Browsing by Author "Newmark, William D."

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    The Ambangulu Forest, West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: A Threatened Eastern Arc Forest. Oryx
    (1995-06) Goodman, Steven M.; Stanley, William T.; Newmark, William D.; Howell, Kim
    Ambangulu Forest is one of the few remaining tracts of natural forest between 800 and 1200 m in the West Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. It may be the biologically richest area in the region but it is threatened by illegal felling of timber trees, wind damage, grazing and browsing livestock, and collection of fuel-wood and building poles. A proposed project aims to protect the forest and benefit local people at the same time.
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    Power to Detect trends in Ecological Indicators in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
    (2003-12) Newmark, William D.; Senzota, Ramadhani. B.M
    We evaluated the statistical power of monitoring protocols to detect, over a 10-year period, trends in indices of abundance of primates, hornbills and forest interior dung beetles and growth rates of epiphytic ferns in the Amani Nature Reserve, in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Local technicians are responsible for the day-to-day gathering of data. The existing monitoring protocols for blue monkey, silver-cheeked hornbills, trumpeter hornbills, forest interior dung beetles and Asplenium nidus have sufficient statistical power (>0.80) to detect trends of 65% or less over a 10-year period. Monitoring protocols for black and white colobus and Asplenium holstii have lower statistical power (<0.80). We therefore conclude that the majority of monitoring protocols of the East Usambara Ecological Monitoring Project have the capacity both logistically and statistically to detect long-term trends in important functional groups in the East Usambara Mountains.