Peer-reviewed scientific articles

2025

  • Gross, M., T. H. Mwampamba, J. Sanya, J. Pearson, J. Sesabo, and B. Martín‐López. 2025. Understanding preferences for nature’s contributions to people between and within social actors sheds insights for inclusive conservation. People and Nature: pan3.70197. doi:10.1002/pan3.70197.
  • Gross, M., H. Von Wehrden, T. H. Mwampamba, J. Sanya, J. Pearson, J. K. Sesabo, M. Riechers, U. Arbieu, K. Böhning‐Gaese, B. Martín-López (2025). Broadening the Justifications for Inclusive Conservation: Values Associated With Nature’s Contributions to People. Conservation Letters 18: e13129. doi:10.1111/conl.13129.
  • Degano, M. E., Augustino Kwaslema, S., Böhning‐Gaese, K., Hemp, A., Lehnen, L., Martín‐López, B., Pearson, J., Mueller, T., & Arbieu, U. (2025). Perceptions of nature and its non‐material contributions to people at Mount Kilimanjaro. People and Nature, 7(7), 1697–1712. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70079
  • Yetchom Fondjo, J.A.; Wandji, A.C.; Zahiri, R.; Hawlitschek, O.; Hemp, C. (2025). Integrative Taxonomy Revealed Cryptic Diversity in the West African Grasshopper Genus Serpusia Karsch, 1891 (Orthoptera: Catantopinae). Insects 16, 1020. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16101020
  • Hemp C., Ritchie J. M., Cigliano M. M., Heller K.-G., Warchalowska-Śliwa E., Grzywacz B., Linde J., Uluar O., Oumarou-Ngoute C. & Song H. (2025). Out of sight, out of mind? Ixalidiidae, a new family of African forest grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) revealed by molecular phylogenetics and genital morphology. Zoosystema 47 (24): 489-553. http://zoosystema.com/47/24
  • Le Flanchec T., Robillard T., Hill JV. G., Hemp C., Nattier R. (2025). Inverse Latitudinal Diversity Gradient, Systematics and Historical Biogeography in the Gomphocerinae Grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Zoologica Scripta 0:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.70014
  • Hwang B. C., Giardina, C. P., Diao, H., Duboscq-Carra, V. G., Hemp, A., Hemp, C., Jiménez-Castilli, M., Lobos-Catalán, P., Mumladze, L., Palma, A. C., Petrintan, I. C., Rodriguez-Cabal, M. A., Andersson, T., Francisco, K. S., Gage, S. A., Ianoshvili, G., Walsh, S. K., Metcalfe, D. B. (2025). Insect Herbivory Releases More Nutrients in Warmer and Drier Forests. Global Biochemical Cycles 39(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008367
  • Pihlström, H., Hemp, C., Hemp, A., Knapp, L., Witting, O., Bearder, S. K., Kilawe, C. J., Rosti, H. (2025). Notes on Tree Hyraxes, Dwarf Galagos, and Other Mammals in the West and East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History 114(8): 66–79. https://doi.org/10.2982/028.114.0801
  • Gross, M., Shepeleva, D., Vogel, F., Mwampamba, T. H., Arbieu, U., Pearson, J., Sesabo, J. K., Codalli, F., & Martín-López, B. (2025). The questions we ask matter: Insights from place-based research on nature’s contributions to people. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01649-z
  • Sanya, J., Gross, M., Mwampamba, T. H., Pearson, J., Sesabo, J. K., Riechers, M., Kinabo, N. R., Krail, V., & Martín-López, B. (2025). Heterogeneity of demands for nature’s contributions to people and nature’s values by farmers: Insights from the Kilimanjaro social-ecological system. Ecology and Society, 30(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15961-300225
  • Shagega, F. P., Codalli, F., Jacobs, S., Munishi, S. E., Windhorst, D., & Breuer, L. (2025). Quantifying preferential flow occurrence in dependence of land cover on the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 58, 102215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102215

2024

  • Abera, T. A., Heiskanen, J., Maeda, E. E., Muhammed, M. A., Bhandari, N., Vakkari, V., Hailu, B. T., Pellikka, P. K. E., Hemp, A., van Zyl, P. G., & Zeuss, D. (2024). Deforestation amplifies climate change effects on warming and cloud level rise in African montane forests. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6992. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51324-7
  • Bianco, G., Manning, P., & Schleuning, M. (2024). A quantitative framework for identifying the role of individual species in Nature’s Contributions to People. Ecology Letters, 27(2), e14371. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14371
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O. J., & Hemp, C. (2024). Studies on chevron crickets: Tryposoma gen. nov. (Orthoptera, Anostostomatidae), a new genus from Tanzania. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 33(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.33.115670
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O. J., Landeck, I., & Hemp, C. (2024). Studies on chevron crickets: Minarisoma gen. nov. (Orthoptera, Anostostomatidae), a new genus and a new species from South Africa. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 33(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.33.115888
  • Chala, D., Gizaw, A., Thorn, J. P. R., Sanchez, A. C., Eilu, G., Demissew, S., Hemp, C., Hemp, A., Schmitt, C. B., Marchant, R., & Brochmann, C. (2024). Chapter 15 – The sky islands in eastern Africa: Biodiversity, opportunities, and risks. In S. Schneiderbauer, P. Fontanella Pisa, J. F. Shroder, & J. Szarzynski (Eds.), Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems, Vol 2 (pp. 97–107). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-32824-4.00034-1
  • Codalli, F., Shagega, F., Breuer, L., Munishi, S., & Jacobs, S. (2024). Domestic and irrigation water quality on the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Discover Water, 4(1), 81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43832-024-00141-6
  • Heller, K.-G., & Hemp, C. (2024). Egg shape and size in Phaneropterinae and other Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera, Ensifera): A global review with new data. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 33(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.33.116173
  • Hemp, A., & Hemp, J. (2024). Weather or not—Global climate databases: Reliable on tropical mountains? PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0299363. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299363
  • Hwang, B. C., Giardina, C. P., Adu-Bredu, S., Barrios-Garcia, M. N., Calvo-Alvarado, J. C., Dargie, G. C., Diao, H., Duboscq-Carra, V. G., Hemp, A., Hemp, C., Huasco, W. H., Ivanov, A. V., Johnson, N. G., Kuijper, D. P. J., Lewis, S. L., Lobos-Catalán, P., Malhi, Y., Marshall, A. R., Mumladze, L., … Metcalfe, D. B. (2024). The impact of insect herbivory on biogeochemical cycling in broadleaved forests varies with temperature. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6011. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50245-9
  • Pearson, J., Gross, M., & Hofmann, J. (2024). Non-material contributions of nature expressed by former tourists of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. People and Nature, 6(1), 220–229. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10575
  • Yetchom Fondjo, J. A., Husemann, M., Fiemapong, A. R. N., Missoup, A. D., Kenne, M., Tindo, M., Hawlitschek, O., Duressa, T. F., Xu, S.-Q., Zhu, W., & Hemp, C. (2024). Integrative taxonomic revision of the grasshopper genera Parapetasia Bolívar, 1884, and Loveridgacris Rehn, 1954 (Orthoptera, Pyrgomorphidae), with description of a new species of Loveridgacris. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 71(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.71.125877

Publications from previous years

2023

  • Delavaux, C. S., Crowther, T. W., Zohner, C. M., Robmann, N. M., Lauber, T., van den Hoogen, J., Kuebbing, S., Liang, J., de-Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G.-J., Reich, P. B., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alvarado, B. V., Alvarez-Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Alves, L. F., … Maynard, D. S. (2023). Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature, 621(7980), 773–781. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06440-7
  • Gross, M., Pearson, J., Arbieu, U., Riechers, M., Thomsen, S., & Martín-López, B. (2023). Tourists’ valuation of nature in protected areas: A systematic review. Ambio, 52(6), 1065–1084. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01845-0
  • Hemp, A., Bianco, G., & Pócs, T. (2023). Homegardens and coffee plantations on Kilimanjaro: Refugium for bryophytes in densely cultivated landscapes. Hattoria, 14, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.18968/hattoria.14.0_1
  • Hemp, C. (2023a). A new species of Neoleva (Caelifera, Acridoidea, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae) from Central Tanzania. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 32(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.32.91581
  • Hemp, C. (2023b). Acrida bara, synomymous with A. sulphuripennis (Orthoptera, Acrididae, Acridinae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 32(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.32.93481
  • Hemp, C., Montealegre-Z, F., Woodrow, C., & Heller, K.-G. (2023). Bush-crickets with very special ears and songs – review of the East African Phaneropterinae genus Dioncomena Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878, with notes on its biogeography and the description of new species. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 70(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.70.100804
  • Kaasalainen, U., Kirika, P. M., Mollel, N. P., Hemp, A., & Rikkinen, J. (2023). The Lichen Genus Sticta (Lobariaceae, Peltigerales) in East African Montane Ecosystems. Journal of Fungi, 9(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof9020246
  • Ma, H., Crowther, T. W., Mo, L., Maynard, D. S., Renner, S. S., van den Hoogen, J., Zou, Y., Liang, J., de-Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G.-J., Reich, P. B., Niinemets, Ü., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alvarado, B. V., Alvarez-Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., … Zohner, C. M. (2023). The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit. Nature Plants, 9(11), 1795–1809. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01543-5
  • Watts, M., Mpanda, M., Hemp, A., & Peh, K. S.-H. (2023). The potential impact of future climate change on the production of a major food and cash crop in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. Science of The Total Environment, 865, 161263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161263

2022

  • Gebert, F., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Kronbach, P., & Peters, M. K. (2022). The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(11), 2181–2191. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13798
  • Heller, K.-G., Chobanov, D., Warchałowska-Śliwa, E., & Hemp, C. (2022). Review of song patterns and sound production in armoured ground crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hetrodini) with karyological data and taxonomic notes. Zootaxa, 5120(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5120.4.1
  • Hemp, A., Philipp, C., & Hemp, C. (2022). European Union’s Natura 2000 network: An effective tool for nature conservation? The relic pine forests of the Franconian Jura. Biodiversity and Conservation, 31(7), 1909–1926. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-022-02430-9
  • Hemp, C., & Rowell, C. H. F. (2022). A new species of Burttia Dirsh (Caelifera, Acridoidea, Acrididae, Catantopinae) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 31(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.31.70565
  • Kaasalainen, U., Biermann, L., Mollel, N. P., Schmidt, A. R., & Hemp, A. (2022). Peltigera (Lecanoromycetes) on Mt Kilimanjaro, East Africa. The Lichenologist, 54(5), 231–243. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282922000184
  • Kimaro, J. G. (2022). Water and soil management across agricultural land use and climatic gradient of Mt. Kilimanjaro [Doctoral thesis, Universität Bayreuth, Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften]. https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006468
  • Komposch, A., Ensslin, A., Fischer, M., & Hemp, A. (2022). Aboveground Deadwood Biomass and Composition Along Elevation and Land-Use Gradients at Mount Kilimanjaro. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 732092. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.732092
  • Masao, C. A., Prescott, G. W., Snethlage, M. A., Urbach, D., Torre‐Marin Rando, A., Molina‐Venegas, R., Mollel, N. P., Hemp, C., Hemp, A., & Fischer, M. (2022). Stakeholder perspectives on nature, people and sustainability at Mount Kilimanjaro. People and Nature, 4(3), 711–729. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10310
  • París, M., & Hemp, C. (2022). The type of Macroscirtus bicolor Bolívar, 1893 (Orthoptera, Ensifera, Tettigoniidae, Mecopodinae). Graellsia, 78(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2022.v78.327
  • Renner, M., Rembold, K., Hemp, A., & Fischer, M. (2022). Natural regeneration of woody plant species along an elevational and disturbance gradient at Mt. Kilimanjaro. Forest Ecology and Management, 520, 120404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120404
  • Vogeler, A. B., Otte, I., Ferger, S., Helbig‐Bonitz, M., Hemp, A., Nauss, T., Böhning‐Gaese, K., Schleuning, M., Tschapka, M., & Albrecht, J. (2022). Associations of bird and bat species richness with temperature and remote sensing‐based vegetation structure on a tropical mountain. Biotropica, 54(1), 135–145. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13037
  • Vogeler, A.-V. B. (2022). Diversity patterns and resource use of bats on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania [Doctoral thesis]. Univerity of Ulm.
  • Ziegler, A., Meyer, H., Otte, I., Peters, M. K., Appelhans, T., Behler, C., Böhning-Gaese, K., Classen, A., Detsch, F., Deckert, J., Eardley, C. D., Ferger, S. W., Fischer, M., Gebert, F., Haas, M., Helbig-Bonitz, M., Hemp, A., Hemp, C., Kakengi, V., … Nauss, T. (2022). Potential of Airborne LiDAR Derived Vegetation Structure for the Prediction of Animal Species Richness at Mount Kilimanjaro. Remote Sensing, 14(3), 786. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030786

2021

  • Albrecht, J., Peters, M. K., Becker, J. N., Behler, C., Classen, A., Ensslin, A., Ferger, S. W., Gebert, F., Gerschlauer, F., Helbig-Bonitz, M., Kindeketa, W. J., Kühnel, A., Mayr, A. V., Njovu, H. K., Pabst, H., Pommer, U., Röder, J., Rutten, G., Schellenberger Costa, D., … Schleuning, M. (2021). Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5(12), 1582–1593. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01550-9
  • Byamungu, R. M., Schleuning, M., Ferger, S. W., Helbig-Bonitz, M., Hemp, A., Neu, A., Vogeler, A., Böhning-Gaese, K., Tschapka, M., & Albrecht, J. (2021). Abiotic and biotic drivers of functional diversity and functional composition of bird and bat assemblages along a tropical elevation gradient. Diversity and Distributions, 27(12), 2344–2356. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13403
  • Cuni-Sanchez, A., Sullivan, M. J. P., Platts, P. J., Lewis, S. L., Marchant, R., Imani, G., Hubau, W., Abiem, I., Adhikari, H., Albrecht, T., Altman, J., Amani, C., Aneseyee, A. B., Avitabile, V., Banin, L., Batumike, R., Bauters, M., Beeckman, H., Begne, S. K., … Zibera, E. (2021). High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests. Nature, 596(7873), 536–542. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03728-4
  • Grzywacz, B., Warchałowska-Śliwa, E., Kociński, M., Heller, K.-G., & Hemp, C. (2021). Diversification of the Balloon bushcrickets (Orthoptera, Hexacentrinae, Aerotegmina) in the East African mountains. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 9878. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89364-4
  • Heller, K.-G., Heller, M., Volleth, M., Samietz, J., & Hemp, C. (2021). Similar songs, but different mate localization strategies of the three species of Phaneroptera occurring in Western Europe (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae). EJE, 118(1), 111–122. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2021.012
  • Hemp, A., Del Fabbro, C., & Fischer, M. (2021). Area modulates the effect of elevation but not of land use or canopy on tropical plant species richness. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30(14), 4265–4277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02304-6
  • Hemp, C. (2021). A new species of Physocrobylus (Caelifera: Acridoidea: Acrididae: Coptacrinae), with notes on the phenology and habitat of the genus. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 30(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3897/jor.30.53375
  • Hemp, C., & Massa, B. (2021). Biogeographical and evolutionary aspects of a Guineo-Congolian bushcricket tribe: Revision of the genera Cestromoecha Karsch, 1893 and Poreuomena Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878, with the description of new species (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 68(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.68.60193
  • Hemp, C., & París, M. (2021). A new species of Apteroscirtus Karsch, 1891 (Ensifera, Tettigoniidae, Mecopodinae) from Angola. Zootaxa, 5052(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.8
  • Kaasalainen, U., Tuovinen, V., Kirika, P. M., Mollel, N. P., Hemp, A., & Rikkinen, J. (2021). Diversity of Leptogium (Collemataceae, Ascomycota) in East African Montane Ecosystems. Microorganisms, 9(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020314
  • Mayr, A. V., Keller, A., Peters, M. K., Grimmer, G., Krischke, B., Geyer, M., Schmitt, T., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2021). Cryptic species and hidden ecological interactions of halictine bees along an elevational gradient. Ecology and Evolution, 11(12), 7700–7712. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7605
  • Mayr, A. V., Requier, F., Peters, M. K., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2021). Seasonal variation in the ecology of tropical cavity-nesting Hymenoptera on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Frontiers of Biogeography, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG49389
  • Mollel, N. P., Hemp, A., & Fischer, M. (2021). Phylogenetic diversity of plant communities in relation to elevation and human impact at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Forestry and Nature Conservation, 90(1), Article 1.
  • Njovu, H. K., Steffan‐Dewenter, I., Gebert, F., Schellenberger Costa, D., Kleyer, M., Wagner, T., & Peters, M. K. (2021). Plant traits mediate the effects of climate on phytophagous beetle diversity on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Ecology, 102(12), e03521. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3521
  • Prunera-Olivé, J., Vorontsova, M. S., Williams, E. V., Mollel, N. P., & Hemp, A. (2021). Checklist of Kilimanjaro grasses shows that both plot and herbarium methods are necessary to record diversity. Phytotaxa, 501(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.501.2.1
  • Seibold, S., Rammer, W., Hothorn, T., Seidl, R., Ulyshen, M. D., Lorz, J., Cadotte, M. W., Lindenmayer, D. B., Adhikari, Y. P., Aragón, R., Bae, S., Baldrian, P., Barimani Varandi, H., Barlow, J., Bässler, C., Beauchêne, J., Berenguer, E., Bergamin, R. S., Birkemoe, T., … Müller, J. (2021). The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition. Nature, 597(7874), 77–81. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03740-8
  • Sierra Cornejo, N., Leuschner, C., Becker, J. N., Hemp, A., Schellenberger Costa, D., & Hertel, D. (2021). Climate implications on forest above- and belowground carbon allocation patterns along a tropical elevation gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania). Oecologia, 195(3), 797–812. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04860-8
  • van der Plas, G. W., Rucina, S. M., Hemp, A., Marchant, R. A., Hooghiemstra, H., Schüler, L., & Verschuren, D. (2021). Climate-human-landscape interaction in the eastern foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro (equatorial East Africa) during the last two millennia. The Holocene, 31(4), 556–569. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620981694
  • Vogeler, A.-V. B., & Tschapka, M. (2021). Effects of land-use on fruit bat distribution in different habitats along the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Biotropica, 53(4), 1063–1070. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12945
  • Warchałowska-Śliwa, E., Grzywacz, B., Kociński, M., Maryańska-Nadachowska, A., Heller, K.-G., & Hemp, C. (2021). Highly divergent karyotypes and barcoding of the East African genus Gonatoxia Karsch (Orthoptera: Phaneropterinae). Scientific Reports, 11(1), 22781. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02110-8

2020

  • Bodé, S., De Wispelaere, L., Hemp, A., Verschuren, D., & Boeckx, P. (2020). Water-isotope ecohydrology of Mount Kilimanjaro. Ecohydrology, 13(1), e2171. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2171
  • Classen, A., Eardley, C. D., Hemp, A., Peters, M. K., Peters, R. S., Ssymank, A., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2020). Specialization of plant–pollinator interactions increases with temperature at Mt. Kilimanjaro. Ecology and Evolution, 10(4), 2182–2195. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6056
  • Gebert, F., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Moretto, P., & Peters, M. K. (2020). Climate rather than dung resources predict dung beetle abundance and diversity along elevational and land use gradients on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Journal of Biogeography, 47(2), 371–381. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13710
  • Heller, K.-G., & Hemp, C. (2020). Hyperdiverse songs, duetting, and the roles of intra- and intersexual selection in the acoustic communication of the genus Eurycorypha (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea, Phaneropterinae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 20(4), 597–617. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-020-00452-1
  • Hemp, C. (2020a). A new species of Stenampyx Karsch, 1890 from East Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Pseudophyllinae, Phyllomimini)—Evidence of a former connection of West-Central and East African forests. Zootaxa, 4763(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4763.4.9
  • Hemp, C. (2020b). New species of Mecopodinae (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) from Tanzania. Zootaxa, 4790(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.8
  • Hemp, C., Scherer, C., Brandl, R., & Pinkert, S. (2020). The origin of the endemic African grasshopper family Lentulidae (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) and its climate-induced diversification. Journal of Biogeography, 47(8), 1805–1815. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13880
  • Mayr, A. V., Peters, M. K., Eardley, C. D., Renner, M. E., Röder, J., & Steffan‐Dewenter, I. (2020). Climate and food resources shape species richness and trophic interactions of cavity‐nesting Hymenoptera. Journal of Biogeography, 47(4), 854–865. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13753
  • Molina-Venegas, R., Fischer, M., & Hemp, A. (2020). Plant evolutionary assembly along elevational belts at Mt. Kilimanjaro: Using phylogenetics to asses biodiversity threats under climate change. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 170, 103853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2019.103853
  • Molina-Venegas, R., Fischer, M., Mollel, N. P., & Hemp, A. (2020). Connecting plant evolutionary history and human well-being at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 194(4), 397–409. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boaa049
  • Mushi, H., Yanda, P. Z., & Kleyer, M. (2020). Socioeconomic Factors Determining Extraction of Non-timber Forest Products on the Slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Human Ecology, 48(6), 695–707. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-020-00187-9
  • Ndossi, E. M. (2020). Composition, degradation and stabilization of soil organic matter along an elevation gradient of Mount Kilimanjaro [Doctoral thesis]. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • Ndossi, E. M., Becker, J. N., Hemp, A., Dippold, M. A., Kuzyakov, Y., & Razavi, B. S. (2020). Effects of land use and elevation on the functional characteristics of soil enzymes at Mt. Kilimanjaro. European Journal of Soil Biology, 97, 103167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2020.103167
  • Peters, M. K., Classen, A., Müller, J., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2020). Increasing the phylogenetic coverage for understanding broad-scale diversity gradients. Oecologia, 192(3), 629–639. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04615-x
  • Schumacher, B., Katurji, M., Meyer, H., Appelhans, T., Otte, I., & Nauss, T. (2020). Atmospheric moisture pathways of East Africa and implications for water recycling at Mount Kilimanjaro. International Journal of Climatology, 40(10), 4477–4496. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6468
  • Shen, C., Gunina, A., Luo, Y., Wang, J., He, J.-Z., Kuzyakov, Y., Hemp, A., Classen, A. T., & Ge, Y. (2020a). Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient. Environmental Microbiology, 22(8), 3287–3301. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15090
  • Shen, C., Gunina, A., Luo, Y., Wang, J., He, J.-Z., Kuzyakov, Y., Hemp, A., Classen, A. T., & Ge, Y. (2020b). Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient. Environmental Microbiology, 22(8), 3287–3301. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15090
  • Sierra Cornejo, N. (2020). The role of the fine root system in carbon fluxes and carbon allocation patterns of tropical ecosystems along a climate and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro [Georg-August-University Göttingen]. https://doi.org/10.53846/goediss-8246
  • Sierra Cornejo, N., Hertel, D., Becker, J. N., Hemp, A., & Leuschner, C. (2020). Biomass, Morphology, and Dynamics of the Fine Root System Across a 3,000-M Elevation Gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00013
  • Vollstädt, M. G. R., Albrecht, J., Böhning-Gaese, K., Hemp, A., Howell, K. M., Kettering, L., Neu, A., Neuschulz, E. L., Quitián, M., Santillán, V. E., Töpfer, T., Schleuning, M., & Fritz, S. A. (2020). Direct and plant-mediated effects of climate on bird diversity in tropical mountains. Ecology and Evolution, 10(24), 14196–14208. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7014
  • Warchałowska-Śliwa, E., Grzywacz, B., Maryańska-Nadachowska, A., Heller, K.-G., & Hemp, C. (2020). Rapid chromosomal evolution in the bush-cricket Gonatoxia helleri Hemp, 2016 (Orthoptera, Phaneropterinae). Comparative Cytogenetics, 14, 417–435. https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v14i3.54422

 

 

 

Before 2020

  • Albrecht, J., Classen, A., Vollstädt, M. G. R., Mayr, A., Mollel, N. P., Schellenberger Costa, D., Dulle, H. I., Fischer, M., Hemp, A., Howell, K. M., Kleyer, M., Nauss, T., Peters, M. K., Tschapka, M., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Böhning-Gaese, K., & Schleuning, M. (2018). Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient. Nature Communications, 9(1), 3177. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05610-w
  • Appelhans, T., Mwangomo, E., Hardy, D. R., Hemp, A., & Nauss, T. (2015). Evaluating machine learning approaches for the interpolation of monthly air temperature at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Spatial Statistics, 14, 91–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2015.05.008
  • Appelhans, T., Mwangomo, E., Otte, I., Detsch, F., Nauss, T., & Hemp, A. (2016). Eco‐meteorological characteristics of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. International Journal of Climatology, 36(9), 3245–3258. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4552
  • Appelhans, T., & Nauss, T. (2016). Spatial Patterns of Sea Surface Temperature Influences on East African Precipitation as Revealed by Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections. Frontiers in Earth Science, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2016.00003
  • Becker, J. N. (2017). Carbon and nutrient cycles depending on climate and land use along the elevation gradient of Mount Kilimanjaro [Doctoral thesis]. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • Becker, J. N., Dippold, M. A., Hemp, A., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2019). Ashes to ashes: Characterization of organic matter in Andosols along a 3400 m elevation transect at Mount Kilimanjaro using analytical pyrolysis. CATENA, 180, 271–281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.04.033
  • Becker, J. N., Gütlein, A., Sierra Cornejo, N., Kiese, R., Hertel, D., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2017). Legume and Non-legume Trees Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration in Savanna. Ecosystems, 20(5), 989–999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-0087-7
  • Becker, J. N., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2018). Teatime on Mount Kilimanjaro: Assessing climate and land-use effects on litter decomposition and stabilization using the Tea Bag Index. Land Degradation & Development, 29(8), 2321–2329. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2982
  • Becker, J., Pabst, H., Mnyonga, J., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2015). Annual litterfall dynamics and nutrient deposition depending on elevation and land use at Mt. Kilimanjaro. Biogeosciences, 12(19), 5635–5646. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5635-2015
  • Blagodatskaya, Е., Blagodatsky, S., Khomyakov, N., Myachina, O., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2016). Temperature sensitivity and enzymatic mechanisms of soil organic matter decomposition along an altitudinal gradient on Mount Kilimanjaro. Scientific Reports, 6(1), 22240. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22240
  • Bruijnzeel, L. A., Scatena, F. N., & Hamilton, L. S. (2011). Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press.
  • Classen, A. (2014). DIVERSITY, TRAITS AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF  POLLINATORS ALONG CLIMATE AND LAND USE GRADIENTS ON  MOUNT KILIMANJARO [Doctoral thesis]. Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg.
  • Classen, A., Peters, M. K., Ferger, S. W., Helbig-Bonitz, M., Schmack, J. M., Maassen, G., Schleuning, M., Kalko, E. K. V., Böhning-Gaese, K., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2014). Complementary ecosystem services provided by pest predators and pollinators increase quantity and quality of coffee yields. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1779), 20133148. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.3148
  • Classen, A., Peters, M. K., Kindeketa, W. J., Appelhans, T., Eardley, C. D., Gikungu, M. W., Hemp, A., Nauss, T., & Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2015). Temperature versus resource constraints: Which factors determine bee diversity on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(6), 642–652. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12286
  • Classen, A., Steffan‐Dewenter, I., Kindeketa, W. J., & Peters, M. K. (2017). Integrating intraspecific variation in community ecology unifies theories on body size shifts along climatic gradients. Functional Ecology, 31(3), 768–777. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12786
  • Detsch, F., Otte, I., Appelhans, T., Hemp, A., & Nauss, T. (2016). Seasonal and long-term vegetation dynamics from 1-km GIMMS-based NDVI time series at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Remote Sensing of Environment, 178, 70–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.03.007
  • Detsch, F., Otte, I., Appelhans, T., & Nauss, T. (2016). A Comparative Study of Cross-Product NDVI Dynamics in the Kilimanjaro Region—A Matter of Sensor, Degradation Calibration, and Significance. Remote Sensing, 8(2), 159. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8020159
  • Detsch, F., Otte, I., Appelhans, T., & Nauss, T. (2017). A glimpse at short-term controls of evapotranspiration along the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 189(9), 465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-6179-9
  • Dulle, H. I., Ferger, S. W., Cordeiro, N. J., Howell, K. M., Schleuning, M., Böhning‐Gaese, K., & Hof, C. (2016). Changes in abundances of forest understorey birds on Africa’s highest mountain suggest subtle effects of climate change. Diversity and Distributions, 22(3), 288–299. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12405
  • Enghoff, H., & Frederiksen, S. B. (2015). A mountain of millipedes II: The genus Aquattuor Frederiksen, 2013 – five new species from the Udzungwa Mountains and one from Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 150, Article 150. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.150
  • Ensslin, A., & Fischer, M. (2015). Variation in life‐history traits and their plasticities to elevational transplantation among seed families suggests potential for adaptative evolution of 15 tropical plant species to climate change. American Journal of Botany, 102(8), 1371–1379. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1400518
  • Ensslin, A., Mollel, N. P., Hemp, A., & Fischer, M. (2018). Elevational transplantation suggests different responses of African submontane and savanna plants to climate warming. Journal of Ecology, 106(1), 296–305. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12842
  • Ensslin, A., Rutten, G., Pommer, U., Zimmermann, R., Hemp, A., & Fischer, M. (2015). Effects of elevation and land use on the biomass of trees, shrubs and herbs at Mount Kilimanjaro. Ecosphere, 6(3), art45. https://doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00492.1
  • Ferger, S. W., Dulle, H. I., Schleuning, M., & Böhning-Gaese, K. (2016). Frugivore diversity increases frugivory rates along a large elevational gradient. Oikos, 125(2), 245–253. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.02296
  • Ferger, S. W., Peters, M. K., Appelhans, T., Detsch, F., Hemp, A., Nauss, T., Otte, I., Böhning-Gaese, K., & Schleuning, M. (2017). Synergistic effects of climate and land use on avian beta-diversity. Diversity and Distributions, 23(11), 1246–1255. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12615
  • Ferger, S. W., Schleuning, M., Hemp, A., Howell, K. M., & Böhning-Gaese, K. (2014). Food resources and vegetation structure mediate climatic effects on species richness of birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23(5), 541–549. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12151
  • Fischer, R., Ensslin, A., Rutten, G., Fischer, M., Costa, D. S., Kleyer, M., Hemp, A., Paulick, S., & Huth, A. (2015). Simulating Carbon Stocks and Fluxes of an African Tropical Montane Forest with an Individual-Based Forest Model. PLOS ONE, 10(4), e0123300. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123300
  • Frederiksen, S. B., & Enghoff, H. (2015). East African odontopygid millipedes 4: A restricted redefinition of the genus <em>Rhamphidarpoides</em> Kraus, 1960, a related new genus, five new species, and notes on solenomere function (Diplopoda; Spirostreptida; Odontopygidae). Zootaxa, 3926(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3926.4.5
  • Gebert, F. (2019). MAMMALS AND DUNG BEETLES ALONG ELEVATIONAL AND  LAND USE GRADIENTS ON MOUNT KILIMANJARO:  DIVERSITY, TRAITS AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES [Doctoral thesis]. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
  • Gebert, F., Njovu, H. K., Treydte, A. C., Steffan-Dewenter, I., & Peters, M. K. (2019). Primary productivity and habitat protection predict elevational species richness and community biomass of large mammals on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88(12), 1860–1872. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13074
  • Gerschlauer, F., Dannenmann, M., Kühnel, A., Meier, R., Kolar, A., Butterbach-Bahl, K., & Kiese, R. (2016). Gross Nitrogen Turnover of Natural and Managed Tropical Ecosystems at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Ecosystems, 19(7), 1271–1288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-0001-3
  • Gerschlauer, F., Saiz, G., Schellenberger Costa, D., Kleyer, M., Dannenmann, M., & Kiese, R. (2019). Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of leaves, litter, and soils of various ecosystems along an elevational and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Biogeosciences, 16(2), 409–424. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-409-2019
  • Getzin, S., Fischer, R., Knapp, N., & Huth, A. (2017). Using airborne LiDAR to assess spatial heterogeneity in forest structure on Mount Kilimanjaro. Landscape Ecology, 32(9), 1881–1894. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0550-7
  • Ghazanfar, S. A., Beentje, H. J., & Royal Botanic Gardens (Eds.). (2006). Taxonomy and ecology of African plants, their conservation and sustainable use: Proceedings of the 17th AETFAT Congress, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Kew Publishing.
  • Gütlein, A., Dannenmann, M., & Kiese, R. (2016). Gross nitrogen turnover rates of a tropical lower montane forest soil: Impacts of sample preparation and storage. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 95, 8–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.12.002
  • Gütlein, A., Gerschlauer, F., Kikoti, I., & Kiese, R. (2018). Impacts of climate and land use on N2 O and CH4 fluxes from tropical ecosystems in the Mt. Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania. Global Change Biology, 24(3), 1239–1255. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13944
  • Gütlein, A., Zistl-Schlingmann, M., Becker, J. N., Cornejo, N. S., Detsch, F., Dannenmann, M., Appelhans, T., Hertel, D., Kuzyakov, Y., & Kiese, R. (2017). Nitrogen turnover and greenhouse gas emissions in a tropical alpine ecosystem, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Plant and Soil, 411(1), 243–259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-3029-4
  • Hanz, D. M., Böhning-Gaese, K., Ferger, S. W., Fritz, S. A., Neuschulz, E. L., Quitián, M., Santillán, V., Töpfer, T., & Schleuning, M. (2019). Functional and phylogenetic diversity of bird assemblages are filtered by different biotic factors on tropical mountains. Journal of Biogeography, 46(2), 291–303. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13489
  • Helbig-Bonitz, M., Ferger, S. W., Böhning-Gaese, K., Tschapka, M., Howell, K., & Kalko, E. K. V. (2015). Bats are Not Birds – Different Responses to Human Land-use on a Tropical Mountain. Biotropica, 47(4), 497–508. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12221
  • Helbig‐Bonitz, M., Rutten, G., & Kalko, E. K. V. (2014). Fruit bats can disperse figs over different landuse types on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology, 52(1), 122–125. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12090
  • Hemp, A. (2001). Ecology of the Pteridophytes on the Southern Slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Part II: Habitat Selection. Plant Biology, 3(5), 493–523. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2001-17729
  • Hemp, A. (2002). Ecology of the pteridophytes on the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro – I. Altitudinal distribution. Plant Ecology, 159(2), 211–239. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015569125417
  • Hemp, A. (2005). Climate change-driven forest fires marginalize the impact of ice cap wasting on Kilimanjaro. Global Change Biology, 11(7), 1013–1023. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00968.x
  • Hemp, A. (2006a). Continuum or zonation? Altitudinal gradients in the forest vegetation of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Plant Ecology, 184(1), 27–42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-005-9049-4
  • Hemp, A. (2006b). The Banana Forests of Kilimanjaro: Biodiversity and Conservation of the Chagga Homegardens. Biodiversity & Conservation, 15(4), 1193–1217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-004-8230-8
  • Hemp, A. (2006c). Vegetation of Kilimanjaro: Hidden endemics and missing bamboo. African Journal of Ecology, 44(3), 305–328. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00679.x
  • Hemp, A. (2008). Introduced plants on Kilimanjaro: Tourism and its impact. Plant Ecology, 197(1), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-007-9356-z
  • Hemp, A. (2009). Climate change and its impact on the forests of Kilimanjaro. African Journal of Ecology, 47(s1), 3–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2008.01043.x
  • Hemp, A., & Hemp, C. (2018). Broken bridges: The isolation of Kilimanjaro’s ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 24(8), 3499–3507. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14078
  • Hemp, A., Zimmermann, R., Remmele, S., Pommer, U., Berauer, B., Hemp, C., & Fischer, M. (2017). Africa’s highest mountain harbours Africa’s tallest trees. Biodiversity and Conservation, 26(1), 103–113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1226-3
  • Hemp, C. (2005). The Chagga home gardens – Relict areas for endemic Saltatoria species (Insecta: Orthoptera) on Mount Kilimanjaro. Biological Conservation, 125(2), 203–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2005.03.018
  • Hemp, C. (2009). Annotated List of Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 18(2), 183–214.
  • Hemp, C. (2013). Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Zootaxa, 3613, 301–342. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.1
  • Hemp, C., Böhning-Gaese, K., Fischer, M., & Hemp, A. (2018). The KiLi Project: Kilimanjaro ecosystems under global change: linking biodiversity, biotic interactions and biogeochemical ecosystem processes. Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.
  • Hemp, C., & Hemp, A. (2003). SALTATORIA COENOSES OF HIGH-ALTITUDE GRASSLANDS ON MT. KILIMANJARO, TANZANIA (ORTHOPTERA: SALTATORIA). Ecotropica, 7, 71–97.
  • Hurskainen, P., Adhikari, H., Siljander, M., Pellikka, P. K. E., & Hemp, A. (2019). Auxiliary datasets improve accuracy of object-based land use/land cover classification in heterogeneous savanna landscapes. Remote Sensing of Environment, 233, 111354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111354
  • Kimaro, J., & Bogner, C. (2019). Water management under traditional farming systems: Practices and limitations of the Mfongo system around Mt. Kilimanjaro. Water Utility Journal, 22, 53–54.
  • Kimaro, J. G., Scharsich, V., Kolb, A., Huwe, B., & Bogner, C. (2019). Distribution of Traditional Irrigation Canals and Their Discharge Dynamics at the Southern Slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7, 24. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00024
  • Kindeketa, W. J. (2014). POLLINATION IN WILD PLANT COMMUNITIES ALONG ALTITUDINAL AND  LAND USE GRADIENTS ON MOUNT KILIMANJARO, TANZANIA [Doctoral thesis]. Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg.
  • Kühnel, A. (2014). Variability of physical, chemical and hydraulic parameters in soils of Mt. Kilimanjaro across different land uses [Doctoral thesis, University of Bayreuth]. https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/2071/
  • Kühnel, A., & Bogner, C. (2017). I n‐situ prediction of soil organic carbon by vis– NIR spectroscopy: An efficient use of limited field data. European Journal of Soil Science, 68(5), 689–702. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12448
  • Kuppler, J., Fricke, J., Hemp, C., Steffan-Dewenter, I., & Peters, M. K. (2015). Conversion of savannah habitats to small-scale agriculture affects grasshopper communities at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Journal of Insect Conservation, 19(3), 509–518. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-015-9772-7
  • Mayr, A. (2019). Following Bees and Wasps up Mt. Kilimanjaro: From Diversity and Traits to hidden Interactions of Species [Doctoral thesis]. Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg.
  • Mganga, K. Z., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2014). Glucose decomposition and its incorporation into soil microbial biomass depending on land use in Mt. Kilimanjaro ecosystems. European Journal of Soil Biology, 62, 74–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2014.02.015
  • Mganga, K. Z., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2018). Land use and fertilisation affect priming in tropical andosols. European Journal of Soil Biology, 87, 9–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.04.001
  • Mganga, K. Z., Razavi, B. S., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2015). Microbial and enzymes response to nutrient additions in soils of Mt. Kilimanjaro region depending on land use. European Journal of Soil Biology, 69, 33–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2015.05.001
  • Mganga, K. Z., Razavi, B. S., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2016). Land use affects soil biochemical properties in Mt. Kilimanjaro region. CATENA, 141, 22–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.02.013
  • Mollel, N. P., Fischer, M., & Hemp, A. (2017). Usable wild plant species in relation to elevation and land use at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Alpine Botany, 127(2), 145–154. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-017-0187-9
  • Montade, V., Schüler, L., Hemp, A., Bremond, L., Salamanca Duarte, A. M., & Behling, H. (2018). Late Quaternary ecotone change between sub-alpine and montane forest zone on the leeward northern slope of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Journal of Vegetation Science, 29(3), 459–468. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12639
  • Mushi, H. K. (2019). Comparing perceptions and realities of non-timber forest products extraction, agricultural practices and land use change along the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania [Doctoral thesis, Carl von Ossietzky Universität  Oldenburg]. https://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/4346/
  • Njovu, H. K. (2018). Patterns and drivers of herbivore diversity and invertebrate herbivory along elevational and  land use gradients at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania [Doctoral thesis]. Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg.
  • Njovu, H. K., Peters, M. K., Schellenberger Costa, D., Brandl, R., Kleyer, M., & Steffan‐Dewenter, I. (2019). Leaf traits mediate changes in invertebrate herbivory along broad environmental gradients on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88(11), 1777–1788. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13058
  • Otte, I., Detsch, F., Gütlein, A., Scholl, M., Kiese, R., Appelhans, T., & Nauss, T. (2017). Seasonality of stable isotope composition of atmospheric water input at the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Hydrological Processes, 31(22), 3932–3947. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.11311
  • Otte, I., Detsch, F., Mwangomo, E., Hemp, A., Appelhans, T., & Nauss, T. (2017). Multidecadal Trends and Interannual Variability of Rainfall as Observed from Five Lowland Stations at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18(2), 349–361. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-16-0062.1
  • Pabst, H. (2014). Factors controlling microbial biomass  in soils of Mt. Kilimanjaro [Doctoral thesis]. Universität Bayreuth.
  • Pabst, H., Gerschlauer, F., Kiese, R., & Kuzyakov, Y. (2016). Land Use and Precipitation Affect Organic and Microbial Carbon Stocks and the Specific Metabolic Quotient in Soils of Eleven Ecosystems of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Land Degradation & Development, 27(3), 592–602. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2406
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