Thesis

Zonation on mountains, whereby species of animals and plants are replaced by different species with changes in altitude, is a well-known ecological phenomenon.

Mountain gorillas are strict herbivores and their diverse diet is apparently determined to a great extent by nutritional and non-nutritional chemistry.

This study considers the economic value of conservation to Uganda as a nation, on the basis that if too few benefits flow to the nation, and too many flows to the planet at large, conservation will represent a national dis-benefit and therefore be under permanent threat. 

This thesis investigated plant-herbivore dynamics in the Birunga volcanoes region in Central Africa, one of the few strongholds of mountain gorillas.