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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"serengeti"”.
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Computer modelling the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem
… model delineating the dynamics of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is initiated. Using the abundance of research data collected on this ecosystem over the last 40 years, the processes involved in setting-up such a model are investigated. First, a basic foundation, accommodating the spatial …
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Cheetah of the Serengeti Plains: A home range analysis
… from > 60 matrilines over 25 years in the Serengeti Plains to investigate lifetime, core, yearly, and seasonal range size with kernel density estimation. I investigate autocorrelation using time to statistical independence of locations. I confront the assumption of asymptotic home ranges by …
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Constructing a Bayesian Spatial Presence-Absence Model for Animals in the Serengeti National Park
Ecologists have been spearheading the Snapshot Serengeti project in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park for the past few years, a large camera trap project with the intent of discovering more about how animals interact with their environment. We fit a hierarchical logistic model to predict the …
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Enhancing paddy productivity through improving the irrigation scheme at Serengeti village in Bunda district.
The CNA was conducted in in Serengeti village in Bunda district District to identify the problems and needs of paddy farmers. Considering the findings of CNA several problems facing them and the associated needs were identified. Of these expansion of irrigation scheme was conceived as the most …
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The Economic Value of Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and Implications for Adjacent Local Communities
… study presents a theme on the Economic Value of Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and Implications for Adjacent local communities. Firstly, we introduce and develop a bio-economic model to examine optimal combination of livestock production and wildlife conservation designed for the Serengeti …
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Burning for birds : the response of bird communities to recent fire history in the Serengeti ecosystem
… fire history on bird communities in the greater Serengeti savanna ecosystem in Tanzania. The study investigated the influence of immediate fire event history ( < one year), cumulative fire regime history (over 14 years), and fire seasonality on bird assemblages. We predicted that the occurrence …
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Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Study the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Mammals in Serengeti National Park
… I work with camera trap data from the Snapshot Serengeti project in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania Africa. This data consists of the time and location where species were observed during the year 2012. Occupancy models are used to analyze this type of data, but they require discretization of …
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Access to Tourism Market Pro-ject for Sustainable Economic Development of Community around Protected Areas in Natta Mbiso village - Serengeti District
… from protected areas to lo-cal people in Serengeti district. Three villages adjacent Serengeti National Park (SENAPA) namely Bonchugu, Ikoma Robanda and Nata Mbiso were involved. Survey data were col-lected using household questionnaire survey, Focus Group Discussion (FGD), Semi-structured …
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ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY DRIVERS OF SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE GRASSY BIOME
… scale experiments were conducted in the Serengeti Ecosystem of East Africa, a savanna with an intact, natural disturbance regime. In xix Serengeti, I investigated the role of herbivores, soil, and climate interactions for influencing species distributions with a combination of greenhouse …
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AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF ANIMALS IN THE WILD: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN C-CAPSULE NETWORKS AND DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS.
… hours/week to label 3.2 million images from the Serengeti wild park. For our research, we are going to focus on wild data and keep proving that deep learning can do better and faster than the human equivalent labor for the same task. Moreover, this is also an opportunity to present some custom …
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An assessment of the contribution of Form Two National examination to academic performance in Form Four National examination: The case of Community Secondary Schools in Mara Region
… Makongoro, Mogabiri, Morembe, Mugango, Serengeti, and Suba secondary schools. The study involved mixed research approaches which entails Quantitative and Qualitative. Data were collected using documentary review. The findings confirmed that, Form Two National examination contributes to …
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Poverty and the Challenge of Quality Primary and Secondary School Education Access in Mara-Tanzania
… children. Eight subjects from Iramba-Serengeti, and Makoko-Musoma, in Mara, participated in the phenomenological interview. The survey involved teachers and former students–– through unstructured face to face interview. Virtually, half of the subjects lived and experienced poverty in …
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The effect of individual variability and larger carnivores on the functional response of cheetahs
… data from 34 years of observed cheetah hunts in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to investigate how reproductive condition, prey density, seasonality, and the proximity of larger predators affect cheetah kill rates, probability of successful attack, and time spent handling prey. Mothers with …
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The Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Grass Silicon Accumulation
… fitness (Chapter 1). In a common garden study of Serengeti grass species, I found that water supply, but not defoliation, resulted in induced silicon uptake (Chapter 2). In Serengeti’s highly heterogeneous soil landscape, I incorporated abiotic variation into a structural equation model, …
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Understanding the adoption of soil and water conservation practices: the role of social capital
… Additionally, the MRB is home to the Mau Mara Serengeti Sustainable Water Initiative (MaMaSe). The MaMaSe initiative is a public private partnership (P3) with the goal to promote sustainable water use, economic growth, and environmental conservation within the basin. The effect the MaMaSe …
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A Tale of Three Resources: The Influence of Multiple Resources on Plant-Herbivore Interactions
… on herbivore impact on plant biomass in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. This analysis found that herbivore impact on plant biomass decreased with rainfall, increased with plant P, and did not change with plant or soil N. To understand plant response to both changing resource supplies …
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Evaluation of rural land-use plans in protected area bio-networks in northeastern Tanzania
… within the Tarangire-Manyara, Greater Serengeti and MkomaziTsavo ecosystems. Several methods were used to provide an indication of the performance of the plans, against their stated objectives of minimising land-use conflict and conserving wildlife migratory routes. Eight hundred and …