Cattle in Enong Narok swamp, Amboseli area, September 2015. Photo by Anna Shoemaker.
Ongoing studies by REAL project members aim to unravel the history of ecosystem change and human-environment interactions in the Amboseli region of Kenya, just north of Mount Kilimanjaro at the Kenya-Tanzania border.
A new article in the Global Land Project Newsletter explores some of the preliminary insights that can be found at:
Courtney Mustaphi, C J, Shoemaker, A.C., Githumbi, E.N., Kariuki, R., Muriuki, R.M., Rucina, S., Marchant, R. 2015. Historical ecology perspectives of changes in Amboseli, Kenya. GLP Newsletter – Newsletter of the Global Land Project, Issue 12, November 2015: pp 26-29. [Link to full issue]
A model of the Amboseli region ecosystems and interactions with Mount Kilimanjaro