ertain obscure nooks tucked away inAfrica's savannas,under thevast skies of the Serengeti,or perched highin theAmazon canopy host raw,untamed,and feeting scenes that might never be witnessed by human eyes if not for w...
We studied the foraging processes of wildebeest using an advection-diffusion equation. We equipped the model with data collected between 1999 and 2007 from the Serengeti ecosystem from 18 GPS-collared wildebeest. Resu...
Law enforcement remains to be the main strategy used to combat poaching and account for high budget share in protected area management. Studies on efficiency of wildlife law enforcement in the protected areas are limi...
Interaction between prey and predator species is a complex and non-linear process. Understanding various phenomena in the dynamics of prey-predator systems is vital to both mathematical ecology and conservation biolog...
As one of the last remaining naturally grazed ecosystems on Earth,the Serengeti National Park is an ideal location to study the influence of migratory mammals on the structure of microbial communities and the factors ...
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant Nos.2016YFC1202000,2016YFC1202002);by the International Development Research Center(IDRC),Canada(grant No.108100–001).
Background:Human African trypanosomiasis(HAT)is one of the most complex parasitic diseases known to humankind.It usually occurs in endemic areas in Africa,but is occasionally detected in returning travelers and migran...
Serengeti is the largest ecosystem in Tanzania endowed with high level of biodiversity in protected and unprotected areas. Serengeti National Park is the only protected area in a matrix of unprotected areas characteri...
We develop a two-species prey-predator model in which prey is wildebeest and predator is lion. The threats to wildebeest are poaching and drought while to lion are retaliatory killing and drought. The system is found ...
Using 2009/2010 cropping season survey data from 181 randomly selected smallholder tobacco farmers, this study provides baseline information on tobacco farming in Mara region. Both descriptive and inferential statisti...