Publications & Reports

Kasyoha-Kitomi Central Forest Reserve (KKCFR) covers nearly 40,000 ha of mid-altitude moist forest in the
central part of the Albertine Rift. The reserve lies in the administrative districts of Bushenyi, Rubirizi, Ibanda and
Kamwengye. The reserve is one of the few Uganda’s remaining medium altitude moist forests.

This report focuses on the current status of biodiversity in Echuya Central Forest Reserve, SW Uganda. The taxa assessed were the large and small mammals, birds, and plants (trees, shrubs and herbs). The selected taxa were used as proxies for overall biodiversity.

We present the first cross-continental comparison of the flowering and fruiting phenology of tropical forests across Africa. Flowering events of 5446 trees from 196 species across 12 sites and fruiting events of 4595 trees from 191 species across 11 sites were monitored over periods of 6 to 29 years and analyzed to describe phenology at the continental level.

ITFC's strategic plan from 2017-2022 is the institute's guiding plan on how to continue its work conservation and ecological research in a time when research is ever more important despite the rise of new challenges to the activities of research. This strategic plan establishes ITFC as a forward thinking and moving research leader in the albertine ecoregion.

Monitoring of environmental parameters is one of the highest priorities in the evaluation of environmental status of water resources and in environmental protection policy. The main objectives are to understand and evaluate the water quantity and quality in order to provide water of appropriate quality to various water users. The water quantity was assessed by the measurement of runoff.

Balancing forest conservation with resource extraction by local people is challenging. In the mountain forests of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, this was addressed by permitting regulated access to certain forest products in specific areas by authorized local people. However, it remained unclear whether harvest levels were biologically sustainable.

We explored the effect of tree species richness on tree volume productivity at the global scale using repeated forest inventories from 777,126 permanent sample plots in 44 countries containingmore than 30 million trees from 8737 species spanningmost of the global terrestrial biomes. Our findings reveal a consistent positive concave-down effect of biodiversity on forest productivity across world