Duncan M. Kimuyu, PhD

Dr. Kimuyu is currently the head of department of Natural Resources at Karatina University, Kenya. He has a background in Wildlife Management and holds a PhD in Ecology. He is interested in broad aspects of wildlife conservation in anthropogenic ecosystems. His current research is on understanding responses of wildlife biodiversity to anthropogenic drivers of change such as prescribed fires, extirpation of large mammals, and intensification in livestock grazing. His research has opened up new ways of thinking about livestock, wildlife, and fire management in savannas.

Duncan M. Kimuyu, PhD

Head, Department of Natural Resources School of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies

Most recent Publications

  1. Charles, G., Riginos, C., Veblen, K., Kimuyu, D.M, & Young, T. (2021). Termite mound cover and abundance respond to herbivore-mediated biotic changes in an African savanna. Ecology and Evolution, online early. https://doi.org/22541/au.161093472.23789437/v1
  2. Wells, H.B.M., Kimuyu, M, Odadi, W.O., Young, T.P., Dougill, A.J. and Stringer. L.C. (2021). Cattle and large wild herbivores increase local diversity of smaller vertebrates, but less than additively. Journal of Applied Ecology, online early.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13843
  3. Young, T.P., Kimuyu, D.M. Odadi, W.O., Wells H.B.M. & 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): e0248855 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248855
  4. Werner C.M., Kimuyu, D.M, Veblen K.E, Sensenig R.L, LaMalfa E., and Young T.P. (2021) Synergistic effects of long-term herbivory and previous fire on fine-scale heterogeneity of prescribed grasland burns. Ecology 102(4): e03270 https://doi.org/1002/ecy.3270
  5. Isbell L.A, Bidner L.R, Loftus J.C, Kimuyu D.M, Young T.P (2021) Absentee owners and overlapping home ranges in a territorial species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02945-7
  6. Kimuyu, D.M., Kenfack, D., Musili, P. M., & Ang’ila, R.O. (2021). Fine-scale habitat heterogeneity influences browsing damage by elephant and giraffe. Biotropica, 53(1), 86–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12848
  7. Ferguson, A.W., Muloi, D., Ngatia, D.K., Kiongo, W., Kimuyu, D.M., Webala, P.W.,.. Martins, D.J. (2020). Volunteer based approach to dog vaccination campaigns to eliminate human rabies: Lessons from Laikipia County, Kenya. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(7), e0008260. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008260
  8. Sitters, J., Kimuyu, D.M., Young, T.P., Claeys, P., & Olde Venterink, H. (2020). Negative effects of cattle on soil carbon and nutrient pools reversed by megaherbivores. Nature Sustainability, 3(5), 360-366. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0490-0