Lopus, K.K. Caylor, and T. Evans (2021). Smallholder farmers’ use of mobile phone services in central Kenya. Climate & Development 13(3): 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2020.1748847
Krell, N.T., B. Morgan, D. Gower, and K.K. Caylor (2021). Consequences of dryland maize planting decisions under increased seasonal rainfall variability. Water Resources Research 57: e2020WR029362. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029362
LaMalfa, E.M., Riginos, C. and Veblen, K.E., 2021. Browsing wildlife and heavy grazing indirectly facilitate sapling recruitment in an East African savanna. Ecological Applications, p.e02399.
Lea, A.J., Waigwa, C., Muhoya, B., Lotukoi, F., Peng, J., Henry, L., Abhyankar, V., Kamau, J., Martins, D., Gurven, M. and Ayroles, J.F., 2021. Social gradients in health vary between rural and urban Turkana. medRxiv (preprint).
Martins, D.J., 2021. Best practice for protecting pollinators. Nature Ecology & Evolution, pp.1-2.
Masika, S.J., Muchemi, G.M., Kamau, J.M., Abuom, T. and Mutura, S.K., 2021. Molecular detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA in Olive Baboons and Vervet monkeys in Kenya. Research Square (preprint).
Masudi, Sherril P. 2021. Effects of domestic and wild herbivores on vegetation response to prescribed burning in an East African savanna. MSc Dissertation. University of Nairobi.
Merid, N., Peter, A., John, N., Abel, O., Daniel, M. and Baldwyn, T., 2021. Shared volatile organic compounds between camel metabolic products elicits strong Stomoxys calcitrans attraction. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1–14.
Milligan, P. D., T. A Martin, E. G. Pringle, C. Riginos, G. M. Mizell, and T. M. Palmer. A soil-nesting invasive ant disrupts carbon dynamics in saplings of a foundational ant-plant. Journal of Ecology. In press.
Milligan, P.D., Martin, T.A., John, G.P., Riginos, C., Goheen, J.R., Carpenter, S.M. and Palmer, T.M., 2021. Mutualism disruption by an invasive ant reduces carbon fixation for a foundational East African ant‐plant. Ecology Letters, 24(5), pp.1052-1062.
Milner, J.E., Blackwell, P.G. and Niu, M., 2021. Modelling and inference for the movement of interacting animals. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(1), pp.54-69.
Ngatia, D.K., Webala, P.W., Mware, M.J., Butynski, T.M., de Jong, Y.A. and Ferguson, A.W., 2021. Biogeography of the Egyptian mongoose Herpestes ichneumon (Linnaeus, 1758) in Africa, with first records for Laikipia County, central Kenya. African Journal of Ecology. 2021; 59: 359– 369.
Oburah, K.O., Lenachuru, C. and Odadi, W.O., 2021. Does the Community Conservancy Model Work for Pastoralists? Insights from Naibunga Conservancy in Northern Kenya. Sustainability, 13(14), p.7772.
Papageorgiou, D., Rozen-Rechels, D., Nyaguthii, B. and Farine, D.R., 2021. Seasonality impacts collective movements in a wild group-living bird. Movement Ecology, 9(1), pp.1-12.
Patel, J., Katan, J., Perez, L. and Sengupta, R., 2021. Transferring decision boundaries onto a geographic space: Agent rules extracted from movement data using classification trees. Transactions in GIS, 25(3),pp.1176-1192.
Pietrek, A.G., Goheen, J.R., Riginos, C., Maiyo, N.J. and Palmer, T.M., 2021. Density dependence and the spread of invasive big-headed ants (Pheidole megacephala) in an East African savanna. Oecologia, 195(3), pp.667-676.
Rajeshwari, K., Hegde, A.R. and Patil, D., 2021, August. Students’ Perception and Reconciliation: Decision Making in Project Groups Formation. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 2007, No. 1, p. 012004). IOP Publishing.
Reinwald, M., Moseley, B., Szenicer, A., Nissen-Meyer, T., Oduor, S., Vollrath, F., Markham, A. and Mortimer, B., 2021. Seismic localization of elephant rumbles as a monitoring approach. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(180), p.20210264.
Rhodes, A.C., Plowes, R.M., Goolsby, J.A., Gaskin, J.F., Musyoka, B., Calatayud, P.A., Cristofaro, M., Grahmann, E.D., Martins, D.J. and Gilbert, L.E., 2021. The dilemma of Guinea grass (Megathyrsus maximus): a valued pasture grass and a highly invasive species. Biological Invasions, pp.1-17.
Rubenstein, D.R., Corvelo, A., MacManes, M.D., Maia, R., Narzisi, G., Rousaki, A., Vandenabeele, P., Shawkey, M. and Solomon, J., 2021. Feather Gene Expression Elucidates the Developmental Basis of Plumage Iridescence in African Starlings. Journal of Heredity, 112(5),pp.417–429.
Seligsohn, D., Younan, M., Larsen, T., Morrell, J.M., Chenais, E. and Nyman, A.K., 2021. Detection of subclinical mastitis in camels (Camelus dromedarius) using somatic cell count, N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase and lactate dehydrogenase activity. Small Ruminant Research, p.106512.
Shah, S. and Rubenstein, D.R., 2021. Prenatal environmental conditions underlie alternative reproductive tactics that drive the formation of a mixed-kin cooperative society. bioRxiv (preprint).
Sitters, J. & H. Olde Venterink. 2021. Body size-fecal nutrient patterns of mammalian herbivores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e2020137118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020137118
Sitters, J. and Olde Venterink, H., 2021. Herbivore dung stoichiometry drives competition between savanna trees and grasses. Journal of Ecology, 109(5), pp.2095-2106.
Snider, M.H., Athreya, V.R., Balme, G.A., Bidner, L.R., Farhadinia, M.S., Fattebert, J., Gompper, M.E., Gubbi, S., Hunter, L.T., Isbell, L.A., and Macdonald, D.W., 2021. Home range variation in leopards living across the human density gradient. Journal of Mammalogy, 102(4), pp.1138-1148.
Suire, A., Isbell, L.A., Bidner, L.R., Shinoda, Y., Akasaka, M. and Matsumoto‐Oda, A., 2021. Influence of rainfall on sleeping site choice by a group of anubis baboons (Papio anubis). American Journal of Primatology, 83(1), p.e23223.
Szenicer, A., Reinwald, M., Moseley, B., Nissen‐Meyer, T., Mutinda Muteti, Z., Oduor, S., McDermott‐Roberts, A., Baydin, A.G. and Mortimer, B., 2021. Seismic savanna: machine learning for classifying wildlife and behaviours using ground‐based vibration field recordings. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.
Tawich, S.K., Bargul, J.L., Masiga, D. and Getahun, M.N., 2021. Supplementing Blood Diet With Plant Nectar Enhances Egg Fertility in Stomoxys calcitrans. Frontiers in Physiology, 12.
Tchouassi, D.P., Torto, B., Sang, R., Riginos, C. and Ezenwa, V.O., 2021. Large herbivore loss has complex effects on mosquito ecology and vector‐borne disease risk. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 68(4), pp.2503-2513.
Titcomb, G., Mantas, J., Hulke, J., Rodriguez, I., Branch, D. and Young, H., 2021. Water sources aggregate parasites, with increasing effects in more arid conditions. Research Square (preprint)
Titcomb, G.C., Amooni, G., Mantas, J.N. and Young, H.S., 2021. The effects of herbivore aggregations at water sources on savanna plants differ across soil and climate gradients. Ecological Applications, p.e02422.
Titcomb, G., Amooni, G., Mantas, J.N., Young, H.S. Savanna plant community responses to herbivore aggregation at water sources vary across abiotic gradients. Eco. Apps. 31, e02422 (2021). (Cover Article)
Wells, H.B., Crego, R.D., Opedal, Ø.H., Khasoha, L.M., Alston, J.M., Reed, C.G., Weiner, S., Kurukura, S., Hassan, A.A., Namoni, M. and Ekadeli, J., 2021. Experimental evidence that effects of megaherbivores on mesoherbivore space use are influenced by species’ traits. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90(11), pp.2510-2522.
Wells, H.B., Kimuyu, D.M., Odadi, W.O., Dougill, A.J., Stringer, L.C., and Young, T.P., 2021. Wild and domestic savanna herbivores increase smaller vertebrate diversity, but less than additively. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(5), pp.953-963.
Werner, C. M. 2021. Prescribed fire highlights the effects of zebra, elephants, cattle, and previous burns on savannah heterogeneity. Bull Ecol Soc Am 102(2):e01851. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1851
Werner, C.M., LaMalfa, E., Sensenig, R.L., Kimuyu, D., Veblen, K.E. and Young, T.P., 2021. Synergistic effects of herbivores and repeat fire on spatial heterogeneity of prescribed burns and their consequences for tree saplings. Ecology 102(4).
Young, T.P., Kimuyu, D.M., Odadi, W.O., Wells, H.B. and Wolf, A.A., 2021. Naïve plant communities and individuals may initially suffer in the face of reintroduced megafauna: An experimental exploration of rewilding from an African savanna rangeland. PloS one, 16(4), p.e0248855.

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Crego, R.D., Ogutu, J.O., Wells, H.B., Ojwang, G.O., Martins, D.J., Leimgruber, P. and Stabach, J.A., 2020. Spatiotemporal dynamics of wild herbivore species richness and occupancy across a savannah rangeland: Implications for conservation. Biological Conservation, 242, p.108436.
DeCarlo, K.F. & K.K. Caylor. 2020. Effects of crack morphology on soil carbon flux dynamics in a dryland vertisol. Geoderma 375:114478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114478
Egna, N., O’Connor, D., Stacy‐Dawes, J., Tobler, M.W., Pilfold, N., Neilson, K., Simmons, B., Davis, E.O., Bowler, M., Fennessy, J. and Glikman, J.A., (2020). Camera settings and biome influence the accuracy of citizen science approaches to camera trap image classification. Ecology and evolution, 10(21), pp.11954-11965.
Fahmy, H.M.A., 2020. Energy Harvesting Projects for WSNs. In Wireless Sensor Networks (pp. 489-609). Springer, Cham.
Ferguson, A.W., Muloi, D., Ngatia, D.K., Kiongo, W., Kimuyu, D.M., Webala, P.W., Olum, M.O., Muturi, M., Thumbi, S.M., Woodroffe, R. and Murugi, L., 2020. Volunteer based approach to dog vaccination campaigns to eliminate human rabies: Lessons from Laikipia County, Kenya. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 14(7), p.e0008260.
Guido, Z., A. Zimmer, S. Lopus, C. Hannah, D. Gower, K. Waldman, N. Krell, J. Sheffield, K. Caylor, and T. Evans (2020). Farmer Forecasts: Impacts of Seasonal Rainfall Expectations on Agricultural Decision-Making in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate Risk Management 30: 100247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2020.100247
Guindre-Parker, S. and Rubenstein, D.R., 2020. Survival benefits of group living in a fluctuating environment. The American Naturalist, 195(6), pp.1027-1036.
Hall, D.M. and Martins, D.J., 2020. Human dimensions of insect pollinator conservation. Current Opinion in Insect Science.
Kartzinel, T.R. and Pringle, R.M., 2020. Multiple dimensions of dietary diversity in large mammalian herbivores. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(6), pp.1482-1496.
Kihwele, E.S., Mchomvu, V., Owen‐Smith, N., Hetem, R.S., Hutchinson, M.C., Potter, A.B., Olff, H. and Veldhuis, M.P., 2020. Quantifying water requirements of African ungulates through a combination of functional traits. Ecological Monographs, 90(2), p.e01404.
Lea, A.J., Martins, D., Kamau, J., Gurven, M. and Ayroles, J.F., 2020. Urbanization and market integration have strong, nonlinear effects on cardiometabolic health in the Turkana. Science advances, 6(43), p.eabb1430.
Martin, S.H., Singh, K.S., Gordon, I.J., Omufwoko, K.S., Collins, S., Warren, I.A., Munby, H., Brattström, O., Traut, W., Martins, D.J. and Smith, D.A., 2020. Whole-chromosome hitchhiking driven by a male-killing endosymbiont. PLoS biology, 18(2), p.e3000610.
Milligan, P., Martin, T., John, G., Riginos, C., Goheen, J., Carpenter, S. and Palmer, T., 2020. Invasive ants reduce carbon fixation for a foundational East African ant-plant. Authorea. DOI: 10.22541/au.159986366.66136129
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Aizen, M. A., Aguiar, S., Biesmeijer, J.C., Garibaldi, L.A., Inouye, D.W., Jung, C., Martins, D.J., Medel, R., Morales, C.L., Ngo, H., Pauw, A., Paxton, R.J., Sáez, A., & Seymour, C.L. (2019). Global agricultural productivity is threatened by increasing pollinator dependence without a parallel increase in crop diversification. Global Change Biology, 25(10), 3516-3527. doi:10.1111/gcb.14736
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Amornbunchornvej, C., Brugere, I., Strandburg-Peshkin, A., Farine, D., Crofoot, M., & Berger-Wolf, T. (2018). Coordination event detection and initiator identification in time series data. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 12: Article 53. doi: 10.1145/3201406 2, 5,
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González, J. B., Pepitas, R. H., Franken, O., Kiers, E. T., Veblen, K. E., & Brody, A. K. (2018). Herbivore removal reduces influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant growth and tolerance in an East African savanna. Oecologia, 187(1), 123-133. doi:10.1007/s00442-018-4124-4
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Ostfeld, J.K. & Keesing, F. (2019). Impacts of large mammals on movements of the pouched mouse (Saccostomus mearnsi) in central Kenya. African Journal of Ecology, 57(1), 2-9. doi:10.1111/aje.12549
Parham, J., Stewart, C., Crall, J., Rubenstein, D.I., Holmberg, J., & Berger-Wolf, T. (2018). Focusing animal identification with annotations of interest. 2018 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV): 1075-1083.
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Riginos, C., Porensky, L. M., Veblen, K. E., & Young, T. P. (2018). Herbivory and drought generate short‐term stochasticity and long‐term stability in a savanna understory community. Ecological Applications 28(2): 323-335. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1649
Rosario, K., K.A. Mettel, B.E. Benner, R. Johnson, C. Scott, S.Z. Yusseff-Vanegas, C.C.M. Baker, D.L. Cassill, C. Storer, A. Varsani & M. Breitbart. 2018. Virus discovery in all three major lineages of terrestrial arthropods highlights the diversity of single-stranded DNA viruses associated with invertebrates. PeerJ 6: e5761.
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Aghová, T., Sumbera, R., Piálek, L., Mikula, O., McDonough, M. M., Lavrenchenko, L. A., Meheretu, Y., Mbau, J. S., & Bryja, J. (2017). Multilocus phylogeny of East African gerbils (Rodentia, Gerbilliscus) illuminates the history of the Somali-Masai savanna. Journal of Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13017
Allan, B., Tallis, H., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Huckett, S., Kowal, G., Musengezi, J., Okanga, S., Ostfeld, R. S., Schieltz, J., Warui, C. M., Wood, S. A., Keesing F. (2017). Can integrating wildlife and livestock enhance the delivery of ecosystem services in central Kenya? Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 15(6), 328–335. doi:10.1002/fee.1501
Baker, C. C. M., Martins, D. J., Pelaez, J. N., Billen, J. P. J., Pringle, A., Frederickson, M. E., & Pierce, N. E. (2017). Distinctive fungal communities in an obligate African ant plant mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284(1850), doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2501
Browne, A. S., Fèvre, E. M., Kinnaird, M., Muloi, D. M., Wang, C. A., Larsen, P. S., O’Brien, T. & Deem, S. L. (2017). Serosurvey of Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) in dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) in Laikipia County, Kenya. Zoonoses & Public Health, 64(7), 543–549. doi:10.1111/zph.12337
Charles, G. K., Porensky, L. M., Riginos, C., Veblen, K. E. & Young, T. P. (2017). Herbivore effects on productivity vary by guild: cattle increase mean productivity while wildlife reduce variability. Ecological Applications, 27(1), 143-155. doi:10.1002/eap.1422
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Farine, D. R., Strandburg-Peshkin, A., Couzin, I. D., Berger-Wolf, T. Y., & Crofoot, M. C. (2017). Individual variation in local interaction rules can explain emergent patterns of spatial organization in wild baboons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1853): 20162243.
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Hauck, S. & Rubenstein, D. I. (2017). Pastoralist societies in flux: a conceptual framework analysis of herding and land use among the Mukugodo Maasai of Kenya. Pastoralism-Research Policy & Practice, 7(18), 1-30. doi:10.1186/s13570-017-0090-4
Isbell, L. A. & Etting, S. F. (2017). Scales drive visual detection, attention, and memory of snakes in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). Primates, 58(1), 121-129. doi:10.1007/s10329-016-0562-y
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Kimuyu, D. M., Sensenig, R. L., Chira, R. M., Githaiga, J. M., & Young, T. P. (2017). Spatial scales influence long-term response of herbivores to prescribed burning in a savanna ecosystem. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 54, 935–944. doi:10.1071/WF16152
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Odadi, W. O., Fargione, J., & Rubenstein, D. I. (2017). Vegetation, wildlife and livestock responses to planned grazing management in an African pastoral landscape. Land Degradation & Development, 28(7), 2030–2038. doi:10.1002/ldr.2725
Odadi, W. O., Kimuyu, D. M., Veblen, K. E., Riginos, C., & Young, T. P. (2017). Fire-induced negative responses of cattle to shared foraging with native ungulates in an African savanna. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(3), 935–944. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12785
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Sensenig, R. L., Kimuyu, D. K., Ruiz Guajardo, J. C., Veblen, K. E., Riginos, C., & Young, T. P. (2017). Fire disturbance disrupts an acacia ant-plant mutualism in favor of a subordinate ant species. Ecology, 98(5), 1455-1464. doi:10.1002/ecy.1797
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Titcomb, G., Allan, B. F., Ainsworth, T., Henson, L., Hedlund, T., Pringle, R. M., Palmer, T. M., Njoroge, L., Campana, M. G., Fleischer, R. C., Mantas, J.N., & Young, H. S., (2017). Interacting effects of wildlife loss and climate on ticks and tick-borne disease. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284(1862), 20170475. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0475
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Alphayo, L., Wasonga, O. V., Odadi, W. O., & Ngugi, R. K. (2016). Differences of soil properties between planned and unplanned grazing sites in semi-arid pastoral rangelands of northern Kenya. International Journal of Innovative Research & Development, 5(13), 15–23.
Baker, C. C. M., Bittleston, L. S., Sanders, J. G., & Pierce, N. E. (2016). Dissecting host-associated communities with DNA barcodes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371(1702), 20150328. doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0328
Barnier, F., Duncan, P., Fritz, H., Blanchard, P., Rubenstein, D. I., & Pays, O. (2016). Between-gender differences in vigilance do not necessarily lead to differences in foraging-vigilance tradeoffs. Oecologia, 181(3), 757-768. doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3614-5
Brubaker, A. S., & Coss, R. G. (2016). Effects of single- and mixed-species group composition on the flight initiation distances of plains and Grevy’s zebras. Ethology, 122(7), 531–541. doi:10.1111/eth.12500
Campana, M. G., Parker, L. D., Hawkins, M. T. R., Young, H. S., Helgen, K. M., Gunther, M. S., Woodroffe, R., Maldonado, J. E., & Fleischer, R. C. (2016). Genome sequence, population history, and pelage genetics of the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus). BMC Genomics, 17(1), 1013. doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3368-9
Coverdale, T. C., Kartzinel, T. R., Grabowski, K. L., Shriver, R. K., Hassan, A. A., Goheen, J. R., Palmer, T. M., & Pringle, R. M. (2016). Elephants in the understory: opposing direct and indirect effects of consumption and ecosystem engineering by megaherbivores. Ecology, 97(11), 3219–3230. doi:10.1002/ecy.1557
Dell’Angelo, J., P. McCord, D. Gower, S. Carpenter, K. Caylor, and T.P. Evans (2016). Community Water Governance on Mount Kenya: An Assessment Based on Ostrom’s Design Principles of Natural Resource Management. Mountain Research & Development 36(1): 102-115. https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-15-00040.1
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Gower, D. B., Dell’Angelo, J., McCord, P. F., Caylor, K. K., & Evans, T. P. (2016). Modeling ecohydrological dynamics of smallholder strategies for food production in dryland agricultural systems. Environmental Research Letters, 11(11), 115005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/115005
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Matsumoto-Oda, A. & Collins, A. D. (2016). Two newly observed cases of fish-eating in Anubis Baboons. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 7(1), 5–9. doi:10.5178/lebs.2016.41
McNally, A., Shukla, S., Arsenault, K. R., Wang, S., Peters-Lidard, C. D., & Verdin, J. P. (2016). Evaluating ESA CCI soil moisture in East Africa. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation & Geoinformation, 48, 96-109. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2016.01.001
Milligan, P. D., Prior, K. M., & Palmer, T. M. (2016). An invasive ant reduces diversity but does not disrupt a key ecosystem function in an African savanna. Ecosphere, 7(10), e01502. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1502
O’Connor, D. A., Butt, B., & Foufopoulos, J. B. (2016). Mapping the ecological footprint of large livestock overlapping with wildlife in Kenyan pastoralist landscapes. African Journal of Ecology, 54(1), 114–117. doi:10.1111/aje.12241
Obonyo, M. O., Akoko, J. M., Orinde, A. B., Osoro, E., Boru, W. G., Njeru, I., & Fèvre, E. M. (2016). Suspected rabies in humans and animals, Laikipia County, Kenya. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(3), 551–553. doi:10.3201/eid2203.151118.
Ogada, D., Shaw, P., Beyers, R. L., Buij, R., Murn, C., Thiollay, J. M., Beale, C. M., Holdo, R. M., Pomeroy, D., Baker, N., Kruger, S. C., Botha, A., Virani, M. Z., Monadjem, A., & Sinclair, A. R. E. (2016). Another continental vulture crisis: Africa’s vultures collapsing towards extinction. Conservation Letters, 9(2), 89-97.
Pauly, A. (2016). Description de Patellapis (Chaetalictus) mpalaensis sp. nov. et redescription de P. (C.) virungae Timmermann, 2009 de l’Afrique orientale et centrale (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae). Belgian Journal of Entomology, 36, 1–11.
Porensky, L. M. & Young, T. P. (2016). Development of edge effects around experimental ecosystem hotspots is affected by hotspot density and matrix type. Landscape Ecology, 31(8), 1663–1680. doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0344-3
Potts, S.G., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V.L., Ngo, H.T., Biesmeijer, J.C., Breeze, T.D., Dicks, L.V.,… Viana, B.F. (2016). Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination, and food production. Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 1-30. retrieved from www.ipbes.net/assessment-reports/pollinators
Pringle, R. M., Prior, K. M., Palmer, T. M., Young, T. P., & Goheen, J. R. (2016). Large herbivores promote habitat specialization and beta diversity of African savanna trees. Ecology, 97(10), 2640–2657. doi: 10.1002/ecy.1522
Rubenstein, D. I., Cao, Q. & Chui, J. (2016). Equids and ecological niches: behavioral and life history variations on a common theme. In J.R. Ransom & P. Kaczencky (Eds.), Wild equids: Ecology, management, and conservation (pp. 58-68). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Rubenstein, D. I., Low Mackey, B., Davidson, Z. D., Kebede, F. & King, S. R. B. (2016). Equus grevyi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T7950A89624491.
Rubenstein, D. R. (2016). Superb starlings: cooperation and conflict in an unpredictable environment. In W. Koenig & J. Dickinson (Eds.), Cooperative breeding in vertebrates: Studies of ecology, evolution, and behavior (pp. 181–196). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Rubenstein, D. R., Skolnik, H., Berrio, A., Champagne, F. A., Phelps, S., & Solomon, J. (2016). Sex-specific fitness effects of unpredictable early life conditions are associated with DNA methylation in the avian glucocorticoid receptor. Molecular Ecology, 25(8), 1714–1728. doi:10.1111/mec.13483
Rudolph, K. P. & McEntee, J. P. (2016). Spoils of war and peace: enemy adoption and queen-right colony fusion follow costly intraspecific conflict in acacia ants. Behavioral Ecology, 27(3), 793–802. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv219
Schieltz, J. M. & Rubenstein, D. I. (2016). Evidence based review: positive versus negative effects of livestock grazing on wildlife. What do we really know? Environmental Research Letters, 11(11), 113003. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/113003
Smith, D. A., Gordon, I. J., Traut, W., Herren, J., Collins, S., Martins, D. J., Saitoti, K., & Ireri, P. (2016). A neo-W chromosome in a tropical butterfly links colour pattern, male-killing, and speciation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283(1835), 20160821. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0821
Strandburg-Peshkin, A. (2016). From fish schools to primate societies: The dynamics of collective movement in animal groups (Doctoral dissertation). Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Uyehara, I. K., Sisanya, M., Hemp, C., & Rubenstein, D. I. (2016). Effects of traditional pastoralism on grasshopper (Caelifera) assemblages in East Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 54(2), 167–173. doi:10.1111/aje.12279
Veblen, K. E., Porensky, L. M., Riginos, C., & Young, T. P. (2016). Are cattle surrogate wildlife? Savanna plant community composition explained by total herbivory more than herbivore type. Ecological Applications, 26(6), 1610–1623. doi:10.1890/15-1367.1
Young, H. S., Dirzo, R., Helgen, K. M., McCauley, D. J., Nunn, C., Snyder, P., Veblen, K. E., Zhao, S., & Ezenwa, V. O. (2016). Large wildlife removal drives redistribution of immune defenses in rodents. Functional Ecology, 30(5), 799-807. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12542

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2015

Apakupakul, K. & Rubenstein, D. R. (2015). Bateman’s Principle Is Reversed in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird. Biological Letters, 11(4), 1–4. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2015.0034
Awuor, F. O. (2015). Impacts of military training on the distribution and abundance of small versus large wildlife herbivores on Mpala Ranch, Laikipia, Kenya. African Journal of Ecology, 53(2), 1–4. doi:10.1111/aje.12210
Bernard, M., Menz, A., & Booth, L. (2015). The longevity of the magnet effect: fire-herbivory interactions in central Kenya. Consilience, (14), 207-213.
Bonachela, J.A., R.M. Pringle, E. Shefer, T.C. Coverdale, J.A. Guyon, K.K. Caylor, S.A. Levin, and C.E. Tarnita (2015). Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change. Science 347(6222): 651-655. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261487
Costelloe, B. R. & Rubenstein, D. I. (2015). Coping with transition: offspring risk and maternal behavioural changes at the end of the hiding phase. Animal Behavior, 109, 217–225. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.022
Deem, S. L., Fèvre, E.M., Kinnaird, M., Browne, A. S., Muloi, D., Godeke, G., Koopmans, M., & Reusken, C. B. (2015). Serological evidence of MERS-CoV antibodies in dromedary camels (Camelus dromedaries) in Laikipia County, Kenya. PloS One 12(5), e0178310. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140125
Ford, A.T. & Goheen, J.R. (2015a). Trophic cascades by large carnivores: a case for strong inference and mechanism. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 30(12), 725–735. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.09.012
Ford, A. T, & Goheen, J.R. (2015b). An experimental study on risk effects in a dwarf antelope, Madoqua guentheri. Journal of Mammalogy, 96(5), 918–926. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyv090.
Ford, A. T. (2015). The mechanistic pathways of trophic interactions in human-occupied landscapes. Science, 350(6265), 1175-1176. doi:10.1126/science.aad7134
Ford, A. T., Goheen, J.R., Augustine, D.J., Kinnaird, M., O’Brien, T.J., Palmer, T. M., Pringle, R.M., & Woodroffe, R. (2015). Recovery of African wild dogs suppresses prey but does not trigger a trophic cascade. Ecological Society of America, 96(10), 2705–2714. doi:10.1890/14-2056.1
Fraser, L. H., Pither, J. Jentsch, A., Sternberg, M., Zobel, M., Askarizadeh, D., Bartha, S., et al. (2015). Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness. Science, 349(6245), 302–306. doi:10.1126/science.aab3916
Iles, L. & Lane, P. (2015). Iron production in second millennium AD pastoralist contexts on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. Azania, 50(3), 372-401. doi:10.1080/0067270X.2015.1079379
Kartzinel, T. R., Chen, P. A., Coverdale, T. C., Erickson, D. L., Kress, W. J., Kuzmina, M. L., Rubenstein, D. I., Wang, W., & Pringle, R. M. (2015). DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(26), 8019–8024. doi:10.1073/pnas.1503283112
Larison, B., Harrigan, R. J., Thomassen, H. A., Rubenstein, D. I., Chan-Golston, A. M., Li, E., & Smith, T. B. (2015). How the zebra got its stripes: a problem with too many solutions. Royal Society Open Science, 2(1), 140452. doi:10.1098/rsos.140452
Larison, B., Harrigan, R.J., Rubenstein, D.I., & Smith, T.B. (2015) Concordance on zebra stripes is not black and white. Royal Society Open Science, 2(1), 140452.
McCauley, D.J., T. Dawson, M.E. Power, J.C. Finlay, M. Ogada, D. Gower, and K.K. Caylor (2015). Carbon stable isotopes suggest that hippopotamus-vectored nutrients subsidize aquatic consumers in an East African river. Ecosphere6(4): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00514.1
Mally, R., Korycinska, A., Agassiz, D. J. L., Hall, J., Hodgetts, J., & Nuss, M. (2015). Discovery of an unknown diversity of Leucinodes species damaging Solanaceae fruits in sub-Saharan Africa and moving in trade (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea). Zookeys, 472, 117–162. doi:10.3897/zookeys.472.8781
Matsumoto-Oda, A. (2015). How surviving baboons behaved after leopard predation: a case report. Anthropological Science, 123(1), 13-17. doi:10.1537/ase.150223
Ngatia, L., Turner, B., Njoka, J., Young, T., & Reddy, K. (2015). The effects of herbivory and nutrients on plant biomass and carbon storage in vertisols of an East African savanna. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 208, 55-63.
O’Connor, D. A., Butt B., & Foufopoulos, J. B. (2015). Foraging ecologies of giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata) and camels (Camelus dromedarius) in northern Kenya: effects of habitat structure and possibilities for competition? African Journal of Ecology, 53(2), 183–193. doi:10.1111/aje.12204
Odadi, W. O. & Rubenstein, D. I. (2015). Herd size-dependent effects of restricted foraging time allowance on cattle behavior, nutrition, and performance. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 68(4), 341-348. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2015.05.009
Oriol-Cotterill, A., Macdonald, D.W., Valeix, M., Ekwanga, S., and Frank, L.G. (2015). Spatiotemporal patterns of lion space use in a human-dominated landscape. Animal Behaviour, 101, 27–39. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.11.020
Palmer, T., Pringle, E., Stier, A., & Holt, R. (2015). Mutualism in a community context. In J. Bronstein, Mutualism (1st ed., pp. 159-180). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Pennisi, E. (2015). Africa’s Soil Engineers: Termites. Science, 347(6222), 596–597. doi:10.1126/science.347.6222.596
Pollack, L. & Rubenstein, D.R. (2015). The fitness consequences of kin-biased dispersal in a cooperatively breeding bird. Biology Letters, 11(7). doi:10.1098/rsbl.2015.0336
Porensky, L. M. & Veblen, K.E. (2015). Generation of ecosystem hotspots using short-term cattle corrals in an African savanna. Rangeland Ecology and Management, 68(2), 131–141. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2015.01.002
Pringle, R.M., D.M. Kimuyu, R.L. Sensenig, T.M. Palmer, C. Riginos, K.E. Veblen and T.P. Young. 2015. Synergistic effects of fire and elephants on arboreal animals in an African savannah. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 1637-1645. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12404
Riginos, C. (2015). Climate and the landscape of fear in an African savanna. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84, 124–133. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12262.
Rubenstein, D. I. (2015). Networks of terrestrial ungulates: linking form and function. In J. Krause, R. James, D.W. Franks & D.P. Croft (Eds.), Animal social networks (pp. 184-196). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Rubenstein, D.I., Berger-Wolf, T., Tantipathananandh, C., Sundaresan, S., & Fischoff, I. (2015). Similar but different: dynamic social network analysis highlights fundamental differences between the fission-fusion societies of two equid species, the onager and Grevy’s zebra. PLoS One, 10(10), e0138645. doi:10:1371/journal.pone.0138645
Schieltz, J.M. & Rubenstein, D.I. (2015). Caught between two worlds: genes and environment influence behaviour of plains and Grevy’s zebra hybrids in central Kenya. Animal Behaviour, 106, 17–26. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.04.026
Searchinger, T. D., Estes, L., Thornton, P. K., Beringer, T., Notenbaert, A., Rubenstein, D. I, Heimlich, R., Licker, R., & Herrero, M. (2015). High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland. Nature Climate Change, 5, 481-486. doi:10.1038/nclimate2584
Strandburg-Peshkin, A., Farine, D. R., Couzin, I. D., & Crofoot, M. C. (2015). Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons. Science, 348(6241), 1358–1361. doi:10.1126/science.aaa5099
Tong, W., Shapiro, B., & Rubenstein, D. I. (2015). Genetic relatedness in two-tiered plains zebra societies suggests that females choose to associate with kin. Behaviour, 152(15), 2059 – 2078. doi:10.1163/1568539X-00003314
Young, H. S., Dirzo, R., McCauley, D. J., Agwanda, B., Cattaneo, L., Dittmar, K., . . . Helgen, K. M. (2015). Drivers of intensity and prevalence of flea parasitism on small mammals in east african savanna ecosystems. Journal of Parasitology, 101: 327-335.
Young, H. S., Young, T. P., McCauley, D. J., Dirzo, R., Goheen, J. R., Agwanda, B., . . . Helgen, K. M. (2015). Context-dependent effects of large-wildlife declines on small-mammal communities in central Kenya. Ecological Applications, 25: 348-360.

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2014

Anderson-Teixeira, K.J., Davies, S.J., Bennett, A.C., Gonzalez-Akre, E.B., Muller-Landau, H.C., Wright, S.J., … Zimmerman, J. (2014). CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change. Global Change Biology, 21(2), 528-549. doi:10.1111/gcb.12712
Brown, J.W., Copeland, R.S., Aarvik, L., Miller, S.E., Rosati, M.E., & Luke, Q. (2014). Host records for fruit-feeding Afrotropical Tortricidae (Lepidoptera). African Entomology, 22(2), 343-376. doi:10.4001/003.022.0225
Dell’Angelo, J., P.F. McCord, E. Baldwin, M.E. Cox, D. Gower, K.K. Caylor, and T.P. Evans (2014). Multilevel governance of irrigation systems and adaptation to climate change in Kenya. In: Bhaduri, A., J. Bogardi, J. Leentvaar, and S. Marx (eds.), The Global Water System in the Anthropocene, pp. 323-341. Springer International. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07548-8_21
DePuy, W., Benka, V., Massey, A., Deem, S., Kinnaird, M.F., O’Brien, T., … & Hardin, R. (2014). Q fever risk across a dynamic, heterogeneous landscape in Laikipia County, Kenya. Ecohealth, 11(3), 429-433. doi:10.1007/s10393-014-0924-0
Dirzo, R., Young, H. S., Galetti, M., Ceballos, G., Isaac, N. J. B., & Collen, B. (2014). Defaunation in the anthropocene. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6195), 401-406.
Dolrenry, S., Stenglein, J., Hazzah, L., Lutz, R.S., & Frank, L. (2014). Metapopulation approach to African lion (Panthera leo) conservation. PLOS ONE, 9(2), e88081. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088081
Ford, A.T., Goheen, J.R., Otieno, T.O., Bidner, L., Isbell, L.A., Palmer, T.M., Ward, D., Woodroffe, R., & Pringle, R.M. (2014). Large carnivores make savanna tree communities less thorny. Science, 346(6207), 346-349. doi:10.1126/science.1252753
Foster, C.N., P.S. Barton, D.B. Lindenmayer. (2014). Effects of large native herbivores on other animals. Journal of Applied Ecology 51: 929–938.
Franz, T.E., Zreda, M., & King, E.G. (2014). Cosmic-ray soil moisture probe: a new technology to manage African dryland ecosystems. In L.K Heng, K. Sakadevan, G. Dercon, & M.L. Nguyen (Eds.), International Symposium on Managing Soils for Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (pp. 381–386). Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Good, S.P., K. Soderberg, K. Guan, E.G. King, T.M. Scanlon, and K.K. Caylor (2014). δ2H isotopic flux partitioning of evapotranspiration over a grass field following a water pulse and subsequent dry down. Water Resources Research 50(2): 1410-1432. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013WR014333
Kane, A., Jackson, A.L., Ogada, D.L., Monadjem, A., McNally, L., & Kane, A. (2014). Vultures acquire information on carcass location from scavenging eagles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281(1793), 20141072. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1072
Kartzinel, T.R., Goheen, J.R., Charles, G.K., Defranco, E., Maclean, J.E., Otieno, T., Palmer, T.M., & Pringle, R.M. (2014). Plant and small mammal responses to large-herbivore exclusion in a semi-arid African savanna: the first five years of the UHURU experiment. Ecology, 95, 787. (data paper: Ecological Archives E095-064-D1)
Kaye-Zwiebel, E. & King, E. (2014). Kenyan pastoralist societies in transition: varying perceptions of the value of ecosystem services. Ecology and Society, 19(3), 17. doi:10.5751/ES-06753-190317
Keesing, F. & Young, T.P. (2014). Cascading consequences of the loss of large mammals in an African savanna. Bioscience, 64(6), 487-405. doi:10.1093/biosci/biu059
Kendall, C.J., Virani, M.Z., Hopcraft, J.G.C., Bildstein, K.L., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2014). African vultures don’t follow migratory herds: scavenger habitat use is not mediated by prey abundance. PLoS ONE, 1(9), e83470. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083470
Kimuyu, D.K., Sensenig, R.L., Riginos, C., Veblen, K.E., & Young, T.P. (2014). Wild and domestic browsers and grazers reduce fuels, fire temperatures, and acacia ant mortality in an African savanna. Ecological Applications, 24(4), 741-749.
Lekerpes, S.S., Jung’a, J.O., Badamana, M.S., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2014). Genetic polymorphism of beta-lactoglobulin in Kenyan small East Africa goat breed using PCR-RFLP and sequencing. Journal of Animal Science, 3(8), 233-239. doi:10.14196/sjas.v3i9.1658
Louthan, A.M., Doak, D.F., Goheen, J.R., Palmer, T.M., & Pringle, R.M. (2014). Mechanisms of plant–plant interactions: concealment from herbivores is more important than abiotic-stress mediation in an African savannah. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281(1780), 2013264. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2647
Miller, S.E., R.S. Copeland, M.E. Rosati and P.D.N. Hebert. 2014. DNA barcodes of Microlepidoptera reared from native fruit in Kenya. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 116: 137-142.
Ngatia, L.W., Reddy, K.R., Naira, P.K.R., Pringle, R.M., Palmer, T.M., & Turner, B.L. (2014). Seasonal patterns in decomposition and nutrient release. Agriculture, Ecosystems, & Environment, 188, 12-19. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2014.02.004
Petipas, R.H. & Brody, A.K. (2014). Termites and ungulates affect arbuscular mycorrhizal richness and infectivity in a semi-arid savanna. Botany, 92(3), 233-240. doi:10.1139/cjb-2013-0223
Pringle, R.M., Goheen, J.R., Palmer, T.M., Charles, G.K., Defranco, E., Hohbein, R., Ford, A.T., & Tarnita, C. (2014). Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savanna. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281(1785), 20140390. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0390
Riginos, C., Karande, M.A., Rubenstein, D.I., & Palmer, T.M. (2014). Disruption of a protective ant- plant mutualism by an invasive ant increases elephant damage to savanna trees. Ecology, 96(3), 654-661. doi:10.1890/14-1348.1
Roberts, B.A. & Rubenstein, D.I. (2014). Maternal tactics for mitigating neonate predation risk during the postpartum period in Thomson’s gazelle. Behaviour, 151(9), 1229-1248. doi:10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.1534542
Scott, S.E., Copeland, R.S., Rosati, M.E., & Hebert, P.D.N. (2014). DNA barcodes of Microlepidoptera reared from native fruit in Kenya. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 116, 137-142. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.116.1.137
Shen, S., Akçay, E., & Rubenstein, D.R. (2014). Group size and social conflict in complex societies. The American Naturalist, 183(2), 301–310. doi:10.1086/674378
Tallis, H., Lubchenko, J., & 238 co-signatories (including Kinnaird, M.F.). (2014). Working together: a call for inclusive conservation. Nature, 515(7525), 27-28.
Tarnita, C.E., Palmer, T.M., & Pringle, R.M. (2014). Colonisation and competition dynamics can explain incomplete sterilisation parasitism in ant–plant symbioses. Ecology Letters, 17(10), 1290-1298. doi:10.1111/ele.12336
Toth, A.B., Lyons, S.K., & Behrensmeyer, A.K. (2014). A century of change in Kenya’s mammal communities: increased richness and decreased uniqueness in six protected areas. PLoS ONE, 9(4), e93092. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093092
Weinman, L.R., Solomon, J.W., & Rubenstein, D.R. (2014). A comparison of SNP and microsatellite markers for analysis of parentage and kinship in a cooperatively breeding bird. Molecular Ecology, 15(3), 502–511. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12330
Young, H. S., Dirzo, R., Helgen, K. M., McCauley, D. J., Billeter, S., Kosoy, M., Osikowicz, L., Young, T. P., & Dittmar, K. (2014). Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(19), 7036-7041. doi:10.1073/pnas.1404958111

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2013

Beauquier, J., Blanchard, P., Burman, J., & Delaët, S. (2013). Tight complexity analysis of population protocols with cover times – The ZebraNet example. Theoretical Computer Science, 512, 15-27. doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2012.10.032
Bergstrom, B.J. (2013). Would East African savanna rodents inhibit woody encroachment? Evidence from stable isotopes and microhistological analysis of feces. Journal of Mammalogy, 94(2), 436-447. doi:10.1644/12-MAMM-A-146.1
Crall, J.P., Stewart, C.V., Berger-Wolf, T.Y., Rubenstein, D. I., & Sundaresan, S.R. (2013). HotSpotter – patterned species instance recognition. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision. doi:10.1109/WACV.2013.6475023
Creel, S., Dantzer, B., Goymann, W., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2013). The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment. Functional Ecology, 27(1), 66-80. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02029.x
Dixit, A., S. Levin, and D. I Rubenstein. 2013. Reciprocal insurance among Kenyan pastoralists. DARPA. Theoretical Ecology 6(2): 173-187. DOI: 10.1007/s12080-012-0169-x.
Donihue, C.M., Porensky, L.M., Foufopoulus, J., Riginos, C., & Pringle, R.M. (2013). Glade cascades: indirect legacy effects of pastoralism enhance the abundance and spatial structuring of arboreal fauna. Ecology, 94(4), 827-837. doi:10.1890/12-0856.1
Goheen, JR, TM Palmer, GK Charles, KM Helgen, SN Kinyua, JE Maclean, BL Turner, HS Young, and RM Pringle. 2013. Piecewise disassembly of a large-herbivore community across a rainfall gradient: the UHURU experiment. PLoS ONE. 8(2):e55192. (Publication Link) (Download PDF)
Isbell, L.A. (2013). Erythrocebus patas Patas monkey. In J.S. Kingdon, D. Happold, T.M. Butynski, M. Hoffman, M. Happold, & J. Kalina (Eds.), The Mammals of Africa: Vol. II Primates (pp. 257-264). London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Isbell, L.A. & Jaffe, K.L.E. (2013). Chlorocebus pygerythrus Vervet monkey. In J.S. Kingdon, D. Happold, T.M. Butynski, M. Hoffman, M. Happold, & J. Kalina (Eds.), The Mammals of Africa: Vol II Primates (pp. 277-283). London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Isbell, L.A., Rothman, J.M., Young, P.J., & Rudolph, K. (2013). Nutritional benefits of Crematogaster mimosae ants and Acacia drepanolobium gum for patas monkeys and vervets in Laikipia, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150(2), 286-300. doi:10.1002/ajpa.22205
Keen, S.C., Meliza, C.D., & Rubenstein, D.R. (2013). Flight calls signal group and individual identity but not kinship in a cooperatively breeding bird. Behavioral Ecology, 24(6), 1279-1285.
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Chandler, M., Bebber, D.P., Castro, S., Lowman, M.D., Muoria, P., Oguge, N., & Rubenstein, D. I. (2012). International citizen science: making the local global. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(6), 328-331. doi:10.1890/110283
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Agassiz, D.J.L. (2011). The Lepidoptera of Acacia domatia in Kenya, with description of two new genera and six new species. Journal of Natural History, 45(29-30), 1867-1893. doi:10.1080/00222933.2011.565155
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Stanton, M.L. & Palmer, T.M. (2011). The high cost of mutualism: effects of four species of East African ant symbionts on their myrmecophyte host tree. Ecology, 92(5), 1073–1082. doi:10.1890/10-1239.1
Sundaresan, S.R., Riginos, C., & Abelson, E.S. (2011). Management and analysis of camera trap data: alternative approaches (response to Harris et al. 2010). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 92(2), 188-195. doi:10.1890/0012-9623-92.2.188
Woodroffe, R. (2011). Demography of a recovering African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) population. Journal of Mammalogy, 92(2), 305-315. doi:10.1644/10-MAMM-A-157.1
Woodroffe, R. & Donnelly, C.A. (2011). Risk of contact between endangered African wild dogs Lycaon pictus and domestic dogs: opportunities for pathogen transmission. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48(6), 1345-1354. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02059.x

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Adamski, D., Copeland, R.S., Miller, S.E., Hebert, P.D.N., Darrow, K., & Luke, Q. (2010). A review of African Blastobasinae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Coleophoridae), with new taxa reared from native fruits in Kenya. USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory, 58.
Augustine, D.J. 2010. Response of native ungulates to drought in semi-arid Kenyan rangeland. African Journal of Ecology, 48(4), 1009-1020. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2010.01207.x
Baldock, K., Memmott, J., Guajardo, J.R., Roze, D., & Stone, G. (2010). Daily temporal structure in African savannah flower-visitation networks, and consequences for network sampling. Ecology, 92(3), 687-698.
Brody, A.K., Palmer, T.M., Fox-Dobbs, K., & Doak, D.F. (2010). Termites, vertebrate herbivores, and the fruiting success of Acacia drepanolobium. Ecology, 91(2), 399-407.
Fischhoff, I.R., Sundaresan, S.R., Larkin, H.M., Sellier, M., Cordingley, J.E., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2010). A rare fight in female plains zebra. Journal of Ethology, 28, 201-205. doi:10.1007/s10164-009-0183-7
Fox-Dobbs, K., Doak, D.F., Brody, A.K., & Palmer, T.M. (2010). Termites create spatial structure and govern ecosystem function by affecting N² fixation in an East African savanna. Ecology, 91(5), 1296-1307. doi:10.1890/09-0653.1
Franz, T.E., Caylor, K.K., Nordbotten, J.M., Rodriguez-Iturbe, I., & Celia, M.A. (2010). An ecohydrological approach to predicting regional woody species distribution patterns in dryland ecosystems. Advances in Water Resources, 33(2), 215-230. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.12.003
Funston, P. J., Frank, L., Stephens, T., Davidson, Z., Loveridge, A., Macdonald, D.M., Durant, S., Packer, C., Mosser, A., & Ferreira, S.M. (2010). Substrate and species constraints on the use of track incidences to estimate African large carnivore abundance. Journal of Zoology, 281(1), 56-65. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00682.x
Goheen, J.R. & Palmer, T.M. (2010). Defensive plant-ants stabilize megaherbivore-driven landscape change in an African savanna. Current Biology, 20(19), 1768-1772. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.015
Goheen, J.R., Palmer, T.M., Keesing, F., Riginos, C., & Young, T.P. (2010). Large herbivores facilitate savanna tree establishment via diverse and indirect pathways. Journal of Animal Ecology, 79(2), 372-382. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01644.x
Gregory, N.C., Sensenig, R.L., & Wilcove, D.S. (2010). Effects of controlled fire and livestock grazing on bird communities in East African savannas. Conservation Biology, 24(6), 1606-1616. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01533.x
Jaffe, K.E. & Isbell, L.A. (2010). Changes in ranging and agonistic behavior of vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) after predator-induced group fusion. American Journal of Primatology, 72(7), 634–644. doi:10.1002/ajp.20821
Kiers, E.T., Palmer, T.M., Ives, A.R., Bruno, J., & Bronstein, J.L. (2010). Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective. Ecology Letters, 13(12), 1459-1474. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01538.x
Kirigia, Anthony. 2010. Livestock manure flow from rangelands to cultivated lands in central Kenya: a case study of Mukogodo Division, Laikipia District. M.Sc. Dissertation, University of Nairobi.
King, E.G. & Caylor, K.K. (2010). Herbivores and mutualistic ants interact to modify tree photosynthesis. New Phytologist, 187(1), 17-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03286.x
Kinyua, D.M., McGeoch, L.E., Georgiadis, N., & Young, T.P. (2010). Short-term and long-term effects of tilling, fertilization, and seeding on the restoration of a tropical rangeland. Restoration Ecology, 18(S1), 226-233. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00594.x
Kuria, S.K., Villet, M.H., Palmer, T.M., & Stanton, M.L. (2010). A comparison of two sampling methods for surveying mammalian herbivore impacts on beetle communities in the canopy of Acacia drepanolobium in Kenya. African Entomology, 18(1), 87-98. doi:10.4001/003.018.0109
Loveridge, A.J., Wang, S.W., Frank, L.G., & Seidensticker, J. (2010). People and wild felids: conservation of cats and management of conflicts. In Macdonald, D. & Loveridge, A.J. (Eds.), The biology and conservation of wild felids (pp. 161-195). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Martins, D.J. (2010). Not all ants are equal: obligate acacia ants provide different levels of protection against mega‐herbivores. African Journal of Ecology, 48(4), 1115-1122. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2010.01226.x
O’Brien, T.G. (2010). Wildlife picture index and biodiversity monitoring: issues and future directions. Animal Conservation, 13(4), 350-352. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00384.x
O’Brien, T.G., Baillie, J.E.M., Krueger, L., & Cuke, M. (2010). The Wildlife Picture Index: monitoring top trophic levels. Animal Conservation, 13(4), 335-343. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00357.x
Odadi, Wilfred O. 2010. Competitive and facilitative interactions between cattle and wild ungulates in a semi-arid savanna rangeland in Laikipia, Kenya. Ph.D. Dissertation, Egerton University.
Ogada, D.L. & Keesing, F. (2010). Decline of raptors over a three-year period in Laikipia, Central Kenya. Journal of Raptor Research, 44(2), 129-135. doi:10.3356/JRR-09-49.1
Palmer, T.M., Doak, D.F., Stanton, M.L., Bronstein, J.L., Kiers, E.T., Young, T.P., Goheen, J.R., & Pringle, R.M. (2010). Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(40), 17234-17239. doi:10.1073/pnas.1006872107
Pringle, R.M., Doak, D.F., Brody, A.K., Jocqué, R., & Palmer, T.M. (2010). Spatial pattern enhances ecosystem functioning in an African savanna. PLoS Biology, 8(5), e1000377. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000377
Riginos, C. & Herrick, J.E. (2010). Monitoring rangeland health: a guide for pastoralists and other land managers in Eastern Africa, version II. Nairobi, Kenya: ELMT-USAID/East Africa. Retrieved from https://mpala.org/Monitoring_Guide.pdf
Rubenstein, D.I. (2010). Ecology, social behavior, and conservation in zebras. In R. Macedo (Ed.), Advances in the study of behavior: behavioral ecology of tropical animals vol. 42 (pp. 231-258). Cambridge, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.
Sensenig, R., Demment, M., & Laca, E. (2010). Allometric scaling predicts preferences for burned patches in a guild of East African grazers. Ecology, 91(10), 2898-2907. doi:10.1890/09-1673.1
Stanton, M.L. & Palmer, T.M. (2010). The high cost of mutualism: effects of four species of East African ant symbionts on their myrmecophyte host tree. Ecology, 92(5), 1073-1082. doi:10.1890/10-1239.1
Sundaresan, S. & Riginos, C. (2010). Lessons learned from biodiversity conservation in the private lands of Laikipia, Kenya. Great Plains Research, 20, 17-28.
Treydte, A.C., Riginos, C., & Jeltsch, F. (2010). Enhanced use of beneath-canopy vegetation by grazing ungulates in African savannahs. Journal of Arid Environments, 74(12), 1597-1603. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.07.003
Veblen, K.E. & Young, T.P. (2010). Contrasting effects of cattle and wildlife on the vegetation development of a savanna landscape mosaic. Journal of Ecology, 98(5), 993-1001. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01705.x
Woodroffe, R. (2011). Ranging behaviour of African wild dog packs in a human-dominated landscape. Journal of Zoology, 283(2), 88-97. doi:j.1469-7998.2010.00747.x
Yusuf, A.A., Pirk, C.W.W., Crewe, R.M., Njagi, P.G.N., Gordon, I., & Torto, B. (2010). Nestmate recognition and the role of cuticular hydrocarbons in the African termite raiding ant Pachycondyla analis. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 36(4), 441-448. doi:10.1007/s10886-010-9774-6

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Campos, D.P., Bander, L.A., Raksi, A.R., & Blumstein, D.T. (2009). Perch exposure and predation risk: a comparative study in passerines. Acta Ethologica, 12(2), 93-98. doi:10.1007/s10211-009-0061-x
Cordingley, J.E., Sundaresan, S.R., Fischhoff, I.R., Shapiro, B., Ruskey, J., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2009). Is the endangered Grevy’s zebra threatened by hybridization? Animal Conservation, 12(6), 505-513. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00294.x
Cordingley, J.E., Sundaresan, S.R., Larison, B.J., Shapiro, B., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2009). Grevy’s zebra conservation: overcoming threats of isolation, genetic hybridization and demographic instability. Animal Conservation, 12(6), 520-521. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00336.x
Didier, K.A., Wilkie, D., Douglas-Hamilton, I., Frank, L., Georgiadis, N., Graham, M., Ihwagi, F.W., King, A., Cotterill, A.O., Rubenstein, D.I., & Woodroffe, R. (2009). Conservation planning on a budget: a “resource light” method for mapping priorities at a landscape scale? Biodiversity and Conservation, 18, 1979-2000. doi:10.1007/s10531-008-9568-0
Fischhoff, I.R., Dushoff, J., Sundaresan, S.R., Cordingley, J.E., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2009). Reproductive status influences group size and persistence of bonds in male plains zebra (Equus burchelli). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63(7), 1035-1043. doi:10.1007/s00265-009-0723-8
Fong, T.E., DeLong, T.W., Hogan, S.B., & Blumstein, D.T. (2009). The importance of indirect cues for white-browed sparrow-weaver (Plocepasser mahali) risk assessment. Acta Ethologica 12(2), 79-85. doi:10.1007/s10211-009-0059-4
Gurkovich, A. V. & V. V. Zolotuhin. (2009). A revision of the African Odontocheilopteryx Wallengren, 1860 (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 63, 77-101.
Hazzah, L., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., & Frank, L.G. (2009). Lions and warriors: social factors underlying declining African lion populations and the effect of incentive-based management in Kenya. Biological Conservation, 142(11), 2428-2437. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.06.006
Isbell, L.A., Young, T.P., Jaffe, K.E., Carlson, A.A., & Chancellor, R.L. (2009). Demography and life history of sympatric patas monkeys, Erythrocebus patas, and vervets, Cercopithecus aethiops, in Laikipia, Kenya. International Journal of Primatology, 30(1), 103-124. doi:10.1007/s10764-010-9444-0
Jaffe, K.E. & Isbell, L.A. (2009). After the fire: benefits of reduced ground cover for vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). American Journal of Primatology, 71(3), 252-260. doi:10.1002/ajp.20644
Kimathi, Isaac. 2009. Effects of fire treatments on the aboveground herbaceous layer primary production in the savanna ecosystem, Laikipia District, Kenya. M.Sc. Dissertation, University of Nairobi.
Laidre M.E. (2009). Informative breath: olfactory cues sought during social foraging among old world monkeys (Mandrillus sphinx, M. leucophaeus, and Papio anubis). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 123(1), 34–44. doi:10.1037/a0013129
Low, B., Sundaresan, S.R., Fischoff, I.R., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2009). Partnering with local communities to identify conservation priorities for endangered Grevy’s zebra. Biological Conservation, 142(7), 1548-1555. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.003
Maclennan, S.D., Groom, R. Macdonald, D. W., & Frank. L.G. (2009). Evaluation of a compensation scheme to bring about pastoralist tolerance of lions. Biological Conservation, 142(11), 2419-2427. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2008.12.003
McNutt, J.W. & Woodroffe, R. (2009). Lycaon pictus. In J.S. Kingdon, M. Hoffmann, T. Butynski, & D. Happold (Eds.), The Mammals of Africa Vol 5. Carnivora, Pholidota, Perissodactyla. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Muoria, P.K., Muruthi, P., Low, B., Omondi, P., Mutua, C.M., Benard, J., Oguge, N.O., King, J., Sundaresan, S.R., Chege, G., & Parker, G. (2009). Kenya launches national strategy to conserve Grevy’s zebra. Oryx, 43(2), 171-172.
Odadi, W.O., Okeyo-Owuor, J.B., & Young, T.P (2009). Behavioural responses of cattle to shared foraging with wild herbivores in an East Africa rangeland. Journal of Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 116(2), 120-125. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2008.08.010
Ogada, M.O., Aloo, P. A., & Muruthi, P. M. (2009). The African clawless otter Aonyx capensis (Schinz, 1821) and its diet as an indicator of crayfish invasion dynamics in aquatic systems. African Journal of Ecology, 47(1), 119-120. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00910.x
Riginos, C. (2009). Grass competition suppresses savanna tree growth across multiple demographic stages. Ecology, 90(2), 335-340. doi:10.1890/08-0462.1
Riginos, C., Grace, J.B., Augustine, D.J., & Young, T.P. (2009). Local versus landscape-scale effects of savanna trees on grasses. Journal of Ecology, 97(6), 1337-1345. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01563.x
Rubenstein, D.I. & Nuñez, C. (2009). Sociality and reproductive skew in horses and zebras. In R. Hager & C.B. Jones (Eds.), Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates: Proximate and Ultimate Causes (pp. 196-226). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Rubenstein, D.R. & Lovette, I.J. (2009). Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species. Nature, 462(7274), 786-789. doi:10.1038/nature08614
Rubenstein, D.R. & Shen, S.F. (2009). Reproductive conflict and the costs of social status in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. The American Naturalist, 173(5), 650-661. doi:10.1086/597606
Rubin, B.E., Makarewich, C.A., Talaba, A.L., Stenzler, L., Bogdanowicz, S.M., & Lovettet, I.J. (2009). Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from the acacia-ant Crematogaster mimosae. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9(4), 1212-1214. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02614.x
Shorrocks, B. & Croft, D.P. (2009). Necks and networks: a preliminary study of population structure in the reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata de Winston). African Journal of Ecology, 47(3), 374-381. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2008.00984.x
Sundaresan, S.R., Fischoff, I.R., & Dushoff, J. (2009). Avoiding spurious findings of nonrandom social structure in association data. Animal Behaviour, 77(6), 1381-1385. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.021
Woodroffe, R., Chapman, K. & Lemusana, E. (2009). Solitary breeding in an African wild dog (Lycaon pictus). African Journal of Ecology, 47(4), 790-791. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2008.00979.x
Zolotuhin, V. V. & Gurkovich, A. V. (2009). A review of the genus Pachypasa Walker, 1855 sensu lato in Africa (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 63, 1-75.

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Coleman, A., Richardson, D., Schechter, R., & Blumstein, D.T. (2008). Does habituation to humans influence predator discrimination in Gunther’s dik-diks (Madoqua guentheri)? Biology Letters, 4(3), 250-252. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0078
De Jong, Y.A., Butynski, T.M., & Nekaris, K.A.I. (2008). Distribution and conservation of the patas monkey Erythrocebus patas in Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History, 97(1), 83-102. doi:10.2982/0012-8317(2008)97[83:DACOTP]2.0.CO;2
Dominy, N.J., Vogel, E.R., Yeakel, J.D., Constantino, P., & Lucas, P.W. (2008). Mechanical properties of plant underground storage organs and implications for dietary models of early hominins. Evolutionary Biology, 35(3), 159-175. doi:10.1007/s11692-008-9026-7
Franceschini, M.D., Rubenstein, D.I., Low, B., & Romero, L.M. (2008). Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite analysis as an indicator of stress during translocation and acclimation in an endangered large mammal, the Grevy’s zebra. Animal Conservation, 11(4), 263-269. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2008.00175.x
Gordon, R.D. & Barbero, E. (2008). Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Mpala Research Centre and environs, Laikipia District, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History, 97, 135-164. doi:10.2982/0012-8317-97.2.135
Gordon, R.D., Bordat, P., Dellacasa, G., Dellacasa, M. 2008. Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) of the Mpala Research Centre and environs, Laikipia District, Kenya. Insecta Mundi, 28, 1-15.
Laidre, M.E. 2008. Spontaneous performance of wild baboons on three novel food-access puzzles. Animal Cognition, 11(2), 223-230.
Lea, A.J., Barrera, J.P., Tom, L.M., & Blumstein, D.T. (2008). Heterospecific eavesdropping in a nonsocial species. Behavioral Ecology, 19(5), 1041-1046. doi:10.1093/beheco/arn064
Lovette, I.J., McCleery, B.V., Talaba, A.L., & Rubenstein, D.R. (2008). A complete species-level molecular phylogeny for the “Eurasian” starlings (Sturnidae: Sturnus, Acridotheres, and allies): recent diversification in a highly social and dispersive avian group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 47(1), 251-260. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.020
Martin II, L.B. & Rubenstein, D.R. (2008). Stress hormones in tropical birds: patterns and future directions. Ornitologia Neotropical, 19, 207-218.
McCauley, D.J., Keesing, F., Young, T.P., & Dittmar, K. (2008). Effects of the removal of large herbivores on fleas of small mammals. Journal of Vector Ecology, 33(2), 263-268. doi:10.3376/1081-1710-33.2.263
Off, E.C., Isbell, L.A., & Young, T.P. (2008). Population density and habitat preferences of the Kenya lesser galago (Galago senegalensis braccatus) along the Ewaso Nyiro River, Laikipia, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History, 97(1), 109-116. doi:10.2982/0012-8317(2008)97[109:PDAHPO]2.0.CO;2
Ogada, D.L., Gadd, M.E., Ostfeld, R.S., Young, T.P., & Keesing, F. (2008). Impacts of large herbivorous mammals on bird diversity and abundance in an African savanna. Oecologia, 156(2), 387-397. doi:10.1007/s00442-008-0994-1
Okello, B.D., Young, T.P., Riginos, C., Kelly, D., & O’Connor, T.G. (2008). Short-term survival and long-term mortality of Acacia drepanolobium after a controlled burn. African Journal of Ecology, 46(3), 395-401. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00872.x
Palmer, T.M., Stanton, M.L., Young, T.P., Goheen, J.R., Pringle, R.M., & Karban, R. (2008). Breakdown of an ant-plant mutualism follows the loss of large herbivores from an African savanna. Science, 319(5860), 192-195. doi:10.1126/science.1151579
Pringle, R.M. (2008). Elephants as agents of habitat creation for small vertebrates at the patch scale. Ecology, 89(1), 26-33.
Pringle, R.M. & Fox-Dobbs, K. (2008). Coupling of canopy and understory food webs by ground-dwelling predators. Ecology Letters, 11(12), 1328-1337. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01252.x
Riginos, Corinna. 2008. Tree-grass interactions in an East African savanna: the role of wild and domestic herbivores. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis.
Riginos, C. & Grace, J.B. (2008). Savanna tree density, herbivores, and the herbaceous community: bottom-up vs. top-down effects. Ecology, 89(8), 2228-2238.
Romañach, S.S. & Lindsey, P.A. (2008). Conservation implications of prey responses to wild dogs Lycaon pictus during the denning season on wildlife ranches. Animal Conservation, 11(2), 111-117. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.2007.00156.x
Shorrocks, B., Cristescu, B., & Magane, S. (2008). Estimating density of Kirk’s dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii Gunther), impala (Aepyceros melampus Lichtenstein) and common zebra (Equus burchelli Gray) at Mpala, Laikipia District, Kenya. African Journal of Ecology, 46(4), 612-619. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00915.x
Sundaresan, S.R., Fischhoff, I.R., Hartung, H.M., Akilong, P., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2008). Habitat choice of Grevy’s zebras (Equus grevyi) in Laikipia, Kenya. African Journal of Ecology, 46(3), 359-364. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00848.x
Veblen, Kari E. 2008. Livestock and wildlife effects on the successional development of a savanna landscape mosaic in East Africa. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis.
Veblen, K.E. (2008). Season- and herbivore-dependent competition and facilitation in a semiarid savanna. Ecology, 89(6), 1532-1540. doi:10.1890/07-0973.1

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Fischhoff, I.R., Sundaresan, S.R., Cordingley, J., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2007). Habitat use and movements of plains zebra (Equus burchelli) in response to predation in danger from lions. Behavioral Ecology, 18(4), 725-729. doi:10.1093/beheco/arm036
Fischhoff, I.R., Sundaresan, S.R., Cordingley, J.L., Larkin, H.M., Sellier, M.J., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2007). Social relationships and reproductive state influence leadership roles in movements of plains zebra, Equus burchelli. Animal Behaviour, 73(5), 825-831
Georgiadis, N.J., Olwero, J.G.N., Ojwang, G., & Romañach, S.S. (2007a). Savanna herbivore dynamics in a livestock-dominated landscape: I. Dependence on land use, rainfall, density, and time. Biological Conservation, 137, 461-472. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.03.005
Georgiadis, N.J., Ihwagi, F., Olwero, J.G.N., & Romañach, S.S. (2007b). Savanna herbivore dynamics in a livestock-dominated landscape. II: Ecological, conservation, and management implications of predator restoration. Biological Conservation, 137(3), 473-483. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.03.006
Goheen, J.R., Young, T.P., Keesing, F., & Palmer, T.M. (2007). Consequences of herbivory by native ungulates for the reproduction of a savanna tree. Journal of Ecology, 95(1), 129-138. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01196.x
Isbell, L.A. & Chism, J. (2007). Distribution and abundance of patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) in Laikipia, Kenya, 1979-2004. American Journal of Primatology, 69(11), 1223-1235. doi:10.1002/ajp.20427
Isbell, L.A. & Young, T.P. (2007). Interspecific and temporal variation of ant species within Acacia drepanolobium ant domatia, a staple food of patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) in Laikipia, Kenya. American Journal of Primatology, 69(12), 1387-1398. doi:10.1002/ajp.20444
Lovette, I.J. & Rubenstein, D.R. (2007). A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 44(3), 1031-1056.
Martins, D.J. & Johnson, S.D. (2007). Hawkmoth pollination of aerangoid orchids in Kenya, with special reference to nectar sugar concentration gradients in the floral spurs. American Journal of Botany, 94(4), 650-659. doi:10.3732/ajb.94.4.650
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Okello, Bell D.N. 2007. 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.
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Augustine, D.J. & McNaughton, S.J. (2006). Interactive effects of ungulate herbivores, soil fertility, and variable rainfall on ecosystem processes in a semi-arid savanna. Ecosystems, 9(8), 1242-1256. doi:10.1007/s10021-005-0020-y
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Bailis, R., Ezzati, M., & Kammen, D.M. (2005). Mortality and greenhouse gas impacts of biomass and petroleum energy futures in Africa. Science, 308(5718), 98-103. doi:10.1126/science.1106881
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Augustine, D.J. (2004). Influence of cattle management on habitat selection by impala on central Kenya rangeland. Journal of Wildlife Management, 68(4), 916-923. doi:10.2193/0022-541X(2004)068[0916:IOCMOH]2.0.CO;2
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Augustine, D.J. (2003). Long-term, livestock-mediated redistribution of nitrogen and phosphorous in an East African savanna. Journal of Applied Ecology, 40(1), 137-149. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2664.2003.00778.x
Augustine, D.J. (2003). Spatial heterogeneity in the herbaceous layer of a semi-arid savanna ecosystem. Plant Ecology, 167(2), 319-332. doi:10.1023/A:102392751290
Augustine, D.J., McNaughton, S.J., & Frank, D.A. (2003). Feedbacks between soil nutrients and large herbivores in a managed savanna ecosystem. Ecological Applications, 13(5), 1325-1337. doi:10.1890/02-5283
Bailis, R., Ezzati, M., & Kammen, D.M. (2003). Greenhouse gas implications of household energy technology in Kenya. Environmental Science & Technology, 37(10), 2051-2059. doi:10.1021/es026058q
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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(2), 192-193. doi:10.1046/j.0141-6707.2002.00416.x
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Hahn, N.E., Proulx, D., Muruthi, P.M., Alberts, S., & Altmann, J. (2003). Gastrointestinal parasites in free-ranging Kenyan baboons (Papio cynocephalus and P. anubis). International Journal of Primatology, 24(2), 271-279. doi:10.1023/A:1023092915171
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Comstock, K.E., Georgiadis, N., Pecon-Slattery, J., Roca, A.L., Ostrander, E.A., O’Brien, S.J., & Wasser, S.K. (2002). Patterns of molecular genetic variation among African elephant populations. Molecular Ecology, 11(12), 2489-2498. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.2002.01615.x
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Carlson, A.A. & Isbell, L.A. (2001). Causes and consequences of single-male and multimale mating in free-ranging patas monkeys, Erythrocebus patas. Animal Behavior, 62(6), 1047-1058. doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1849
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Ezzati, M. & Kammen, D.M. (2001). Quantifying the effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on acute respiratory infections in developing countries. Environmental Health Perspectives, 109(5), 481-488. doi:10.1289/ehp.01109481
Frank, L.G. & Woodroffe, R. (2001). Behavior of carnivores in exploited and controlled populations. In D. McDonald, R.K. Wayne, & S. Funk (eds.), Carnivore Conservation: Proceedings of the Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, (pp. 419-442).
Gadd, M.E., Young, T.P., & Palmer, T.M. (2001). Effects of simulated shoot and leaf herbivory on vegetative growth and plant defense in Acacia drepanolobium. Oikos, 92(3), 515-521. 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.920312.x
Garraffo, H.M., Spande, T.F., Jain, P., Kaneko, T., Jones, T.H., Blum, M.S., Ali, T.M., Snelling, R.R., Isbell, L.A, Robertson, H.G., & Daly, J.W. (2001). Ammonia chemical ionization tandem mass spectrometry in structural determination of alkaloids. II. Tetraponerines from pseudomyrmecine ants. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 15(16), 1409-1415. doi:10.1002/rcm.382
Kagori, John Mugo. 1999. Biological nitrogen fixation of Acacia drepanolobium. M.Sc. Dissertation, University of Nairobi.
Keesing, F. & Crawford, T. (2001). Impacts of density and large mammals on space use by the pouched mouse (Saccostomus mearnsi) in central Kenya. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 17(3), 465-472. doi:10.1017/S0266467401001328
Khaemba, W.M., Stein, A., Rasch, D., De Leeuw, J., & Georgiadis, N. (2001). Empirically simulated study to compare and validate sampling methods used in aerial surveys of wildlife populations. African Journal of Ecology, 39(4), 374-382. doi:10.1046/j.0141-6707.2001.00329.x
Metz, M.R. & Keesing, F. (2001). Dietary choices of the pouched mouse (Saccostomus mearnsi) in central Kenya. Biotropica, 33(1), 182-187. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2001.tb00167
Miller, S.E. & Lazell, J.D. (2001). A herpetological reconnaissance of Mpala Research Centre, Laikipia, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History, 90(1), 103-107. doi:10.2982/0012-8317(2001)90[103:AHROMR]2.0.CO;2
Miller, S.E. & Rogo, L.M. (2001). Challenges and opportunities in understanding and utilization of African insect diversity. Cimbebasia, 17, 197-218.
Misurelli, Darcy L. 2001. Large ungulate impacts on bird populations in an East African savanna. M.Sc. Dissertation, SUNY Albany.
Okello, B.D., O’Connor, T.G., & Young, T.P. (2001). Growth, biomass estimates, and charcoal production of Acacia drepanolobium in Laikipia, Kenya. Forest Ecology and Management, 142(1-3), 143-153. doi:10.1016/S0378-1127(00)00346-7
Roca, A.L., Georgiadis, N., Pecon-Slattery, J., & O’Brien, S.J. (2001). Genetic evidence for two species of elephant in Africa. Science, 293(5534), 1473-1477. doi:10.112/science.1059936
Vogel, G. (2001). African elephant species splits in two. Science, 293(5534), 1414. doi:10.1126/science.293.5534.1414a

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2000

Ezzati, M., Mbinda, B.M., & Kammen, D.M. (2000). Comparison of emissions and residential exposure from traditional and improved cookstoves in Kenya. Environmental Science and Technology, 34(4), 578-583. doi:10.1021/es9905795
Ezzati, M., Saleh, H., & Kammen, D.M. (2000). The contributions of emissions and spatial microenvironments to exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass combustion in Kenya. Environmental Health Perspectives, 108(9), 833-839. doi:10.1289/ehp.00108833
Keesing, F. (2000). Cryptic consumers and the ecology of an African savanna. BioScience, 50(3), 205-215. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0205:CCATEO]2.3.CO;2
Okello, B.D., & Young, T.P. (2000). Effects of fire, bruchid beetles and soil type on germination and seedling establishment of Acacia drepanolobium. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 17(1-3), 46-51. doi:10.2989/10220110009485738
Palmer, T.M., Young, T.P., Stanton, M.L., & Wenk, E. (2000). Short-term dynamics of an acacia ant community in Laikipia, Kenya. Oecologia, 123(3), 425-435. doi:10.1007/s004420051030
Pruetz, J.D., & Isbell, L.A. (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. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 49(1), 38-47. doi:10.1007/s002650000272
Young, T.P. (2000). Restoration ecology and conservation biology. Biological Conservation, 92, 73-83. doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00057-9

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1999

Greenwood, A.D., Capelli, C., Possnert, G., & Paabo, S. (1999). Nuclear DNA sequences from Late Pleistocene megafauna. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 16(11), 1466-1473. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026058
Isbell, L.A., Pruetz, J.D., Lewis, M., & Young, T.P. (1999). Rank differences in ecological behavior: a comparative study of patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) and vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops). International Journal of Primatology, 20(2), 257-272. doi:10.1023/A:1020574504017
Isbell, L.A., Pruetz, J.D., Nzuma, B.M., & Young, T.P. (1999). Comparing measures of travel distances in primates: Methodological considerations and socioecological implications. American Journal of Primatology, 48(2), 87-98.doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-2345(1999)48:2<87::AID-AJP1>3.0.CO;2-G
John Mugo Kagori. 1999. Biological nitrogen fixation of Acacia drepanolobium. M.Sc. Dissertation, University of Nairobi.
Stanton, M.L., Palmer, T.M., Young, T.P., Evans, A., & Turner, M.L. (1999). Sterilization and canopy modification of a swollen thorn acacia tree by a plant-ant. Nature, 401(6753), 578-581. doi:10.1038/44119

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1998

Isbell, L.A. (1998). Diet for a small primate: insectivory and gummivory in the (large) patas monkey (Erythroocebus patas pyrrhonotus). American Journal of Primatology, 45(4), 381-398. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-2345(1998)45:4<381:AID-AJP5>3.0.CO;2-S
Isbell, L.A. & Pruetz, J.D. (1998). Differences between vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) in agonistic interactions between adult females. International Journal of Primatology, 19(5), 837-855. doi:10.1023/A:1020393329574
Isbell, L.A., Pruetz, J.D., Lewis, M., & Young, T.P. (1998). Locomotor activity differences between sympatric patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) and vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops): implications for the evolution of long hindlimb length in Homo. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 105(2), 199-207. doi:10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(199802)105:2<199:aid-ajpa7>3.0.co;2-q
Isbell, L.A., Pruetz, J.D., & Young, T.P. (1998). Movements of vervets (Cercopithecus aethiops) and patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) as estimators of food resource size, density, and distribution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 42(2), 123-133. doi:10.1007/s002650050420
Keesing, F. (1998). Ecology and behavior of the pouched mouse, Saccostomus mearnsi, in central Kenya. Journal of Mammalogy, 79(3), 919-931. doi:10.2307/1383100
Keesing, F. (1998). Impacts of ungulates on the demography and diversity of small mammals in central Kenya. Oecologia, 116(3), 381-389. doi:10.1007/s004420050601
McNaughton, S.J., Stronach, N.R.H., & Georgiadis, N.J. (1998). Combustion in natural fires and global emissions budgets. Ecological Applications, 8(2), 464-468. doi: 10.2307/2641086
Young, T.P. & Okello, B.D. (1998). Relaxation of an induced defense after exclusion of herbivores: spines on Acacia drepanolobium. Oecologia, 115(4), 508-513. doi:10.1007/s004420050548
Young, T.P., Okello, B.D., Kinyua, D., & Palmer, T.M. (1998). KLEE: a long-term multi-species herbivore exclusion experiment in Laikipia, Kenya. African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 14(3), 94-104. doi:10.1080/10220119.1997.9647929
Keesing, Felicia. 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.

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1997

Young, T.P., Stubblefield, C.H., Isbell, L.A. 1997. Ants on swollen-thorn acacias: species coexistence in a simple system. Oecologia 109(1), 98-107. doi: 10.1007/s004420050063

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1996

Isbell, L.A., Van Vuren, D. 1996. Differential costs of locational and social dispersal and their consequences for female group-living primates. Behaviour 133 (1), 1 – 36. doi:10.1163/156853996×00017

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1995

Young, T.P. 1995. Landscape mosaics created by canopy gaps, forest edges and bushland glades. Selbyana 16(2): 127-134.
Young, T.P., Partridge, N., Macrae, A. 1995. Long-term glades in acacia bushland and their edge effects in Laikipia, Kenya. Ecological Applications 5(1), 97-108. https://doi.org/10.2307/1942055Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

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