Research Context Soils of Serengeti have been characterised at relatively broad scales (Jager, 1982; Scoon, 2018; Hengl et al., 2015) and are an important influence on vegetation cover and biodiversity (Timbuka and Kabigumila, 2006; Sinclair et al., 2008; Mbise, 2015). The disturbance ecology on the kopje rock outcrops themselves has not investigated in much detail. […]
New paper on Land Use and Land Cover Change
Dr Rebecca Kariuki has led a new publications on stakeholder perspectives on Land Use and Land Cover Change in the near future of northern Tanzania. The publication is available as open access from PLoS ONE. Kariuki, RW, Munishi L, Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Capitani C, Shoemaker A, Lane P, Marchant R. 2021. Integrating stakeholders’ perspectives and spatial modelling […]
Western Serengeti research dissemination workshop
In early December 2020, two ARCC researchers, Dr. Rebecca Kariuki and Dr. Linus Munishi led a research dissemination workshop at Balili Rock Resort in Bunda town, northwestern Tanzania. The workshop aimed to give feedback, disseminate and discuss modelled future land cover change scenarios for the wider Serengeti ecosystem that diverse stakeholders from the Serengeti ecosystem […]
ARCC archaeologists at Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity Conference
ARCC project members Paul Lane, Anneli Ekblom, and Anna Shoemaker recently attended the international conference on human diversity (May 22-25), hosted by the Schlebusch Lab, Uppsala University. Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity Conference was dedicated to exploring diversity in relation to crucial chapters of past and recent African history from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The conference covered an […]