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Research Outputs

This section of this web site will provide potential collaborators and interested individuals with direct access to KITE research output.  A list of publications and conference presentations are provided.  In addition, a reference database containing relevant literature is included.





Publications

Marchant, R, Finch, J, Kinjanjuyi, R, Muiruri, V, Mumbi, C, Platts, PJ & Rucina, S (2010). Palaeoenvironmental perspectives for sustainable development in East Africa. Climate of the Past Discussions 6, 963-1007

Platts, PJ, Ahrends, A, Gereau, RE, McClean, CJ, Lovett, JC, Marshall, AR, Pellikka, PKE, Mulligan, M, Fanning, E & Marchant, R (2010). Can distribution models help refine inventory-based estimates of conservation priority? A case study in the Eastern Arc forests of Tanzania and Kenya. Diversity and Distributions 16, 628-642

Marshall, AR, Jørgensbye, HIO, Rovero, F, Platts, PJ, White, PCL & Lovett, JC (2010). The species-area relationship and confounding variables in a threatened monkey community. American Journal of Primatology 72, 325-336

Platts, PJ, McClean, CJ, Lovett, JC & Marchant, R (2008). Predicting tree distributions in an East African biodiversity hotspot: model selection, data bias and envelope uncertainty. Ecological Modelling 218, 121-134

Marchant, R (submitted). The impact of increased atmospheric CO2 on African ecosystems: the greening of the Sahara.

Finch, J, Leng, MJ & Marchant, R (2009). Late Quaternary vegetation dynamics in a biodiversity hotspot, the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania. Quaternary Research 72, 111-122

Chapman, H & Marchant, R. (submitted). Afromontane forests – Biogeography and Ecology with reference to Global Change.

Mumbi, CT, Hooghiemstra, H, Marchant, RA & Wooller, MJ (2008). Late Quaternary vegetation reconstruction from a dry Afromontane forest in the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Quaternary Research 69, 326-341

Marchant, RA, Behera, S, Yamagata, T & Mumbi, CT (2007). The Indian Ocean Dipole - the unsung driver of climatic variability in East Africa.  African Journal of Ecology 45, 4-16

 

Conference Presentations

Oral presentations:

Marchant, R., Ahrends, A., Finch, J., Jump, A., Lovett, J., McClean, C., Mumbi C., Platts P. and Rucina, S. (2007) Afromontane ecosystem stability or change? Combining methodologies from a biodiverse area. Invited presentation, Global Change Research Network in African Mountains Kampala, Uganda

Muiruri V.M. and Marchant R.A. (2007) Detecting environmental change and anthropogenic activities on the Laikipia plateau, Kenya. Invited presentation, British Institute in Eastern Africa, London, UK

Platts P. Lovett, J. McClean, C., Marchant, R.A., Ahrends, A. Burgess, N., Finch, J.M. and Jump, A. (2007) Wetter or drier ? Past, preset and future impacts of climate change-induced ecosystem shifts within a tropical African biodiversity hotspot. Invited presentation, International Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology (gtö), 20th Anniversary Meeting. Bonn, Germany

Ahrends, A. (2007) Bridging the past and the future – phytogeograpy of the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania, Environment Department research workshop, University of York, UK.

Marchant, R.A., Ahrends, A. Finch, J.M., Jump, A., Lovett, J., McClean, C. and Platts P. (2006) Afromontane ecosystem stability or change? Combining methodologies from a biodiverse area. Invited presentation, Tropical Ecology seminar series, University of Göttingen Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology, Göttingen, Germany

Marchant, R.A., Ahrends, A. Finch, J.M., Jump, A., Lovett, J., McClean, C. and Platts P. (2006) Afromontane ecosystem dynamics – the role of the Indian Ocean? Invited presentation, .Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokohama, Japan.

Marchant, R.A. (2006) Tropical ecosystem dynamics, Invited oral presentation, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo. Japan

Marchant, R.A., Ahrends, A. Finch, J.M., Jump, A., Lovett, J., McClean, C. and Platts P. (2006) Past, present and future Eastern Arc Mountain ecosystem dynamics: developing methodologies. Annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Philadelphia, USA

Marchant, R.A., Ahrends, A. Finch, J.M., Jump, A., Lovett, J., McClean, C. and Platts P. (2006). Eastern Arc Mountain ecosystem stability or change. International conference on ecosystem change and implications for livelihoods of rural communities in Africa. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania


Poster presentations:

Finch, J.M., Marchant, R., Ahrends, A., Leng, M., Mumbi, C., Platts P. and Wooller, M. (2007) Vegetation history of a biodiversity hotspot: the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. East African Quaternary Research Society (EAQUA), Kampala, Uganda.

Jump, A.S., Ahrends, A., Marchant, R.M. (2007) From genes to communities: do lpatterns of diversity correlate across multiple organisational levels? Speciation and Ecology, BES Annual Symposium, University of Sheffield.

Ahrends, A., Marchant, R.A. and Lovett, J. (2007) Bridging the past and the future – phytogeographic research in the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. 3rd Conference of the International Biogeography Society, Tenerife, Spain.

Finch, J.M., Marchant, R.A., Lovett, J., McClean, C., Ahrends, A., Mumbi, C.T., Rucina, S. (2006) The York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics (KITE).  European Marie Curie Conference 2006: MC2 - Manchester.

Marchant R.A. and Hooghiemstra, H. (2006) Rapid environmental change and cultural connections the tropics around 4000 years before present: a review. Earth System Science Partnership Open Science Conference, Beijing, China.

Marchant, R.A., Ahrends, A., Finch, J.M., Jump, A., Lovett, J., McClean, C., Mumbi, C. Platts, P., Rucina, S. (2006) The York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics (KITE). Earth System Science Partnership Open Science Conference, Beijing, China.

Marchant, R.A., Ahrends, A. Finch, J.M., Jump, A., Lovett, J., McClean, C. and Platts P. (2006) Past, present and future Eastern Arc Mountain ecosystem dynamics: developing methodologies. Earth System Science Partnership Open Science Conference, Beijing, China.

Marchant, R.A., Lovett, J., McClean, C., Ahrends, A. Finch, J.M., Mumbi, C. and Rucina, S. (2005) Climate Change Science in Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.


Reference Database

Search our reference database for relevant literature.  The database is provided in an Endnote version 9.0.0 library and can be downloaded by clicking on the following link:

KITE Database

Thus far, our database contains 1274 records specific to our research.

       
 

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Andy Marshall has joined the team on a new project modelling relationships between ecosystem dynamics, climate change, and human impacts along the Amboseli and Cross boarder National Park area of Kenya and Tanzania.

 

The recently published TRAFFIC report into logging in Tanzania is available to download here.

Click here for more details of recent and upcoming KITE activity.

 


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South African National Botanical Institute
African Biota Project
International Union for Quaternary Research
XVII INQUA Congress 2007
African Pollen Database
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