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Early-career researchers

Ongoing PhD theses

  • Amputu, Vistorina: Leveraging drone technology to map and understand grazing-induced rangeland degradation in a southern African dryland system. (PhD thesis, University of Tübingen)
  • Hamunyela, Ndamonenghenda: Relative importance of sources of plant recruitment and the role of plant-to-plant interactions as early indicators of a desertification tipping point. (PhD thesis, University of Namibia)
  • Männer, Florian: Rangeland degradation dynamics analyses in a Namibian savannah ecosystem using remote and proximal sensing of forage supply and vegetation patterns. (PhD thesis, University of Bonn)
  • Moyo, Sihlangene Nali: Investigating the use of proactive management strategies in the Greater Waterberg Landscape farms (PhD thesis, Namibia University of Science and Technology)
  • Munyebvu-Chambara, Faith: Utilising herbaceous plant population patterns as indicators of desertification tipping points: An experimental and space-for-time approach. (PhD thesis, University of Namibia)
  • Schwarz, Lisa-Maricia: Comparative Analysis of Desertification Tipping Points in Namibian Rangelands with Methods of Functional Plant Ecology. (PhD thesis, University of Potsdam and University of Bonn)
  • Zimmer, Katrin: Indicators of soil degradation in savanna rangelands, Namibia. (PhD thesis, University of Bonn)

Completed MSc theses

  • Lotz, Julian Patrick: Land degradation risk assessment in a dryland savannah. (MSc thesis, 2023, University of Tübingen)
  • Schröter, Helen: The effects of drought and grazing on ANPP and RUE in a Namibian rangeland with two different land-use histories being further and closer to a DTP. (MSc thesis, 2023, University of Potsdam)
  • Vogel, Hannes: Property Regimes of Pastoralist Systems. (MSc thesis, 2023, UFZ & Stockholm University)
  • Bickel, Lena: Rangeland desertification and land use changes on commercial land in Namibia’s Waterberg Region over the past 60 years. (MSc thesis, 2022, ISOE & Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
  • Gurny, Melissa: Bush Fodder Production on commercial Farms in the Waterberg Region, Namibia: Challenges and Potentials (MSc thesis, 2022, ISOE & Georg-August University of Göttingen)
  • Mustelin, Katinka: Livelihood security in the face of looming desertification: exploring long-term social-ecological dynamics using an agent-based model. (MSc thesis, 2022, UFZ & Leuphana University Lüneburg)
  • Bekele, Matiwos: Effects of grazing intensity on semi-arid grassland plant community composition over time. (MSc thesis, 2021, University of Bonn)
  • Hammer, Leonard: Analyzing mechanisms of poverty trap formation using agent-based modelling. (MSc thesis, 2020, UFZ & Philipps-University Marburg)

Completed BSc and Honours theses

  • Ndjimba, J.T.: Assessing Woody Vegetation Dynamics along Degradation Gradients in Communal Areas of the Greater Waterberg Landscape Conservation Area, Central Namibia. (Mini thesis for Honours degree, 2022, Namibia University of Science and Technology)
  • Namupolo, H.N.: Comparison of Woody Vegetation Dynamics in Cleared and Non-cleared Commercial Farms in the Greater Waterberg Landscape, Central Namibia. (Mini thesis for Honours degree, 2022, Namibia University of Science and Technology)
  • Jaoo, Maria D.: Title: Assessing rangeland conditions in the communal area of the Greater Waterberg Landscape conservation area, using forb species dynamics as a possible indicator of degradation. (Mini thesis for Honours degree, 2022, University of Namibia)
  • Barth, Lena: Land degradation assessment using Residual Trend Analysis (RESTREND) of Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), soil moisture and rainfall in Greater Waterberg Landscape, Namibia from 2001 to 2020. (BSc thesis, 2022, University of Tübingen)
  • Ndapulamo, Ndeshihafela W.: Seasonal variation in foraging behaviour of cattle in the communal area of the Greater Waterberg Landscape. (BSc research report, 2022, University of Namibia)
  • Nashini, Martha E.: Spatial and temporal variation in rangeland condition in the communal areas of the Greater Waterberg Landscape, central Namibia. (BSc research report, 2022, University of Namibia)
  • Nenkete, Simon: The role of selected woody species on seedling recruitment and survival in the communal area of the Greater Waterberg Landscape. (BSc research report, 2022, University of Namibia)
  • Enondubo, Sarafia L.: An analysis of seasonal variations in the nutritional content of selected common palatable grasses in the Greater Waterberg Communal area. (BSc research report, 2021, University of Namibia)
  • Jaoo, Maria D.: Assessing rangeland conditions in the communal area of the Greater Waterberg Landscape, using forb species dynamics as a possible indicator of degradation. (BSc research report, 2021, University of Namibia)