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Habel, Jan Christian, Camilo Zamora, Dennis Rödder, Mike Teucher, Ivon Cuadros-Casanova, and Christina Fischer. "Using indicator species to detect high quality habitats in an East African forest biodiversity hotspot." Biodiversity and Conservation 30, no. 3 (2021): 903–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02124-8.

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AbstractSpecies demanding specific habitat requirements suffer, particularly under environmental changes. The smallest owl of Africa, the Sokoke Scops Owl (Otus ireneae), occurs exclusively in East African coastal forests. To understand the movement behaviour and habitat demands of O. ireneae, we combined data from radio-tracking and remote sensing to calculate Species Distribution Models across the Arabuko Sokoke forest in southern Kenya. Based on these data, we estimated the local population size and projected the distribution of current suitable habitats. We found that the species occurs on

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Hemp, Claudia. "The Eastern Arc Mountains and coastal forests of East Africa—an archive to understand large-scale biogeographical patterns: Pseudotomias, a new genus of African Pseudophyllinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)." Zootaxa 4126, no. 4 (2016): 480–90. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4126.4.2.

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Hemp, Claudia (2016): The Eastern Arc Mountains and coastal forests of East Africa—an archive to understand large-scale biogeographical patterns: Pseudotomias, a new genus of African Pseudophyllinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Zootaxa 4126 (4): 480-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.4.2

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Ngumbau, Veronicah Mutele, Quentin Luke, Mwadime Nyange, et al. "An annotated checklist of the coastal forests of Kenya, East Africa." PhytoKeys 147 (May 12, 2020): 1–191. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.147.49602.

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The inadequacy of information impedes society's competence to find out the cause or degree of a problem or even to avoid further losses in an ecosystem. It becomes even harder to identify all the biological resources at risk because there is no exhaustive inventory of either fauna or flora of a particular region. Coastal forests of Kenya are located in the southeast part of Kenya and are distributed mainly in four counties: Kwale, Kilifi, Lamu, and Tana River County. They are a stretch of fragmented forests ca. 30−120 km away from the Indian Ocean, and they have existed for millions of years.

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Ngumbau, Veronicah Mutele, Quentin Luke, Mwadime Nyange, et al. "An annotated checklist of the coastal forests of Kenya, East Africa." PhytoKeys 147 (May 12, 2020): 1–191. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.147.49602.

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The inadequacy of information impedes society’s competence to find out the cause or degree of a problem or even to avoid further losses in an ecosystem. It becomes even harder to identify all the biological resources at risk because there is no exhaustive inventory of either fauna or flora of a particular region. Coastal forests of Kenya are located in the southeast part of Kenya and are distributed mainly in four counties: Kwale, Kilifi, Lamu, and Tana River County. They are a stretch of fragmented forests ca. 30−120 km away from the Indian Ocean, and they have existed for millions of years.

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Modest, Robert B., and Shombe N. Hassan. "Species Composition of Tropical Understory Birds in Threatened East African Coastal Forests Based on Capture Data." International Journal of Zoology 2016 (2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1390364.

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The East African coastal forests are subject of haphazard modification following anthropogenic pressures including tree cutting and clearing for agriculture. These activities, which are leading cause of habitat disturbance and species loss, are the major challenge in the management of sensitive wildlife species such as forest understory birds. This study investigated species composition of understory birds in the coastal forests of northeastern Tanzania to generate information for the management of the landscape and biodiversity in the area. Using mist nets, birds were trapped from core and ed

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Habel, Jan Christian, Ivon Constanza Cuadros Casanova, Camilo Zamora, et al. "East African coastal forest under pressure." Biodiversity and Conservation 26, no. 11 (2017): 2751–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1375-z.

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SUNSERI, THADDEUS. "THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE COPAL TRADE IN THE TANZANIAN COASTAL HINTERLAND, c. 1820–1905." Journal of African History 48, no. 2 (2007): 201–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853707002733.

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ABSTRACTBetween 1830 and 1880 copal was the major trade commodity from mainland Tanzania apart from ivory. Unlike ivory, copal was a product of a distinct environment, the lowland forests of the East African coastal hinterland. This region's copal was the best in the world for making high-value carriage varnish. It therefore found a ready market in the West, especially New England, whose traders brought cotton textiles to trade with East Africans for copal. The monopolization by hinterland polities of the copal–cloth trade nexus enabled them to consolidate politically as a sub-entrepôt of the

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Soi, B. Cheruiyot. "Status of Restricted-Range Bird Species of East African Coastal Forests in Five South Coast Forest of Kenya." Journal of Agriculture and Ecology Research International 16, no. 3 (2018): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jaeri/2018/44835.

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Juo, A. S. R., and L. P. Wilding. "Soils of the lowland forests of West and Central Africa." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section B. Biological Sciences 104 (1996): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269727000006102.

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The forest zone of West and Central Africa comprises the coastal and adjacent inland regions bounded the semi-deciduous forests in the west and the equatorial forests in central Africa and the Congo basin. Sedimentary plains, developed mostly on weathered sandy materials, lie along the coastal stretches and cover vast areas of the Congo basin. Behind the coast the plain rises gradually to hills and plateaus of much lower elevation than those of the highlands of East Africa. Two great rivers, the Niger and the Congo, which discharge huge volumes of fresh water to the Atlantic Ocean, are major c

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Timberlake, Jonathan, David Goyder, Frances Crawford, et al. "Coastal dry forests in northern Mozambique." Plant Ecology and Evolution 144, no. (2) (2011): 126–37. https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2011.539.

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<b>Background and aims</b> – The Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa, stretching along the Indian Ocean coastline from Somalia to Mozambique, are considered by Conservation International to be a global biodiversity hotspot – an area of high diversity and endemism under increasing threat. Although the largest remaining extent of these forests is reported to be found in Mozambique, very little is known on their extent, condition and composition here. In addition, the term 'coastal forest' has been used in different ways by different authors. This paper defines and characterises coastal dry forests

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Nemeth, Erwin, and Leon Bennun. "Distribution, habitat selection and behaviour of the East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi sokokensis in Kenya and Tanzania." Bird Conservation International 10, no. 2 (2000): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270900000113.

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This study investigated the distribution and habitat selection of the globally threatened East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi sokokensis in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, the Shimba Hills (both Kenya) and the lowland East Usambara Mountains (Tanzania). The species is more abundant than originally thought. In Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, akalats occur in two of the main vegetation types, and an estimated 7,500–9,000 territories represent one of the largest populations of this species in the world. Akalats occurred at similar densities to those in Arabuko-Sokoke (c. 0.5 pairs/ha) in parts of Shimba Hills an

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Habel, Jan Christian, Elisabeth Koc, Roland Gerstmeier, Axel Gruppe, Sebastian Seibold, and Werner Ulrich. "Insect diversity across an afro-tropical forest biodiversity hotspot." Journal of Insect Conservation 25, no. 2 (2021): 221–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10841-021-00293-z.

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Abstract Tropical forests host a remarkable proportion of global arthropod diversity. Yet, arthropod communities living in tropical forests are still poorly studied, particularly for dry forests of Eastern Africa. The aim of this study was to analyse community structures, species richness and relative abundances of insects across a heterogeneous forest consisting of various forest types. We collected insects in the lower canopies with light traps across the Arabuko Sokoke forest, part of the East African coastal forest biodiversity hotspot in southeast Kenya. Sampling was conducted across thre

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Azeria, Ermias T., Isabel Sanmartín, Stefan Ås, Allan Carlson, and Neil Burgess. "Biogeographic patterns of the East African coastal forest vertebrate fauna." Biodiversity and Conservation 16, no. 4 (2007): 883–912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-006-9022-0.

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Geldenhuys, C. J. "Richness, composition and relationships of the floras of selected forests in southern Africa." Bothalia 22, no. 2 (1992): 205–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/abc.v22i2.847.

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Species lists of 14 widely separated forests representing particular geographic regions in southern Africa were used to study the size and composition of the individual floras, the similarities between them, and possible determinants of the observed patterns. The forests contain 1 438 species which belong to 155 families and 661 genera. The growth form spectra show specific patterns amongst the individual forests such as an abundance of ferns in montane forests, and of woody plants and vines in coastal forests. The richness of a forest flora increases with increasing altitudinal range within t

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Ngumbau, Veronicah Mutele, Paul Mutuku Musili, and Guang-Wan Hu. "Premna mwadimei (Lamiaceae), a new species from Cha Simba, a remnant of coastal forests of Kenya, East Africa." Phytotaxa 510, no. 2 (2021): 155–62. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.510.2.4.

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Ngumbau, Veronicah Mutele, Musili, Paul Mutuku, Hu, Guang-Wan (2021): Premna mwadimei (Lamiaceae), a new species from Cha Simba, a remnant of coastal forests of Kenya, East Africa. Phytotaxa 510 (2): 155-162, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.510.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.510.2.4

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Buffington, M.L., and R.S. Copeland. "Muhaka icipe, an enigmatic new genus and species of Kleidotomini (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae) from an East African coastal forest." Journal of Natural History 49, no. 43 (2015): 2597–607. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1042411.

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Buffington, M.L., Copeland, R.S. (2015): Muhaka icipe, an enigmatic new genus and species of Kleidotomini (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae) from an East African coastal forest. Journal of Natural History 49 (43): 2597-2607, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1042411

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Andanje, Samuel A., Andrew E. Bowkett, Bernard Risky Agwanda, et al. "A new population of the Critically Endangered Aders’ duiker Cephalophus adersi confirmed from northern coastal Kenya." Oryx 45, no. 3 (2011): 444–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003060531000181x.

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AbstractAders’ duiker Cephalophus adersi is a small antelope endemic to the coastal forests of east Africa. Threatened by habitat loss and hunting, the species is categorized as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Until recently Aders’ duiker was known to persist only on Zanzibar, Tanzania, and in the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest National Reserve, Kenya. However, in 2004 a sighting of a single individual was reported from the Dodori forest in northern coastal Kenya, raising the possibility that the species survives elsewhere. Subsequently, an opportunistic camera-trap survey was conducted in

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Douglas Stone, R., and Quentin Luke. "Warneckea melindensis(Melastomataceae), A New Combination for an East African Coastal Forest Endemic." Journal of East African Natural History 98, no. 1 (2009): 141–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2982/028.098.0110.

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SÁFIÁN, SZABOLCS, JULIAN BAYLISS, and T. COLIN E. CONGDON. "Description of four Iolaus Hübner, 1819 species in the subgenus Philiolaus Stempffer & Bennett, 1958 from East Africa, assigned to the proposed I. maritimus species group (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Theclinae)." Zootaxa 5099, no. 1 (2022): 46–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5099.1.2.

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Four new Iolaus Hübner, 1819 species are described in the subgenus Philiolaus Stempffer & Bennett, 1958. They are assigned to the newly formed I. maritimus species group. Members of the group occur in the coastal forests of Kenya, submontane and montane forests in Tanzania and Mozambique, and are locally distributed in montane forests at the western shores of Lake Malawi, in southwestern Tanzania, and northern Zambia/Malawi

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Habel, Jan Christian, and Werner Ulrich. "Ecosystem functions in natural and anthropogenic ecosystems across the East African coastal forest landscape." Biotropica 52, no. 4 (2020): 598–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12780.

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Solórzano-Kraemer, Mónica M., Robin Kunz, Jörg U. Hammel, Enrique Peñalver, Xavier Delclòs, and Michael S. Engel. "Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Holocene copal and Defaunation resin from Eastern Africa indicate Recent biodiversity change." Holocene 32, no. 5 (2022): 414–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09596836221074035.

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Although specimens in fossil to Recent resins are remarkable for their fidelity of preservation, amber is well known and studied, unlike the younger resins as Pleistocene copal (2.58–0.0117 Ma) and Holocene copal (0.0117 Ma–1760 AD), or Defaunation resin, which is resin produced after 1760 AD. However, the scientific relevance of these younger resins preserving arthropods that lived in pre-Anthropocene time is often underestimated. Here, we present specimens of workers of stingless bees included in copal and Defaunation resin, from the coastal vichaka forests in Tanzania, and from northwest Ma

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Ogbe, F. O., G. Thottappilly, A. G. O. Dixon, G. I. Atiri, and H. D. Mignouna. "Variants of East African cassava mosaic virus and Its Distribution in Double Infections with African cassava mosaic virus in Nigeria." Plant Disease 87, no. 3 (2003): 229–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis.2003.87.3.229.

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In a survey for cassava mosaic begomoviruses conducted in 1997 and 1998 in Nigeria, East African cassava mosaic virus (EACMV) was detected by the polymerase chain reaction together with African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV) in 27 out of 290 cassava leaf samples of infected plants from 254 farmers' fields in five agroecological zones. One plant was infected with EACMV only. Five variant isolates of EACMV were observed based on their reactions to primers that could detect Cameroonian and East African strains of EACMV. Isolates of variants 1 and 3 occurred mostly in the derived or coastal and south

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Dagallier, Léo-Paul M. J., Frank M. Mbago, W. R. Quentin Luke, and Thomas L. P. Couvreur. "Three new species of Uvariodendron (Annonaceae) from coastal East Africa in Kenya and Tanzania." PhytoKeys 174 (March 12, 2021): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.174.61630.

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East Africa is a hotspot of biodiversity with many endemic plant species. We describe three new species of the genus Uvariodendron (Annonaceae) from the coastal forests of Kenya and Tanzania. Uvariodendron mbagoi Dagallier &amp; Couvreur, sp. nov. is endemic to Tanzania and unique within the genus by its strong bergamot scent and its tomentose fruits having regular tufts of higher hair density. Uvariodendron dzomboense Dagallier, W.R.Q. Luke &amp; Couvreur, sp. nov. is endemic to Dzombo Hill in Kenya and is rendered distinct by its small leaves and very densely pubescent carpels. Uvari

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Dagallier, Léo-Paul M.J., Frank M. Mbago, W.R. Quentin Luke, and Thomas L.P. Couvreur. "Three new species of Uvariodendron (Annonaceae) from coastal East Africa in Kenya and Tanzania." PhytoKeys 174 (March 12, 2021): 107–26. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.174.61630.

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East Africa is a hotspot of biodiversity with many endemic plant species. We describe three new species of the genus Uvariodendron (Annonaceae) from the coastal forests of Kenya and Tanzania. Uvariodendron mbagoi Dagallier & Couvreur, sp. nov. is endemic to Tanzania and unique within the genus by its strong bergamot scent and its tomentose fruits having regular tufts of higher hair density. Uvariodendron dzomboense Dagallier, W.R.Q. Luke & Couvreur, sp. nov. is endemic to Dzombo Hill in Kenya and is rendered distinct by its small leaves and very densely pubescent carpels. Uvariodendron

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Rasal, Vishal, Meenu Dhakad, and Dharmendra Khandal. "Ecological invasion of the giant African snail Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822) in a semi-arid forest of western India." Biodiversity Observations 12 (June 14, 2022): 60–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/bo.876.

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The giant African snail Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822) (also known as Achatina fulica) is indigenous to the coastal region of con-tinental East Africa. It is one of the most invasive ecological pests in the world and threatens native flora, agriculture, human and animal health outside its natural range. While dry and semi-arid climatic re-gions are supposed to be immune to its invasion, our data show that this is not always the case. Ranthambhore National Park is dry, de-ciduous forest located in semi-arid part of western India. We have observed the progressive invasion of L. fulica in th

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Lemenkova, Polina. "Random Forest Classifier Algorithm of Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Geographic Information System for Satellite Image Processing: Case Study of Bight of Sofala, Mozambique." Coasts 4, no. 1 (2024): 127–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/coasts4010008.

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Mapping coastal regions is important for environmental assessment and for monitoring spatio-temporal changes. Although traditional cartographic methods using a geographic information system (GIS) are applicable in image classification, machine learning (ML) methods present more advantageous solutions for pattern-finding tasks such as the automated detection of landscape patches in heterogeneous landscapes. This study aimed to discriminate landscape patterns along the eastern coasts of Mozambique using the ML modules of a Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) GIS. The random fore

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Lemenkova, Polina. "Random Forest Classifier Algorithm of Geographic Resources Analysis Support System Geographic Information System for Satellite Image Processing: Case Study of Bight of Sofala, Mozambique." Coasts 4, no. 1 (2024): 127–49. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10711497.

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Mapping coastal regions is important for environmental assessment and for monitoring spatio-temporal changes. Although traditional cartographic methods using a geographic information system (GIS) are applicable in image classification, machine learning (ML) methods present more advantageous solutions for pattern-finding tasks such as the automated detection of landscape patches in heterogeneous landscapes. This study aimed to discriminate landscape patterns along the eastern coasts of Mozambique using the ML modules of a Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) GIS. The random fore

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d’Oliveira Coelho, João, Robert L. Anemone, and Susana Carvalho. "Unsupervised learning of satellite images enhances discovery of late Miocene fossil sites in the Urema Rift, Gorongosa, Mozambique." PeerJ 9 (June 8, 2021): e11573. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11573.

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Background Paleoanthropological research focus still devotes most resources to areas generally known to be fossil rich instead of a strategy that first maps and identifies possible fossil sites in a given region. This leads to the paradoxical task of planning paleontological campaigns without knowing the true extent and likely potential of each fossil site and, hence, how to optimize the investment of time and resources. Yet to answer key questions in hominin evolution, paleoanthropologists must engage in fieldwork that targets substantial temporal and geographical gaps in the fossil record. H

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Friis, Ib, and Odile Weber. "Xylopia nilotica (Annonaceae) in Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda, with a review of the genus in North Eastern Tropical Africa." Webbia 79, no. 2 (2024): 239–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/jopt-16134.

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Based on written records and specimens of the new species, Xylopia nilotica D. M. Johnson & N. A. Murray (2018), described from Uganda and west of the Nile in Sudan and South Sudan, we have mapped the species. We find that it also occurs east of the Nile in South Sudan and in western Ethiopia. Its habitats range from open rain forest to open woodland. Modelling the potential distribution of X. nilotica suggests that it occurs in the periphery of the upper Nile basin, but it is probably undercollected. The potential distributions of X. longipetala (a Guineo-Congolian species) and X. holtzii

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DAVIS, JEFFREY A. "Density and population estimates of Amani Sunbird Anthreptes pallidigaster in Kenya's Arabuko-Sokoke Forest." Bird Conservation International 15, no. 1 (2005): 53–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270905000043.

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The Arabuko-Sokoke Forest (ASF) is the largest area of coastal forest remaining in East Africa. However, encroachment and habitat degradation threaten the existence of many plant and animal species, including the East African endemic Amani Sunbird Anthreptes pallidigaster. The aim of this study was to arrive at an estimate of population size for Amani Sunbirds within the ASF. Forty transects were surveyed over 3 months in 1999. The total length of all transects was 63.572 km. In total, 103 Amani Sunbirds were detected at an estimated density of 36.6 birds/km2. Thus with a total area of 77 km2,

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Pawlowicz, Matthew, John Stoetzel, and Stephen Macko. "Environmental Archaeology at Mikindani, Tanzania: Towards a Historical Ecology of the Southern Swahili Coast." Journal of African Archaeology 12, no. 2 (2014): 119–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3213/2191-5784-10260.

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The historic port town of Mikindani is situated along the southern portion of the Swahili coast. Archaeological investigations in this region of coastal East Africa yield evidence of occupation since the last centuries BCE and intensive settlement since the middle of the first millennium CE. This long settlement history suggests that people in the region have had an expansive, wide-ranging impact on local ecological conditions in the region. This paper takes a historical ecology approach in evaluating the nature and degree of anthropogenic influences on the environment in and around Mikindani.

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Buffington, M. L., and R. S. Copeland. "Muhaka icipe, an enigmatic new genus and species of Kleidotomini (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae) from an East African coastal forest." Journal of Natural History 49, no. 43-44 (2015): 2597–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1042411.

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HEMP, CLAUDIA. "The Eastern Arc Mountains and coastal forests of East Africa—an archive to understand large-scale biogeographical patterns: Pseudotomias, a new genus of African Pseudophyllinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)." Zootaxa 4126, no. 4 (2016): 480. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4126.4.2.

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Berhane, Fisseha, and Benjamin Zaitchik. "Modulation of Daily Precipitation over East Africa by the Madden–Julian Oscillation*." Journal of Climate 27, no. 15 (2014): 6016–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-13-00693.1.

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Abstract Spatiotemporal variability in East African precipitation affects the livelihood of tens of millions of people. From the perspective of floods, flash droughts, and agriculture, variability on intraseasonal time scales is a critical component of total variability. The principal objective of this study is to explore subseasonal impacts of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) on tropospheric circulations affecting East Africa (EA) during the long (March–May) and short (October–December) rains and associated variability in precipitation. Analyses are performed for 1979–2012 for dynamics and

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Ntukey, Lucas Theodori, Linus Kasian Munishi, and Anna Christina Treydte. "Land Use Land/Cover Change Reduces Woody Plant Diversity and Carbon Stocks in a Lowland Coastal Forest Ecosystem, Tanzania." Sustainability 14, no. 14 (2022): 8551. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14148551.

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The East-African lowland coastal forest (LCF) is one of Africa’s centres of species endemism, representing an important biodiversity hotspot. However, deforestation and forest degradation due to the high demand for fuelwood has reduced forest cover and diversity, with unknown consequences for associated terrestrial carbon stocks in this LCF system. Our study assessed spatio-temporal land use and land cover changes (LULC) in 1998, 2008, 2018 in the LCF ecosystem, Tanzania. In addition, we conducted a forest inventory survey and calculated associated carbon storage for this LCF ecosystem. Using

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Droissart, Vincent, Phillip J. Cribb, Murielle Simo-Droissart, and Tariq Stévart. "Taxonomy of Atlantic Central African orchids 2. A second species of the rare genus Distylodon (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) collected in Cameroon." PhytoKeys 36 (April 9, 2014): 27–34. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.36.7225.

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While conducting field inventories in South Cameroon, we collected two specimens of a new species that we considered to belong to the genus <i>Angraecopsis</i>. Afterwards, a careful examination of specimens housed at main herbaria, along with the nomenclatural types, allows us to place it in <i>Distylodon</i>, a monotypic genus previously known from East Africa. <i>Distylodon sonkeanum</i> Droissart, Stévart & P.J.Cribb, sp. nov. was collected in the lowland coastal forest of Atlantic Central Africa. It is known from a single locality in the surroundings of the Campo-Ma’an National Park.

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Otieno, Nickson Erick, David Ngala, and Alex Mwalimu. "Spatial response of the globally-endangered Sokoke Pipit (Anthus sokokensis van Someren, 1921) to habitat modification in an Eastern Arc Coastal Forest." F1000Research 3 (February 18, 2014): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-59.v1.

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The Arabuko-Sokoke forest is the largest relic of a formerly larger contiguous East African coastal forest. It forms part of the Eastern Arc Forest system which is a global biodiversity hotspot with considerable species endemism. As one of the most important bird habitats in Africa, it hosts nine globally-threatened and four regionally threatened species. Despite such conservation significance, the forest is undergoing rapid modification and habitat loss mainly from anthropogenic pressures, with negative impacts on sensitive species such as the Sokoke Pipit (Anthus sokokensis). This study exam

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BELLSTEDT, DIRK U., BÉLA NAGY, P. DE WET VAN DER MERWE, FENTON P. D. COTTERILL, QUENTIN LUKE, and BRIAN R. WATTERS. "The description of a critically endangered new species of seasonal killifish, Nothobranchius sylvaticus (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a relict species from an East African forest refugium in south-eastern Kenya." Zootaxa 5601, no. 1 (2025): 86–108. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.4.

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A new species, Nothobranchius sylvaticus sp. nov. is described from ephemeral swamps in open areas of the Gongoni Forest in the seasonal Mkurumudzi system in south-eastern coastal Kenya. The species occupies a unique ecological niche as it inhabits small seasonal wetland habitats situated in a relict forest ecosystem. Nothobranchius sylvaticus sp. nov. is distinguished from all other members of the genus by: iridescent light blue scales on its trunk extending to cover the entire caudal peduncle; dorsal portion of head grey with distinct red lobes along the supraorbital canal; posterior scale m

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Clulow, A. D., C. S. Everson, J. S. Price, G. P. W. Jewitt, and B. C. Scott-Shaw. "Water-use dynamics of a peat swamp forest and a dune forest in Maputaland, South Africa." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17, no. 5 (2013): 2053–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-2053-2013.

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Abstract. Peat swamp forests are the second rarest forest type found in South Africa while dune forests have been under severe threat through mining and agriculture. Both forest types exist in the conservation area, and World Heritage site, known as the iSimangaliso Wetland Park on the East coast of South Africa. The area is prone to severe droughts (Taylor et al., 2006) and recent attempts to understand the local water balance revealed that there was insufficient information on the water use of the indigenous forests of the area. The peat swamp forest and dune forest sites studied in this res

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Clulow, A. D., C. S. Everson, J. S. Price, G. P. W. Jewitt, and B. C. Scott-Shaw. "Water-use dynamics of a peat swamp forest and a dune forest in Maputaland, South Africa." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 10, no. 2 (2013): 1725–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hessd-10-1725-2013.

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Abstract. Peat swamp forests are the second rarest forest type found in South Africa while dune forests have been under severe threat through mining and agriculture. Both forest types exist in the conservation area, and World Heritage site, known as the iSimangaliso Wetland Park on the East coast of South Africa. The area is prone to severe droughts (Taylor et al., 2006) and recent attempts to understand the local water-balance revealed that there was insufficient information on the water-use of the indigenous forests of the area. The Peat Swamp Forest and Dune Forest sites studied in this res

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Blaschke, Paul M., Noel A. Trustrum, and Douglas L. Hicks. "Impacts of mass movement erosion on land productivity: a review." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 24, no. 1 (2000): 21–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030913330002400102.

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Wherever people gain their livelihood in mountains and steeplands, the productive capacity of the soils they use is likely to be affected by mass movement erosion. The impacts of mass movement erosion on land productivity are significant but under-rated in the scientific literature. Impacts on cropping are here reported from 15 countries in south and southeast Asia, east Africa, the Caribbean and Melanesia, but accounts are generalized or anecdotal, and do not quantify crop loss or damage attributable to mass movement separately from that due to surface or fluvial erosion. Impacts on pastoral

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Otieno, Nickson Erick, David Ngala, and Alex Mwalimu. "Spatial response of the globally-endangered Sokoke Pipit (Anthus sokokensis van Someren, 1921) to habitat degradation in an Eastern Arc Coastal forest." F1000Research 3 (May 22, 2014): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.3-59.v2.

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The Arabuko-Sokoke forest is the largest relic of a formerly larger contiguous East African coastal forest. It forms part of the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal forest ecoregion which is a global biodiversity hotspot with considerable species endemism. Despite such conservation significance, the forest is undergoing rapid modification and habitat loss mainly from anthropogenic pressures, with negative impacts on sensitive species such as the Sokoke Pipit (Anthus sokokensis), one of the globally-endangered birds. The study examined impacts of habitat degradation on the species’ population and

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Costa, Wilson J.E.M. "Redescription of Nothobranchius lucius and description of a new species from Mafia Island, eastern Tanzania (Cyprinodontiformes, Aplocheilidae)." Zoosystematics and Evolution 93, no. (1) (2017): 35–44. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.11041.

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Examination of specimens listed in the original description of Nothobranchius lucius revealed that they belong to two species. Nothobranchius lucius is redescribed based on the type series and other specimens collected in the type locality area, the Kibasira Swamp area, Rufiji River basin, Tanzania, at elevations between 250 and 300 m. Nothobranchius insularis sp. n. is described on the basis of specimens collected in the north part of Mafia Island, Tanzania, at about 10–15 m elevation. Nothobranchius lucius and N. insularis are considered closely related species based on the shared presence o

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POUWELS, RANDALL L. "EAST AFRICAN COASTAL HISTORY." Journal of African History 40, no. 2 (1999): 285–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853798007403.

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Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History. By DEREK NURSE and THOMAS J. HINNEBUSCH. Edited by THOMAS J. HINNEBUSCH, with a special addendum by GERARD PHILIPPSON. (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 121). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1993. Pp. xxxii+780. $80 (ISBN 0-520-09775-0).Shanga. The Archaeology of a Muslim Trading Community on the Coast of East Africa. By MARK HORTON. (Memoirs of the British Institute of East Africa, 14). London: The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1996. Pp. xvi+458. £75 (ISBN 1-872-56609-x).Nurse's and Hinnebusch's Swa

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Byarugaba, Dominic. "Conservation Biodiversity in East African Forests." African Journal of Ecology 42, no. 3 (2004): 244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2004.00529.x.

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Malonza, Patrick K., and Aaron M. Bauer. "A new species of arboreal forest-dwelling gecko (Hemidactylus: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from coastal Kenya, East Africa." Zootaxa 3786, no. 2 (2014): 192–200. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3786.2.7.

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Malonza, Patrick K., Bauer, Aaron M. (2014): A new species of arboreal forest-dwelling gecko (Hemidactylus: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from coastal Kenya, East Africa. Zootaxa 3786 (2): 192-200, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.2.7

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Groves, Colin. "Jonathan Kingdon and the East African Forests." Journal of East African Natural History 104, no. 1-2 (2015): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2982/028.104.0105.

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Fungomeli, Maria, Anthony Githitho, Fabrizio Frascaroli, Saidi Chidzinga, Marcus Cianciaruso, and Alessandro Chiarucci. "A new Vegetation-Plot Database for the Coastal Forests of Kenya." Vegetation Classification and Survey 1 (June 16, 2020): 103–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vcs/2020/47180.

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Biodiversity data based on standardised sampling designs are key to ecosystem conservation. Data of this sort have been lacking for the Kenyan coastal forests despite being biodiversity hotspots. Here, we introduce the Kenyan Coastal Forests Vegetation-Plot Database (GIVD ID: AF-KE-001), consisting of data from 158 plots, subdivided into 3,160 subplots, across 25 forests. All plots include data on tree identity, diameter and height. Abundance of shrubs is presented for 316 subplots. We recorded 600 taxa belonging to 80 families, 549 of which identified to species and 51 to genus level. Species

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Fungomeli, Maria, Anthony Githitho, Fabrizio Frascaroli, Saidi Chidzinga, Marcus Cianciaruso, and Alessandro Chiarucci. "A new Vegetation-Plot Database for the Coastal Forests of Kenya." Vegetation Classification and Survey 1, no. () (2020): 103–9. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/47180.

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Biodiversity data based on standardised sampling designs are key to ecosystem conservation. Data of this sort have been lacking for the Kenyan coastal forests despite being biodiversity hotspots. Here, we introduce the Kenyan Coastal Forests Vegetation-Plot Database (GIVD ID: AF-KE-001), consisting of data from 158 plots, subdivided into 3,160 subplots, across 25 forests. All plots include data on tree identity, diameter and height. Abundance of shrubs is presented for 316 subplots. We recorded 600 taxa belonging to 80 families, 549 of which identified to species and 51 to genus level. Species

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HOSKIN, CONRAD J., and PATRICK J. COUPER. "Description of two new Carlia species (Reptilia: Scincidae) from north-east Australia, elevation of Carlia pectoralis inconnexa Ingram & Covacevich 1989 to full species status, and redescription of Carlia pectoralis (de Vis 1884)." Zootaxa 3546, no. 1 (2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3546.1.1.

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Scincid lizards belonging to the genus Carlia are found in eastern and northern Australia and in New Guinea andassociated islands. These skinks are a particularly diverse component of the reptile fauna of north-east Australia. Carliapectoralis (de Vis 1884) was formerly regarded as occurring over much of eastern Queensland, in north-east Australia.Here we show that it consists of four species: Carlia pectoralis, Carlia decora sp. nov., Carlia rubigo sp. nov. and Carliainconnexa Ingram & Covacevich 1989 (which was formerly described as a subspecies of C. pectoralis). Herein, wedescribe two

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