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Primary Literature
Guides and other Books


Literature on Vegetation   Literature on Invertebrates     Literature on Birds    Literature on Mammals     Literature on Primates
Plant Guides    Invertebrate Guides    Reptile and Amphibian Guides     Bird Guides    Mammal Guides    Other References 
 
Primary Literature

General Literature
 
Angwin, D.  1980.  Natural history notes from Kakamega Forest, western Kenya: part 1, mammals, birds and Lepidoptera.  EANHS Bulletin 1980: 27-34.

Rowell, T.  1982.  Kakamega Forest.  Swara 5: 8-9.

 
 Literature on Vegetation

Bochardt, D.S., H.G. Welz, and H.H. Geiger.  1998.  Spatial and temporal variation of genetic marker patterns in Setosphaeria turcica populations from Kenya.  Journal of Phytopathology (Berlin) 146: 451-457.

Kigomo, B.N.  1987.  Some observations on regeneration trials in the Kakamega and south Nandi natural forests, Kenya.  East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal 52: 184-195.

Prigogine, A.  1978.  Note sur les petits indicateurs de la foret de Kakamega.  Gerfaut: 87-89.

Tsingalia, M.H.  1989.  Variation in seedling predation and herbivory in Prunus africana in the Kakamega Forest Kenya.  African Journal of Ecology 27: 207-218.

Tsingalia, M.H.  1990.  Habitat disturbance severity and patterns of abundance in Kakamega Forest Western Kenya.  African Journal of Ecology 28: 213-226.

 
Literature on Invertebrates

Clausnitzer, V.  1996.  Territoriality in Notiothemis robertsi Fraser (Anisoptera: Libellulidae).  Odonatologica 25: 335-345.

Clausnitzer, V.  1998.  Territorial behaviour of a rainforest dragonfly Notiothemis robertsi (Odonata: Libellulidae): proposed functions of specific behavioural patterns.  Journal of Zoology (London) 245: 121-127.

Clifton, M.P.  1980.  Natural history notes from Kakamega Forest, western Kenya: part 2, Lepidoptera.  EANHS Bulletin 1980: 54-55.

Copeland R.S., W. Okeka and P.S. Corbet.  1996.  Treeholes as larval habitat of the dragonfly Hadrothemis camarensis.  Aquatic Insects 18: 129-147.

Copeland R.S., W. Okeka and P.S. Corbet.  1998.  Treeholes as larval habitat of the dragonfly Hadrothemis camarensis (Odonata: Libellulidae) in Kakamega Forest, Kenya.  Aquatic Insects 20: 196.

Deshmukh, I.K.  1982.  Diversity of understory arthropods in an indigenous forest and an exotic eucalyptus plantation in western Kenya.  Kenya Journal of Science and Technology Series B Biological Sciences 3: 3-7.

Emmel T.C. and A.D. Warren.  1993.  The butterfly faunas of the Kakamega Rain Forest and the Masai Mara Savanna in Kenya, East Africa.   Tropical Lepidoptera 4: 66-76.

Hippa, H.  1984.  The Afrotropical genus Hovaxylota keiser (Diptera: Syrphidae).  Entomologica Scandinavica 15: 511-519.

Kioko, E.N. and S.K. Raina.  1997.  African wild silkmoths: silk production as an economic incentive for their conservation in Kakamega Forest of Kenya. In Robertson, H.G., ed.  Insects in African Economy and Environment.  Entomological Society of Southern Africa: South Africa.

Ovtsharenko, V.  1994.  A review of the ground spider genus Synaphosus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae).  American Museum Novitates 3095.

Ozerov, A.L.  1991.  Review of the subgenus Platytoxopoda (Diptera, Sepsidae: Toxopodinae).  Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody Otdel Biologicheskii 96: 48-53.

Polhemus J.T. and R.S. Copeland.  1996.  A new genus of microveliinae from treeholes in Kenya (Heteroptera: Veliidae).  Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie 139: 73-77.

Shililu, J.I., W.A. Maier, H.M. Seitz, S.S. Kubasu, and S. Orago.   1998.  Use of polymerase chain reaction to identify Anopheles gambiae Giles (Dipt., Culicidae) sibling species composition.  Journal of Applied Entomology 122: 461-464.

Sourakov, A. and T.C. Emmel.  1995.  Bait trapping for butterflies in Kenya.  Tropical Lepidoptera 6: 1-2.

Spangler, P.J.  1996.  A new genus and species of aquatic beetle, Caenelmis octomeria, from Kenya, Africa (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae).  Insecta Mundi 10: 19-23.

Tattersfield, P.  1995.  A new species of truncatellina (Gastropoda: Vertiginidae) from Mount Kenya and new distributional records of truncatellina ninagongonis (Pilsbry) from East Africa.  Journal of Conchology 35: 243-247.

Tattersfield, P.  1996.  Local patterns of land snail diversity in a Kenyan rain forest.  Malacologia 38: 161-180.

Travura, N.G., P. Cassagnau and L. Deharveng.  1980.  Sur l'interet biogeographique et cytogenetique d'un nouveau genre de Collemboles neanuridae.  Travaux du Laboratoire D'ecobiologie Des Arthropodes Edaphiques Toulouse 2: 1-12.

Uchikawa, K.  1982.  Mites of the genera Calcarmyobia and Pteracarus (Trombidiformes, Myobiidae) parasitic on Miniopterus (Chiroptera).  Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 55: 32-45.

Van Bruggen, A.C. and A.J. De Winter.  1995.  Notes on Micractaeon, a monotypic genus of African land snails (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Ferussaciidae?).  Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 69:79-92.

Verdcourt, B.  1990.  A new genus and species of land snail, Micractaeon kakamegaensis, from Kakamega Forest, Kenya (Pulmonata: ?Ferussaciidae).  Archiv Fuer Molluskenkunde 121: 81-86.

 
Literature on Birds

Candy, M.  1984.  Great blue turacos.  Swara 7: 25-27.

EANHS Ornithological Sub Committee.  1978.  East African bird report.  Scopus 2: 105-122.

Fletcher, P.  1983.  Breast markings in the Dark-Backed Weaver at Kakamega Forest.  EANHS Bulletin 63-64.

Forbes-Watson, A.D.  1973.  The avi-fauna of the African lowland forest at its eastern and western extremities Kakamega, Kenya and Mt Nimba Liberia.  Pages 644-645 in K.H. Voous, ed.  Proceedings of the XVth International Ornithological Congress (the Hague, the Netherlands, Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1970).  Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Holyoak, D.T.  1990.  The nest and eggs of Phylloscopus budongoensis.  Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 110: 159-160.

Lambert, F.R.  1984.  Birds at ant swarms in Kenya and Southern Sudan.  Scopus 8: 31-32.

Mann, C.  1985.  An avifaunal study in Kakamega Forest, Kenya, with particular reference to species-diversity, weight and molt.  Ostrich 56: 236-262.

Prigogine, A.  1978.  Note on the small honeyguides from the Kakamega Forest.  Gerfaut 68: 87-90.

Savalli, U.  1995.  Morphology, territoriality and mating system of the Pintailed Whydah Vidua macroura.  Ostrich 66: 129-134.

Shililu, J.I., W.A. Maier, H.M. Seitz, S.S. Kubasu, S. Orago, A. Diamond and V.C. Fayad.  1979.  Preliminary comparisons between the avifaunas of the North Nandi and Kakamega Forests.  Scopus 3: 93-100.

Wolf, D.E.  1984.  Ayres' hawk eagle Hieraaetus dubius feeding on a fruit bat.  Scopus 8: 44.

Zimmerman, D.A.  1972.  The avi fauna of the Kakamega Forest western Kenya including a bird population study.  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 149: 255-340.

 
Literature on Mammals

Gathua, M.J.  1992.  A fossilized Elephant tooth in Kakamega Forest.  EANHS Bulletin 22: 60.

 
Literature on Primates

Brown, C.H., and P.M. Waser.  1984.  Hearing and communication in Blue Monkeys Cercopithecus mitis.  Animal Behaviour 32: 66-75.

Brown, C.H.  1994.   Ecological constraints for the evolution of primate vocalizations.  In Roeder, J.J. et al. (ed.).  Current Primatology. vol. 2: Social Development, Learning and Behaviour.  Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg.

Cords, M.C.  1984.  Mixed species groups of Blue and Redtail Monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya.  International Journal of Primatology 5: 329.

Cords, M.C.  1987.  Demography of Blue Monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya.   International Journal of Primatology 8: 546.

Cords, M.C.  1990.  Mixed-species association of East African Guenons general patterns of specific examples.  American Journal of Primatology 21: 101-114.

Cords, M.C.  1995.  Predator vigilance costs of allogrooming in wild Blue Monkeys.  Behaviour 132: 559-569.

Cords, M.C. and T.E. Rowell.  1986.  Group fission in Blue Monkey Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni of the Kakamega Forest Kenya.  Folia Primatologica 46: 70-82.

Cords, M.C. and T.E. Rowell.  1987.  Birth intervals of Cercopithecus monkeys of the Kakamega Forest Kenya.  Primates 28: 277-281.

Cords, M.C., B.J. Mitchell, H.M. Tsingalia, and T.E. Rowell.  1986.  Promiscuous mating among Blue Monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya.  Ethology 72: 214-226.

Mitani J., J. Groslouis and A. Richards.  1996.  Sexual dimorphism, the operational sex-ratio, and the intensity of male competition in polygynous primates.  American Naturalist 147: 966-980.

Muriuki, J.W., and H.M. Tsingalia.  1990.  A new population of De Brazza's Monkey in Kenya.  Oryx 24: 157-162.

Rowell, T.E. and B.J. Mitchell.  1991.  Comparison of seed dispersal by Guenons in Kenya and Capuchins in Panama.  Journal of Tropical Ecology 7: 269-274.

Rowell, T.E., E. Wilson, and M.C. Cords.  1991.  Reciprocity and partner preference in grooming of female Blue Monkeys.  International Journal of Primatology 12: 319-336.

Swart, J., M. Lawes and M. Perrin.  1993.  A mathematical-model to investigate the demographic viability of low-density Samango Monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) populations in Natal, South-Africa.  Ecological Modelling 70: 289-303.

Swart, J. and M. Lawes.  1996.  The effect of habitat patch connectivity on Samango Monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) Metapopulation Persistence.   Ecological Modelling 93: 57-74.

Tsingala, H.M. and T.E. Rowell.  1984.  The behaviour of adult male Blue Monkeys.  Zeitschrift Fuer Tierpsychologie 64: 253-268.

Tsingalia, H.M., M.C. Cords, B.J. Mitchell and T.E. Rowell.  1984.  Mating-behavior of Blue Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya.   International Journal of Primatology 5: 388.

Von Hippel, F.A.  1996.  Interactions between overlapping multimale groups of Black and White Colobus Monkeys (Colobus guereza) in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya.  American Journal of Primatology 38:193-209.

Von Hippel, F.A.  1998.  Use of sleeping trees by Black and White Colobus Monkeys (Colobus guereza) in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya.  American Journal of Primatology 45: 281-290.

Wahome, J.M., M.C. Cords, and T.E. Rowell.  1988.  Blue Monkeys eat mice.   Folia Primatologica 51: 158-160.

Wahome, J. M., T.E. Rowell, H.M. Tsingalia.  1993.  The natural-history of Debrazza's Monkey in Kenya.  International Journal of Primatology 14: 445-466.

Waser, P.M. and C.H. Brown.  1984.  Is there a 'sound window' for primate communication?.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 15: 73-76.


Guides and other Books
 
Plant Guides

Agnew, A.D.Q.  1994.  Upland Kenya wild flowers: a flora of the ferns and herbaceous flowering plants of upland Kenya.  East Africa Natural History Society, Nairobi, Kenya.

Beentje, H.  1994.  Kenya trees, shrubs, and lianas.  National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

Blundell, M.  1982.  The wild flowers of Kenya.  HarperCollins, London.

Bogdan, A. V.  1976.  A revised list of Kenya grasses: with keys for identification.  Government Printer, Nairobi.

Gillett, J. B.  1970.  A numbered check-list of trees, shrubs and noteworthy lianes indigenous to Kenya.  Government Printer, Nairobi.

Ibrahim, K.  1988.  An illustrated manual of Kenya grasses.   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.

Ibrahim, K.  1989.  An illustrated manual of Kenya legumes (herbs and climbers).  FAO/UNDP Forage Plant Development and Extension, National Agriculture Research Centre, Kitale, Kenya.

Karmali, J.  1988.  The beautiful plants of Kenya.  Westland Sundries, Nairobi.

Stewart, J.  1996.  Orchids of Kenya.  Timber Press, Portland, Or.

 
Invertebrate Guides

Larsen, T.B.  1991.  The butterflies of Kenya and their natural history.  Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation Programme.  1992.  Kakamega Forest: invertebrate survey.  KIFCON, Karura Forest Station: Centre for Biodiversity, National Museums of Kenya: National Museums of Kenya [distributor]; Natural Resources Institute [distributor], Nairobi: Chatham Maritime, Kent, UK.

Stoneham, H.F.  1951.  The butterflies of Western Kenya.   East African Standard, Nairobi.

 
Reptile and Amphibian Guides

Loveridge, A.  1957.  Check list of the reptiles and amphibians of East Africa (Uganda; Kenya; Tanganyika; Zanzibar).  The Museum, Cambridge.

 
Bird Guides

Guggisberg, C.A.W.  1988.  East African birds, vols. 1-2.  Sapra Safari Guide No. 6.  Mt. Kenya Sundries Ltd., Nairobi.

Lewis, A.  1989.  A bird atlas of Kenya.  Balkema, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Brookfield, VT, USA.

Richards, D.  1998.  A photographic guide to birds of East Africa.  Chelsea Green Pub. Co.

Richards, D.  1991.  Birds of Kenya: A Celebration.  H. Hamilton, London.

von Perlo, B.  1996.  Birds of Eastern Africa.  HarperCollins, London.

Williams, J.G.  1980.  A field guide to the birds of East Africa.  HarperCollins, London.

Zimmerman, D. A., D.A. Turner and D.J. Pearson.  1996.  Field guide to the birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania.  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

 
Mammal Guides

Aggundey, I.R.  1984.  Annotated checklist of the mammals of Kenya.   Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA.

Copley, H.  1950.  Small mammals of Kenya.  HarperCollins, London.

Dorst, J. and P. Dandelot.  1985.  Larger mammals of Africa.  HarperCollins, London.

Haltenorth, T. and H. Diller.  1985.  Mammals of Africa.  HarperCollins, London.

 
Other Reference Books

Bennun, L. A.  1992.  Ornithological report, Kakamega Forest.  Centre for Biodiversity, National Museums of Kenya: KIFCON, Karura Forest Station, Nairobi: Chatham Maritime, Kent, UK.

Emerton, L.  1991.  Licensed utilisation of Kakamega Forest.  Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation Programme, Forest Dept., Nairobi.

Emerton, L.  1992.  Summary of findings on forest utilisation in Kakamega Forest.  Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation Programme, Forest Dept., Nairobi.

Emerton, L.  1994.  Summary of the current value of use of Kakamega Forest.  KIFCON, Karura Forest Station.  Natural Resources Institute [distributor], Nairobi: Chatham Maritime, Kent, UK.

Gibbon, M.  1991.  The Kakamega Forest night survey.  Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation Programme, Forest Dept., Nairobi.

Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation Programme.  1994.  Kakamega Forest: the official guide.  Forest Dept., Nairobi.

Kenya Indigenous Forest Conservation Programme.  1994.  A review of KIFCON phase I and identification of gaps arising from programme termination: proceedings of a workshop at Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, April 1994.   KIFCON, Forest Dept., Nairobi.

McClanahan, T.R. and T.P. Young (eds.).  1996.  East African Ecosystems and Their Conservation.  Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York.

Zimmerman, D.A.  1972.  The avifauna of the Kakamega Forest, western Kenya, including a bird population study.  American Museum of Natural History, New York.

 

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