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David Western
Affiliation : African Conservation Centre · University of Nairobi
- 40Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
Research profile
David Western has 40 indexed publications (1972–2023). Their work appears mainly in “African Journal of Ecology”, “Journal of Arid Environments” and “PLoS ONE”. Their most cited article, “The Status of Wildlife in Protected Areas Compared to Non-Protected Areas of Kenya” (2009), has been cited 347 times. 3 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in United States, France, United Kingdom.
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- Cascading effects of elephant–human interactions and the role of space and mobility in sustaining biodiversity
- Assessing Interactions between Agriculture, Livestock Grazing and Wildlife Conservation Land Uses: A Historical Example from East Africa
- Long-term changes in the plant ecology of an African savanna landscape and the implications for ecosystem theory and conservation management
- Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution
- Conservation from the inside‐out: Winning space and a place for wildlife in working landscapes
- Validating movement corridors for African elephants predicted from resistance-based landscape connectivity models
- Historical shifts in local attitudes towards wildlife by Maasai pastoralists of the Amboseli Ecosystem (Kenya): Insights from three conservation psychology theories
- Variability and Change in Maasai Views of Wildlife and the Implications for Conservation
- Fencing solves human‐wildlife conflict locally but shifts problems elsewhere: A case study using functional connectivity modelling of the African elephant
- Using step‐selection functions to model landscape connectivity for African elephants: accounting for variability across individuals and seasons
- Seasonal interactions of pastoralists and wildlife in relation to pasture in an African savanna ecosystem
- Seasonal movements of wildlife and livestock in a heterogenous pastoral landscape: Implications for coexistence and community based conservation
- Finding space for wildlife beyond national parks and reducing conflict through community based conservation: the Kenya experience
- Predicting Extreme Droughts in Savannah Africa: A Comparison of Proxy and Direct Measures in Detecting Biomass Fluctuations, Trends and Their Causes
- Impact of Land Subdivision and Sedentarization on Wildlife in Kenya’s Southern Rangelands
- Conservation outside Protected Areas and the Effect of Human‐Dominated Landscapes on Stress Hormones in Savannah Elephants
- Modelling the dynamics of migrations for large herbivore populations in the Amboseli National Park, Kenya
- Identifying Source Populations and Genetic Structure for Savannah Elephants in Human-Dominated Landscapes and Protected Areas in the Kenya-Tanzania Borderlands
- Fine‐scale group structure and demography of African savanna elephants recolonizing lands outside protected areas
- Modelling herbivore population dynamics in the Amboseli National Park, Kenya: Application of spatial aggregation of variables to derive a master model
- Rangeland Privatization and the Maasai Experience: Social Capital and the Implications for Traditional Resource Management in Southern Kenya
- Effects of cattle trampling on vegetation, infiltration, and erosion in a tropical rangeland
- Elevated levels of stress hormones in crop-raiding male elephants
- The Status of Wildlife in Protected Areas Compared to Non-Protected Areas of Kenya
- The impact of subdivision and sedentarization of pastoral lands on wildlife in an African savanna ecosystem
- Bone Assemblages Track Animal Community Structure over 40 Years in an African Savanna Ecosystem
- Policies for reducing human–wildlife conflict: a Kenya case study
- Pastoralist’s livestock and settlements influence game bird diversity and abundance in a savanna ecosystem of southern Kenya
- The impact of abandoned pastoral settlements on plant and nutrient succession in an African savanna ecosystem
- The role of abandoned pastoral settlements in the dynamics of African large herbivore communities
- Grasslands, People, and Conservation: Over‐the‐Horizon Learning Exchanges between African and American Pastoralists
- Woodland loss and restoration in a savanna park: a 20‐year experiment
- Habitat selection by large herbivores in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
- Structure and History of African Elephant Populations: I. Eastern and Southern Africa
- The future of the savannah ecosystems: ecological islands or faunal enclaves?
- New perspectives in vertebrate paleoecology from a recent bone assemblage
- Environmental aspects of settlement site decisions among pastoral Maasai
- The distribution, density and biomass density of lizards in a semi–arid environment of northern Kenya*
- Cyclical Changes in the Habitat and Climate of an East African Ecosystem
- An investigation of some sources of bias in aerial transect sampling of large mammal populations
Publication venues
- African Journal of Ecology × 5
- Journal of Arid Environments × 4
- PLoS ONE × 3
- Human Ecology × 2
- Animal Conservation × 2
- Conservation Biology × 2
Publications per year
- 20231
- 20212
- 20202
- 20193
- 20183
- 20171
- 20152
- 20133
- 20123
- 20111
Collaborations
Partner institutions : International Livestock Research Institute · National Museums of Kenya · Moi University · Kenya Wildlife Service · Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Co-authors’ countries : United States · France · United Kingdom
Co-authors
- Victor N. Mose
- David Maitumo
- Shadrack Ngene
- Samantha Russell
- Marissa Ahlering
- Robin S. Reid
- Jeffrey S. Worden
- Rosemary Joy Groom
- Moses Makonjio Okello
- Andrew N. Muchiru
- John Waithaka
- Colin James Pennycuick
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