David Kenfack
CTFS–SIGEO Africa Program Coordinator
1300 Centre Street
Boston, MA 02131
Phone: 617.496.3504
Fax: 617.384.6596
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Education
PhD, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Doctorat 3e Cycle, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon
Maitrise ès-Science, University of Yaoundé I
Research Interests
My primary interest is plant systematics. I use a combination of morphological, molecular, ecological, and spatial data to explore species limits in plant groups with challenging taxonomy and to understand their evolutionary history and their biogeography. I am also interested in understanding ecological processes that explain tropical forest dynamics through long-term ecological monitoring forest plot in Africa.
Recent Publications
- Kenfack, D. 2011. Carapa vasquezii sp. nov. (Meliaceae) from western Amazonia. Brittonia: 63: 7 – 10.
- Kenfack, D. and A. Peréz. 2011. Two new species of Carapa (Meliaceae) from Western Ecuador. Systematic Botany 36: 124 – 128.
- Kenfack, D. 2011. Resurrection in Carapa (Meliaceae): a reassessment of morphological variation and species boundaries using multivariate methods in a phylogenetic context. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 186 – 221.
- Weber, N., P. Birnbaum, P.-M. Forget, M. Gueye, and D. Kenfack. 2010. L’huile de carapa (Carapa spp., Meliaceae) en Afrique de l’Ouest : utilisations et implications dans la conservation des peuplements naturels. Fruits 65: 343 – 354.
- DeWalt, S.J., S.A. Schnitzer, J. Chave, F. Bongers, R.J. Burnham, Z. Cai, G. Chuyong, D.B. Clark, C.E.N. Ewango, J. J. Gerwing, E. Gortaire, T. Hart, D. Kenfack, M.J. Macía, J.-R. Makana, G. Ibarra-Manríquez, M. Martínez-Ramos, M. Sainge, H.C. Muller-Landau, M.P.E. Parren, N. Parthasarathy, D.R. Pérez-Salicrup, F.E. Putz, H. Romero-Saltos, and D. Thomas. 2010. Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan-tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area. Biotropica 42: 309 – 317.
- Forget, P-M., O. Poncy, R.S. Thomas, D.S. Hammond, and D. Kenfack. 2009. A cryptic new species of Carapa Aublet (Meliaceae) from Central Guyana. Brittonia 64: 366 – 374.
- Kenfack, D., amd C.W. Dick. 2009. Isolation and characterization of 15 polymorphic microsatellite loci in Tetragastris panamensis (Burseraceae), a widespread neotropical forest tree. Conservation Genetic Resources 1: 385 – 387.
- Morlon, H., G.B. Chuyong, R. Condit, S. Hubell, D. Kenfack, D.W. Thomas, R. Valencia, and J. Green. 2008. A general framework for the distance-decay of similarity in ecological communities. Ecology Letters 11: 904 – 917.
- Sonké, B., D. Neuba, D. Kenfack, and P. De Block. 2007. An extraordinary new rheophyte in the genus Leptactina (Rubiaceae, Pavetteae) from Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 109 – 113.
- Kenfack, D., D.W. Thomas, G.B. Chuyong, and R. Condit. 2007. Rarity and abundance in a diverse African forest. Biodiversity Conservation 16: 2045 – 2074.