Badru Mugerwa
PhD student
Department of Ecological Dynamics
Tel: 0049 (0) 30 5168 - 335
E-Mail: mugerwa@izw-berlin.de
Short curriculum vitae
- 10/2019-present: DAAD fellow & Doctoral candidate, ‘technische Universität Berlin & Leibniz-IZW; Thesis: A pan tropical assessment of the impacts of habitat degradation on tropical forest terrestrial mammals
- 06/2019-09/2019: DAAD fellow, Goethe Institute, Goettigen, Germany
- 04/2019-05/2019: DAAD fellow, Goethe Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
- 04/2018-03/2019: Private biodiversity consultant, Kampala, Uganda
- 01/2016-04/2018: MSc Biology (Wildlife Ecology), University of Western Ontario, Ontario, -Canada
- 02/2014-09/2014: Postgraduate Diploma (International Wildlife Conservation Practice), Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
- 08/2010-08/2013: MSc Biology (Forest ecology and Conservation), Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.
- 05/2009-12/2015: Principal Researcher TEAM Network, Bwindi Site, Uganda
- 08/2004-06/2008: BSc Forestry at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
- Biodiversity
- Camera trapping
- Conservation
- Ecology
- Habitat degradation
- Poaching
- Protected areas
O'Brien TG, et al. (2019): Camera trapping reveals trends in forest duiker populations in African National Parks. REMOTE SENS ECOL CONSERV. doi:10.1002/rse2.132
Mugerwa B, et al. (2017): Increased foraging success or competitor avoidance? Diel activity of sympatric large carnivores. J MAMMOL 98, 1443-1452. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyx090
Suraci JP, et al. (2017): A new Automated Behavioural Response system to integrate playback experiments into camera trap studies. METHODS ECOL EVOL 8, 957-964. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12711
Beaudrot L, et al. (2016): Standardized assessment of biodiversity trends in tropical forest protected areas: The end is not in sight. PLOS BIOL 14, e1002357. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002357