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Peer-reviewed publications
Groundbreaking research includes the Kenya Long-Term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE), the most productive field experiment ever conducted in Africa.
Ongoing Research at Mpala
Mpala has a 30-year history of research that strives to find solutions to humanity's most pressing crises. Situated in a semi-arid savannah in northern Kenya, many of the center's long-term projects investigate ecological issues surrounding wildlife, ecology and land stewardship.
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Global Institutions
Mpala has welcomed researchers from over 65 institutions worldwide.
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Field-Based Genomics Lab
Mpala has one of the only field-based genomics labs in the region.
Ongoing Research Projects
This Princeton-led project explores building affordable and resilient housing in East Africa with locally available materials.
UHURU, a Princeton-led project, uses large-scale plots and electric fences to simulate size-based mammal extinctions but is distributed across a rainfall gradient.
This Princeton-led project primarily focuses on continual research on the endangered Grevy’s zebra ecology.
The KLEE experiment consists of 18 four-hectare plots in three replicate blocks. In each block, they use different semi-permeable barriers to exclude six combinations of cattle, wildlife, and mega-herbivores
ForestGEO spans 29 countries, focused on understanding the development and maintenance of biodiversity and our ability to evaluate and respond to the impacts of global climate change.
Researchers investigate knocking out natural enemies and stressors of buffelgrass in its home range (Kenya), in order to understand why the grass is so successful in introduced rangelands, pan-tropically.
This project is concerned with studying approaches for the sustainable coexistence of people, livestock, cheetahs and wild dogs.
The project aims to understand how social processes structure sleep patterns in individuals, groups, and populations and test how gregarious animals navigate the opportunities and constraints imposed by sleeping as part of a group.
This project seeks to better understand Vulturine Guineafowl's social structure and decision-making
This project works to understand how ant species and density in the inhabitation of acacia domatia influences the overal fungal communities and microbiome within the tree.
This project uses the AI-powered web platform GiraffeSpotter to estimate giraffe populations through photos collected by citizen scientists.
This project aims to conserve leopards in northern Kenya by determining population abundance, improving community coexistence, and broadening ecological understanding.
This project uses multiple methods to study plant responses to human impacts, such as climate change and herbivore extinction.
This project explores how the environment influences behavior in superb starlings in Kenya.
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