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Prof. Mugatsia Tsingalia

Mugatsia Tsingalia 3Department of Biological Sciences

School of Natural Sciences (SONAS)-MMUST.

P.O. Box 190-50100

Kakamega, KENYA

Office no. SPD  Room 310

Kakamega-Webuye Road

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4135-8984

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Prof. Mugatsia Tsingalia

Prof. Mugatsia Tsingalia has a Doctorate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Biodiversity and Climate Change studies specialist with an emphasis on tropical forests. Prof. Tsingalia has over 40 years of teaching and research experience and has mentored many postgraduate students. He has extensive experience in university curriculum development at the departmental, faculty, and school levels and has developed a number of undergraduate and graduate programmes at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Moi University, Garissa University and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology.  He is an avid researcher in forests and wildlife at regional and national levels with over five years of research and monitoring, ecological and community conservation around the Kakamega tropical forest  and over ten years of continuous research and monitoring of climate change’s influence on the forest ecosystem in Kakamega County.

Additionally, Prof.Mugatsia Tsingalia has over ten years of working experience in training and consultations in sustainable forest management including training local communities in advocacy skills and fund-raising. He has an impressive peer-reviewed publication record in forest ecology and environment, long service in various Journal editorial boards and reviews, and long service to the community. His major research interests are in Tropical forests dynamics and climate change, Tropical forests and forest wildlife dynamics, Environmental Education and Management, Community resource conservation and sustainable utilization, Climate change, adaptation, mitigation, and resource monitoring, Long-term Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring, Land Use, Land Change impacts. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for Kakamega Tropical Forest Studies in  Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. He is a professional member of several academic clubs such as Nature Kenya, Kenya Forestry Society, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya, Ecological Society of East Africa (ESEA), and The American Association for Science and Technology.

He has been the head of departments at Moi University and the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, an external examiner at the University of Addis Ababa, Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity, Chairperson, Site Advisory Committee Kakamega Forest Ecosystem, Nature Kenya’s Project on the network of the strengthening protected area within the eastern montane forest hotspot of Kenya, and Mentor, My Community, Our Earth (My COE), Programme My COE / SERVIR Biodiversity Initiative in Africa.                      

Some of his Key publications

  1. Evalyne Kosgey Chepkoech, Humphrey Agevi, Henry Lung’ayia, Harrison Mugatsia Tsingalia. Woody Species Composition, Stand Structure and Regeneration Status of Londiani Forest in Kenya.Published on 3rd April 2024 in Forests. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040653
  2. Ouko Amose Obonyo,Humphrey Agevi & Mugatsia Harrison Tsingalia. Above-ground carbon stocks and its functional relationship with tree species diversity: the case of Kakamega and North Nandi Forests, Kenya. Published: 27 November 2023 in Scientific Reports. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47871-6
  3. Fredrick Nyongesa Kassilly Harrison Mugatsia Tsingalia. Persistence and Loss of Cultural Values of Tiriki Sacred Groves in Hamisi District, Kenya: Implications for Management. DOI: Published on 20th April 2023 in Cutting Edge Research in Biology. https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cerb/v7/3350A
  4. Aquila Isere Lwanga1, Harrison Mugatsia Tsingalia, Humphrey Agevi1orcid, Zablon Weku Shilenje. Effects of Sand-Harvesting on River Water Quality and Riparian Soil Physico-Chemical Properties.Published on 8th Augast 2022 in Open Journal of Ecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4236/oje.2022.128032
  5. Nelly Nambande Masayi, Paul Omondi, Mugatsia Tsingalia. Assessment of land use and land cover changes in Kenya’s Mt. Elgon forest ecosystem. published on 08 May 2021 in African Journal of Ecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12886
  6. James Odhiambo Maua, Harrison Mugatsia Tsingalia, Joshua Cheboiwo. Economic value of non-timber forest products utilized by the households adjacent to the South Nandi forest reserve in Kenya. Published on 30th October 2019 in ast African Agricultural and Forestry Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00128325.2019.1660037
  7. Hellen K. Mandela, Mugatsia H. Tsingalia ,Mary Gikungu, and Wilbur M. Lwande. Distance Effects on Diversity and Abundance of the Flower Visitors of Ocimum kilimandscharicum in the Kakamega Forest Ecosystem.Published 28 Aug 2018 in International Journal of Biodiversity. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/7635631
  8. James O. Maua, Tsingalia, Mugastia Harrison. Cheboiwo, JoshuaSocioeconomic Factors Influencing Dependence of Households on Non-Timber Forest Products in South Nandi Forest, Kenya. Publishe: 2018 inJournal of Economics and Sustainable Development. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234648453.pdf
  9. Humphrey Agevi1, Richard Onwonga, Shem Kuya. Mugatsia Tsingalia. CARBON STOCKS AND STOCK CHANGES IN AGROFORESTRY PRACTICES: A REVIEW1. Published on March 6 2017 in Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems. https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/939/93950595004.pdf
  10. H.M. Tsingalia, F.N. Kassily. The Origins Kakamega Forest Grasslands: A Critical Review. Published on 24th October 2017 in Journal of Human Ecology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09709274.2009.11906201
  11. M.G. Kariaga,H.W. Nyongesa,N.C.O. Keya,H.M. Tsingalia. Compost Physico-chemical Factors that Impact on Yield in Button Mushrooms, Agaricus bisporus (Lge) and Agaricus bitorquis (Quel) Saccardo.Published online on 31 Aug 2017 in Journal of Agricultural Sciences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09766898.2012.11884685
  12. Wabusya Moses, Humphrey Nyongesa, Martha Konje, Humphrey Agevi, Mugatsia Tsingali. Effects of land use practices on soil organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in river Nzoia drainage basin, Kenya.Agriculture, Published: Jun. 19, 2015 Forestry and Fisheries. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11648/j.aff.20150404.11
  13. Mugatsia Tsingalia. Impacts of selective logging on population structure and dynamics of a canopy tree (Olea capensis) in Kakamega forest.published: 03 August 2010 in African Journal of Ecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2010.01218.x
  14. J. W. Muriuki and, M. H. Tsingalia. A new population of de Brazza's monkey in Kenya. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2009. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300033883
  15. Fredrick Nyongesa Kassilly, Harrison Mugatsia Tsingalia,Harrison Mugatsia Tsingalia. Membership in Wildlife Clubs of Kenya and Its Influence on Beliefs about Wildlife.Published online: 16 May 2008 in Human Dimensions of Wildlife. https://doi.org/10.1080/10871200801886145
  16. Fredrick Kassilly,Mugatsia Tsingalia. Mitigating human-wildlife conflicts through wildlife fencing: A Kenyan case study Published on June 2008 in Wildlife Biology in Practice. DOI:https://doi.org/10.2461/wbp.2008.4.3
  17. Fredrick Nyongesa Kassilly, Harrison Mugatsia Tsingalia. Membership in Wildlife Clubs of Kenya and Its Influence on Beliefs about Wildlife. Published on 16th May 2008 in Human Dimensions of Wildlife. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10871200801886145
  18. J. M. Wahome, T. E. Rowell & H. M. Tsingalia. The natural history of de Brazza's monkey in Kenya. Published on June 1993 in International Journal of Primatology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02192776
  19. MUGATSIA H. TSINGALIA. Habitat disturbance, severity and patterns of abundance in Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya published on September 1990 in African Journal of Ecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1990.tb01154.x
  20. M. H. TSINGALIA. Variation in seedling predation and herbivory in Prunus africana in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya.published on September 1989 in African Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1989.tb01014.x
  21. Marina Cords, Betsy J. Mitchell, H. M. Tsingalia, T. E. Rowell. Promiscuous Mating among Blue Monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya. Published on December 1986 in International Journal of behavioural Biology . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1986.tb00622.x
  22. H. M. Tsingalia, T. E. Rowell. The Behaviour of Adult Male Blue Monkeys.Published in December 1984 in International of behaviourial biology. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1984.tb00362.x.

 

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