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MOHAMED JULIUS KIBAJA

Lecturer, College Of Natural And Applied Sciences
Education:

• PhD in Ecology (sub-decline: Behavioural Ecology), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Norway (Defended in 1 July 2022). • Master’s Degree in Biodiversity Conservation from University of Dar es Salaam 2012. • Bachelor’s Degree i

Teaching:

  • Ecology and Utilization of Wildlife Populations
  • Animal behaviour I
  • Animal behaviour  II
  • Ecology 1
  • Macro-evolution

Research:

I am very interested in conducting research on behavioral and ecological flexibility of non-human primates and other species across heterogeneous landscapes. Obtaining knowledge of their flexibility is important to understand how species can adapt to changing environments or habitat modifications due to human activities and climate change

Projects:

  1. Systematic surveys of Ashy red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) in unprotected areas of wetern Tanzania: 2019 - 2022.
  2. Conservation of the Endangered Ashy red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) in the Ufipa escarpment, south western Tanzania (2017-2018)
  3. Behavioral Ecology and conservation of Ashy red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) in western Tanzania (2014-2022).
  4. Habitat use by Ashy red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) in the Mbuzi Forest, Rukwa Region, Tanzania (2011-2012).

Publications:

  1. Kibaja, M. J. (2022). Chewing stems of Asparagus buchananii (Asparagaceae) and Aloe sp.(Aloaceae) and spitting them out after extracting fluids may be an evidence of self-medication in common duikers (Sylvicapra grimmia) in the Greater Mahale Ecosystem,Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology, 00, 1–3.
  2. Mekonnen, A., Downs, C., Effiom, E. O., Kibaja, M., Lawes, M. J., Omeja, P., ... & Chapman, C. A. (2021). Can I afford to publish? A dilemma for African scholars. Ecology letters 00:1-5
  3. Werema, C., Nahonyo, C. L. and Kibaja, M. (2017). The role of kopjes in bird species’ conservation within an agricultural matrix west of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania. Scopus 37:8-23.
  4. Kibaja, M. (2014). Diet of the Ashy red colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) and crop-raiding in a forest-farm mosaic, Mbuzi, Rukwa Region, Tanzania. Primate Conservation 28:1-8.

Membership and Registration:

  1. Member-Nature-Tanzania  from September 2022 to present.