The successful candidate will focus on reconstructing past vegetation structure and cover changes in the Central highlands, Kenya and document the significance of varied socio-economics practices on shaping the vegetation cover and composition in the highland forests. The focus will be the last 2000 years including colonial-and post-colonial periods in Aberdare ranges. They will collect sediment cores in close proximity or/and within the forests and where available, known past settlements. They will analyze plants micro-fossils (pollen, phytoliths, charcoal and spores) to reconstruct the vegetation cover and analyze historical ecology datasets (Mapping, Modelling and oral literature).
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