Gorongosa Research / Reports
The geology and climatic conditions in Gorongosa National Park (GNP) lead to an incredible diversity of landscapes and plant communities. The Park is also very biodiverse; nonetheless, other than the megafauna and a landscape-ecological study at the end of the 1960’s, the Park’s biodiversity was little studied prior to the implementation of the restoration project in 2005. The Gorongosa Project (GP) now enables a growing number of researchers to work in the park.
The Research Teams within the Science Department at Gorongosa works in the following areas, among others.
– Issuing Research Permits
– Constructing, staffing, managing and maintaining the scientific research center to ensure the health of the park’s ecosystems and provide scientific data to improve management within GNP and to regional conservation bodies.
– Builds capacity of Mozambican researchers, managers, and technicians in ecological research and monitoring
Browse the scientific reports below that have come from work done in Gorongosa National Park.
Forest cover on Gorongosa Mountain – Assessment of satellite imagery 2019 – May 2020
Dr Marc Stalmans, Margarida Victor
K. M. Gaynor, J. H. Daskin, L. N. Rich, J. S. Brashares
Iturriaga T, Raudabaugh DB, Karakehian JM, Miller AN, Hodge KT and Pfister DH
Primate adaptations and evolution in the Southern African Rift Valley.
Bobe R., Martínez F.I. & Carvalho S. 2020. Evolutionary Antropology. 1–8. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21826
A Healthy Park Needs Healthy Vegetation: The Story of Gorongosa National Park in the 21st Century
Hannah Herrero, Peter Waylen, Jane Southworth, Reza Khatami, Di Yang, Brian Child
New data on dragonflies (Odonata) of Mozambique, with a new country record of Phyllogomphus selysi Schouteden, 1933
Bernard R. & Bakowski M. 2020.
Trophic rewilding revives biotic resistance to shrub invasion
Jennifer A. Guyton, Johan Pansu, Matthew C. Hutchinson, Tyler R. Kartzinel, Arjun B. Potter, Tyler C. Coverdale, Joshua H. Daskin, Ana Gledis da Conceição, Mike J. S. Peel, Marc E. Stalmans & Robert M. Pringle
Waterbird colony count at Lake Urema, March and April 2019
Jason Denlinger, Dr. Marc Stalmans, Dr. Tara Massad.
Determinants of elephant foraging behaviour in a coupled human-natural system: Is brown the new green?
Paola S. Branco, Jerod A. Merkle, Robert M. Pringle, Johan Pansu, Arjun B. Potter, Alana Reynolds, Marc Stalmans, Ryan A. Long.
War-induced collapse and asymmetric recovery of large mammal populations in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Stalmans ME, Massad TJ, Peel MJS, Tarnita CE, Pringle RM. 2019.
Cascading impacts of large-carnivore extirpation in an African ecosystem.
Atkins J.L., Long R.A., Pansu J., Daskin J.H., Potter A.B., Stalmans M.E., Tarnita C.E. & Pringle R.M. 2019.
Opportunities for biodiversity conservation outside of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique: A multispecies approach.
Easter T., Bouley P. & Carter N. 2019.
Cascad Taxonomic review of the tribe Sisyphini sensu stricto Mulsant, 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in southern Africa, including new species descriptions. Insect Systematics & Evolution (2018)
Daniel Gimo M., Davis Adrian LV., Sole Catherine L. & Scholtz Clarke H. 2018
Effects of human settlement and roads on diel activity patterns of elephants (Loxodonta africana).
Gaynor K.M., Branco P.S., Long R.A. , Gonçalves D.D., Granli P.K. & Poole J.H. 2018.
Gorongosa by the sea – First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift, central Mozambique, and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts
Jörg M. Habermann, Matthias Alberti, Vera Aldeias, Zeresenay Alemseged, Will Archer, Marion Bamford, Dora Biro, David R. Braun, Cristian Capelli, Eugénia Cunha, Maria Ferreira da Silva, Tina Lüdecke, Hilário Madiquida, Felipe I. Martinez, Jacinto Mathe, Enquye Negash, Luis M.Paulo, Maria Pinto, Marc Stalmans, Frederico Tátá Regala, Jonathan G. Wynn, René Bobe & Susana Carvalho.
An experimental test of community-based strategies for mitigating human–wildlife conflict around protected areas
Paola S. Branco, Jerod A. Merkle, Robert M. Pringle, Lucy King, Tosca Tindall, Marc Stalmans, Ryan A. Long.
A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships
Felipe I. Martinez, Cristian Capelli, Maria J. Ferreira da Silva,Vera Aldeias,
Zeresenay Alemseged, William Archer, Marion Bamford, Dora Biro, Rene Bobe, David R. Braun, Jorg M. Habermann, Tina Lüdecke, Hilario Madiquida, Jacinto Mathe, Enquye Negash, Luis M. Paulo, Maria Pinto, Marc Stalmans, Frederico Tata, Susana Carvalho.
Waterbird colony count at Lake Urema, Parque Nacional da Gorongosa Mozambique, March and April 2019An experimental test of community-based strategies for mitigating human–wildlife conflict around protected areas
Jason Denlinger, Dr. Marc Stalmans, Dr. Tara Massad,
Martin Cheek , Quentin Luke, Hermenegildo Matimele, Aurélio Banze & Poppy Lawrence
Diet and gut microbiome of African viverrids
Malou Fabricius Rægaard Storm, Emilia Marie Rolander Langkjær
Trophic ecology of large herbivores in a reassembling African ecosystem
Johan Pansu. Jennifer A. Guyton, Arjun B. Potter, Justine L. Atkins, Joshua H. Daskin, Bart Wursten, Tyler R. Kartzinel, Robert M. Pringle
Post-war recovery of the African lion in response to large-scale ecosystem restoration
Paola Bouley, Michael Poulos, Rui Branco, Neil H. Carter
Integrative taxonomy resolves three new cryptic species of small southern African horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus)
Peter J Taylor, Angus Macdonald, Steven M Goodman, Teresa Kearney Fenton, P D Cotterill, Sam Stoffberg, Ara Monadjem, M Corrie Schoeman, Jennifer Guyton, Piotr Naskreck,i Leigh R Richards.
Timóteo S., Correia M., Rodríguez-Echeverría S., Freitas H. & Heleno R. 2018.
Carla MF Rodrigues, Herakles A Garcia, Adriana C Rodrigues, André G Costa-Martins, Carlos L Pereira, Dagmar L Pereira, Zakaria Bengaly, Luis Neves, Erney P Camargo, Patrick B Hamilton and Marta MG Teixeira. 2017
Description of a new flat gecko
William R. Branch, Jennifer A. Guyton, Andreas Schmitz, Michael F. Bare, Piotr Naskrecki, Harith Farooq, Luke Verburg t& Mark Oliver Rodel
Using repeat photography to observe vegetation change over time in Gorongosa National Park
Hannah V Herrero, Jane Southworth, Erin Bunting, Brian Child
Rodríguez-Echeverría Susana, Teixeira Helena, Correia Marta, Timóteo Sérgio, Ruben Heleno, Maarja Öpik and Moora Mari. 2016.
Bakowski Marek, Roszkowska Milena, Gawlak Magdalena and Kaczmarek Lukasz. 2016.
Chirindja F.J., Dahlin T., Perttu N., Steinbruch F. & Owen R. 2016.
Teixeira Helena & Rodríguez-Echeverría S. 2016.
Correia Marta, Timóteo S., Rodriguez-Echeverria S., Mazars-Simon A. & Heleno R. 2016.
David B. McWethy, Frank H. Neumann, Franziska Steinbruch, Casey M. Ryan & Verushka Valsecchi. 2016.
Daskin J.H., Stalmans M. & Pringle R.M. 2015.
African Bats: Conservation in the time of Ebola.
Guyton, J.A. and C.E. Brook. 2015.
A major waterbird breeding colony at Lake Urema, Gorongosa Nacional Park, Moçambique.
Stalmans M., Davies G.B.P., Trollip J. & Poole G. 2015.
Peter John Taylor, Teresa Catherine Kearney, Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Roderick M. Baxter and Sandi Willows-Munro
Davies, G.B.P., Symes C.T., Chittenden H.N., Peek J.R.
Illegal Hunting and the Bushmeat Trade in Central Mozambique: A Case Study from Coutada 9
Lindsey, P., Bento, C.