The list of scientific papers includes work undertaken by Andrew Plumptre in the region prior to his work with WCS.
Plumptre, A.J. (1991) Plant-herbivore dynamics in the Birungas. Ph.D. thesis, University of Bristol.
Plumptre, A.J. (1993) The effects of trampling damage by herbivores on the Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda. African Journal of Ecology 32, 115-129
Plumptre, A.J. (1994) The effects of long-term selective logging on blue duikers in the Budongo Forest Reserve. Gnusletter 13, 15-16.
Plumptre, A.J. & Reynolds, V. (1994) The impact of selective logging on the primate populations in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. Journal of Applied Ecology 31, 631-641
Plumptre, A.J. (1995) The chemical composition of montane plants and its influence on the diet of the large mammalian herbivores in the Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda. Journal of Zoology 235, 323-337
Plumptre, A.J. (1995) The importance of "seed trees" for the natural regeneration of selectively logged tropical forest. Commonwealth Forestry Review 74, 253-258.
Plumptre, A.J. & Harris, S. (1995) Estimating the biomass of large mammalian herbivores in a tropical montane forest: a method of faecal counting that avoids assuming a "steady state" assumption. Journal of Applied Ecology 32, 111-120
Plumptre, A.J. (1996) Modelling the impact of large herbivores on the food supply of the mountain gorilla and implications for management. Biological Conservation 75, 147-155
Plumptre, A.J. (1996) Changes following 60 years of selective timber harvesting in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. Forest Ecology and Management 89, 101-113
Plumptre, A.J. (1996) Two nests of Nahan's Francolin in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 3, 37-38.
Plumptre, A. & Reynolds, V. (1996) Censusing chimpanzees in the Budongo forest. International Journal of Primatology 17, 85-99
Plumptre, A.J. (1997) Rwanda: Volcanoes National Park. Antelope Survey Update: IUCN antelope specialist group. 5, 40-44
Plumptre, A.J. & Bizumuremyi J.B. (1997) Ungulates and Hunting in the Parc National des Volcans. Gnusletter 16, 19-22.
Plumptre, A.J. & Owiunji, I. (1997) Puvel's Illadopsis Illadopsis puveli in Budongo Forest: a new record for East Africa. Scopus 19, 114-116.
Plumptre, A.J. (1996) Gorilla war; the human cost of protecting Rwanda's mountain gorillas. Swara 19, 30-31.
Plumptre, A.J. (1997) Shifting cultivation along the trans-african highway and its impact on the understorey bird comunity in the Ituri Forest, Zaire. Bird Conservation International 7, 317-329
Plumptre, A.J. & Reynolds, V. (1997) Nesting behavior of chimpanzees:implications for censuses. International Journal of Primatology 18, 475-485
Plumptre, A.J., Bizumuremyi, J-B., Uwimana, F. & Ndaruhebeye, J-D. (1997) The effects of the Rwandan civil war on poaching of ungulates in the Parc National des Volcans. Oryx 31, 265-273
Plumptre, A.J. & Owiunji, I. (1997) Puvel's Illadopsis Illadopsis puveli In Budongo Forest: a new record for east Africa. Scopus 19, 114-116.
Dranzoa, C., Sande, E., Owiunji, I. & Plumptre, A.J. (1997) A survey of Nahan's francolin Francolinus nahaniin two tropical rainforests of Uganda. Bulletin of the African Bird Club 4, 90-92
Plumptre, A.J. (1998) Gorillas in torrential downpours. Wildlife Conservation 101, 10.
Owiunji, I. & Plumptre, A.J. ( 1998) Bird communities in logged and unlogged compartments of Budongo Forest, Uganda. Forest Ecology and Management 108, 115-126
Reynolds, V., Plumptre, A.J., Greenham, J. & Harborne, J. (1998) Condensed tannins and sugars in the diet of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. Oecologia 115, 331-336.
Plumptre, A.J., McNeilage, A., Hall, J. (1999) Gorillas, guerillas, bugs and bushmeat: the current status of gorillas and threats to their existence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 28 (suppl), 224.
Dale, S., Mork, K., Solvang, R. & Plumptre, A.J. (2000) Edge effects on the understorey bird community in a logged forest in Uganda. Conservation Biology 14, 265-276.
Plumptre, A.J. (2000) Monitoring mammal populations with line transect techniques in African forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 37, 356-368.
Plumptre, A.J., Hart, T., Vedder, A. & Robinson, J. (2000) Support for Congolese conservationists. Science 288, 617.
Newton-Fisher, N.E., Reynolds, V. & Plumptre, A.J. (2000) Food supply and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) party size in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 21, 613-628.
Babweteera, F., Plumptre, A.J., & Obua, J. (2000) Effect of gap size and age on climber abundance and diversity in Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. African Journal of Ecology 38, 230-237.
Nchanji, A. C. and Plumptre, A.J. (2001) Elephant dung decay rates in Cameroon: problems for census methods. African Journal of Ecology 39, 24-32
McNeilage, A., Plumptre, A.J., Brock-Doyle, A. & Vedder, A. (2001) Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Uganda: gorilla census 1997 Oryx 35, 39-47
Plumptre, A.J. (2001) The effects of habitat change due to selective logging on the fauna of forests in Africa. In: African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation. Eds. W. Weber, LJ.T.. White, A. Vedder, & L. Naughton-treves. pp 463-479. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Vedder, A., Naughton-Treves, L., Plumptre, A.J., Mubalama, L., Rutagarama, E. and Weber, W. (2001) Conflict and Conservation in the African Rain Forest. In: African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation. Eds. W. Weber, LJ.T.. White, A. Vedder, & L. Naughton-treves. pp 557-562. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Plumptre, A.J. and Williamson, E.A. (2001) Conservation-oriented Research in the Virunga Region. pp. 361-389. In: Mountain Gorillas: Three Decades of Research at Karisoke. Eds: M.M. Robbins, P.Sicotte & K.J. Stewart. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Plumptre, A.J. (2001) Use of ArcView GIS in the Africa Program. p.168. In: Conservation Geography: Case Studies in GIS, Computer Mapping and Activism. Ed. C.L. Convis. ESRI Press, California.
Plumptre, A.J. (2001) Establishing Ecological Monitoring Programs: What, where and how to monitor, In: Congo Basin Information Series: Taking action to manage and conserve forest resources in the Congo Basin. Biodiversity Support Programme/CARPE, Washington DC.
Plumptre, A.J. & Ham, R. (2001) Conservation in a region of civil instability: the need to be present and assist. In: Congo Basin Information Series: Taking action to manage and conserve forest resources in the Congo Basin. Biodiversity Support Programme/CARPE, Washington DC.
Plumptre, A.J. & Grieser-Johns, A.D. (2001) Changes in Primate Communities following Logging Disturbance. pp. 71-92 In: The cutting edge: conserving Wildlife in logged Tropical Forests. Eds: R.A. Fimbel, A. Grajal, and J.G. Robinson. Columbia University Press, New York.
Plumptre, A.J., Dranzoa, C. & Owiunji, I. (2001) Bird Communities in Logged and Unlogged African Forests. Lessons from Uganda and Beyond. pp. 213-238 In: The cutting edge: conserving Wildlife in logged Tropical Forests. Eds: R.A. Fimbel, A. Grajal, and J.G. Robinson. Columbia University Press, New York.
Plumptre, A.J., Masozera, M. & Vedder, A. (2001) The impact of civil war on the conservation of protected areas in Rwanda. In: The Trampled Grass. Biodiversity Support Program, Washington DC. French: www.bsponline.org/bsp/publications/africa/155/Rwanda-french.html; English: www.bsponline.org/bsp/publications/africa/145/pdfpRwanda.pdf
Williamson, E. and Plumptre, A.J. (2001) Local hero at Karisoke: Jean-Bosco Bizumuremyi. Dian Fossey Gorilla Journal (Summer 2001) p16.
Brownlow, A.R., Plumptre, A.J., Reynolds, V. and Ward, R. (2001) Sources of variation in the nesting behaviour of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. American Journal of Primatology 55, 49-55.
Plumptre, A.J., McNeilage, A., Hall, J. S. and Williamson, E.A. (2003) The current status of gorillas and threats to their existence at the beginning of a new millennium. pp. 414-431 In: Gorilla Biology: a Multidisciplinary Perspective. Eds. Taylor, A.B. & Goldsmith, M.L. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Plumptre, A.J. (2003) Lessons learned from on-the-ground conservation in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 16, 71-79.
Plumptre, A.J. (2003) Transboundary collaboration between Virunga Park, Rwanda and Queen Elizabeth, Rwenzori and Semuliki Parks, Uganda. Report of Transboundary Meeting 20-21st June 2003. click here for English version; click here for French version.
Laporte, N.T, Lin, T.S, LeMoigne,J, Devers, D., and Honzak, M. (2003) Toward an Integrated Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa. In: Land Change Science: Observation, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth Surface. Ed. Gutman, G. NASA-LCLUC Program.
Laporte, N.T., Honzak, M., Devers, D. and Plumptre, A.J. (2002). Uganda land cover land use change over the past 20 years. Unpublished report for the NASA-INFORMS project. http://www.whrc.org/africa
Chan, J.C.W., Laporte, N.T., and Defries, R. (2003) Texture classification of logging in tropical Africa using machine learning algorithms. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(6):1401-1407.
Dudley, J. P., Ginsberg, J.R., Plumptre, A.J., Hart, J.A., and Campos, L.C. (2002) Effects of war and civil strife on wildlife and wildlife habitats. Conservation Biology 16, 319-329.