David N. M. Mbora
Professor
Biology and Environmental Science
Whittier College
United States of America
Biography
Professor David Mbora is an ecologist, and conservation biologist, interested in understanding how the preeminent threats to biodiversity, habitat loss and fragmentation, affect animals. He investigates questions on the effects of habitat change on population genetics, parasites and diseases, behavioral ecology, and population abundance and distribution. Taken together, the results of his work indicate that some animals are more vulnerable to extinction in fragmented landscapes. Therefore, identifying such vulnerable species, and the characteristics that make them vulnerable, is vital for conservation and promotes ecological and evolutionary theory.
Research Interest
animal behavior, conservation biology, ecology and evolution, and environmental science.
Publications
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Mbora, D. N. M., and M. A. McPeek, 2009. "Host Density and Human Activities Mediate Increased Parasite Prevalence and Richness in Primates Threatened by Habitat Loss and Fragmentation." Journal of Animal Ecology, 78, 210-218.
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Mbora, D. N. M. and E. Munene, 2006. "Gastrointestinal Parasites of Critically Endangered Primates Endemic to Tana River Kenya; the Tana River Red Colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus) and the Crested Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus)." Journal of Parasitology, 92:928-932.
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Mbora, D. N. M. and M. A. McPeek, 2010. "Endangered Species in Small Habitat Patches Can Possess High Genetic Diversity: the Case of the Tana River Red Colobus and Mangabey." Conservation Genetics, 11:1725 - 1735.
