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All PublicationsSitati A**, Yegon MJ**, Masese FO & Graaf W. (2024). Ecological importance of low-order streams to macroinvertebrate community composition in Afromontane headwater streams. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 21: 100330
Hep LU, Masese FO & Teixeira de Mello, F. (2024). Stream ecology and environmental gradients. Hydrobiologia 851, 261–264
Masese FO, Sitati A**, Yegon MJ**, Wanderi EW**, Raburu PO. (2023). Scale of influence and the seasonal variation in macroinvertebrate functional feeding groups in an upland tropical stream. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 48(3): 287-299
Nyamweya, SC, Lawrence TJ, Ajode MZ, Smith S, Achieng AO, Barasa J, Masese FO, …, Gemmell A and Nkalubo W. (2023). Lake Victoria: Overview of Research Needs and the Specific Way Forward. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 49: 102211
Masese FO, Arimoro FO, Dalu T and Gettel GM (2023). Editorial: Freshwater science in Africa. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11:1233932
Achieng AO, Arhonditsis GB, Mandrack NE, Febria CM, Opaa B, Coffey TJ, Irvine K., Masese FO, Ajode ZM, Barasa JE. and Obiero K. 2023. Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: An emerging imperative for governance and research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 20220271
Nyakeya K.***, Masese F.O., Gichana Z.M., Nyamora J.M. ***, Getabu, A., Onchieku J., Odoli, CO. and Nyakwama R. (2023). Cage farming in the environmental mix of Lake Victoria: an analysis of its status, potential environmental and ecological effects and a call for sustainability. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 25(4), 37-52
Masese FO, Wanderi EW**, Achieng’ AO, Nyakeya K, Fouchy K & McClain ME. (2023). Bioassessment of multiple stressors in Afrotropical rivers: evaluating the performance of a macroinvertebrate-based index of biotic integrity, diversity, and regional biotic indices Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11:1015623
Nakangu NF**, Masese FO, Barasa JE, Matolla GK, Riziki JW***, Molongaibalu M (2023). Influence of the changing environment on food composition and condition factor in Labeo victorianus (Boulenger, 1901) in rivers of Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya. Aquaculture and Fisheries, 8:227-238
Ferreira V, Albariño R, Larrañaga A, LeRoy CJ, Masese FO and Moretti MS. (2022). Ecosystem services provided by small streams – an overview. Hydrobiologia. 850, 2501–2535
Dr. Frank Masese has over 15 years of research experience on freshwater ecosystems in East Africa. Straddling the terrestrial-aquatic domain, his research seeks to understand how landscape variables and human activities shape aquatic ecosystem structure and functioning with a focus on nutrient cycling, organic matter processing, community composition, and trophic dynamics. His research profile also includes development of biological indices for assessing and monitoring the ecological condition of streams and rivers. Currently, he is leading a team of scientists to develop a...
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