Peer Reviewed Publications
In review
C. Riginos. Climate alters the landscape of fear. Ecology Letters.
Porensky, L.M., S.E. Wittman, C. Riginos, and T.P. Young. Herbivory and drought interact to enhance diversity and spatial patterning in a savanna understory. Oecologia.
Donihue, C.M., L.M. Porensky, J. Foufopoulos, C. Riginos and R.M. Pringle. Glade cascades: indirect legacy effects of pastoralism enhance the abundance and spatial structuring of arboreal fauna. Ecology.
In press
C. Riginos, L.M. Porensky, K.E. Veblen, W.O. Odadi, R.L. Sensenig, D. Kimuyu, F. Keesing, M.L. Wilkerson, and T.P. Young. Lessons on the relationship between pastoralism and biodiversity from the Kenya Long-term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE). Pastoralism.
Herrick, J.E., S. Andrews, G. Baldi, B.T. Bestelmeyer, J. Brown, J. Davies, M. Duniway, K.M. Havstad, D. Peters, J. Quinton, C. Riginos, P. Shaver, D. Steinaker, and S. Twomlow. Revolutionary land use change in the 21st century: is rangeland science relevant to ‘marginal lands’? Rangeland Ecology and Management.
2011
Riginos, C., J.E. Herrick, S.R. Sundaresan, C. Farley, and J. Belnap. 2011. A simple, graphical approach to quantitative monitoring of rangelands. Rangelands 133:6-13.
Augustine, D.J., K.E. Veblen, J.R. Goheen, C. Riginos, and T.P. Young. 2011. Pathways for positive cattle-wildlife interactions in semi-arid rangelands. In Conserving Wildlife in African Landscapes: Kenya’s Ewaso Ecosystem (N.J. Georgiadis, ed.). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 632:55-72.
Sundaresan, S.R., C. Riginos, and E.S. Abelson. 2011. Management and analysis of camera trap data: alternative approaches (response to Harris et al. 2010). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. April 2011.
2010
Riginos, C. and J.H. Herrick. 2010. Monitoring Rangeland Health: A Guide for Pastoralist Communities and Other Land Managers in Eastern Africa, Version II. Nairobi, Kenya: ELMT-USAID/East Africa.
Treydte, A.C., C. Riginos, and F. Jeltsch. 2010. Enhanced use of beneath-canopy vegetation by grazing ungulates in African savannahs. Journal of Arid Environments 74: 1597-1603.
Sundaresan, S., and C. Riginos. 2010. Lessons learned from biodiversity conservation in the private lands of Laikipia, Kenya. Great Plains Research 20: 2-10.
Goheen, J.R., T. M. Palmer, F. Keesing, C. Riginos, and T.P. Young. 2010. Large herbivores facilitate savanna tree establishment via diverse and indirect pathways. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 372-382.
2009
Riginos, C., J.B. Grace, D.J. Augustine, and T.P. Young. 2009. Local versus landscape-scale effects of savanna trees on grasses. Journal of Ecology, 97: 1337-1345.
Riginos, C. 2009. Grass competition suppresses savanna tree growth across multiple demographic stages. Ecology 90: 335-340.
Riginos, C., J.H. Herrick, J. Belnap, S.R. Sundaresan, J.S. Worden, and M.F. Kinnaird. 2009. Monitoring Rangeland Health: A Guide for Facilitators and Pastoralist Communities, Version I. Nairobi, Kenya: ELMT-USAID/East Africa.
2008
Riginos, C., and J.B. Grace. 2008. Tree density, wild ungulate habitat use and the herbaceous community in a Kenyan savanna: Top-down versus bottom-up effects. Ecology 89: 2228-2238.
Okello, B.D., T.P. Young, C. Riginos, D. Kelly and T. O’Connor. 2008. Short-term survival and long-term mortality of Acacia drepanolobium after a controlled burn. African Journal of Ecology 46:395-401.
2007
Riginos, C., M.S. Heschel, and J. Schmitt. 2007. Maternal effects of drought stress and inbreeding in Impatiens capensis (Balsaminaceae). American Journal of Botany 94: 1984-1991.
Riginos, C. and T.P. Young. 2007. Positive and negative effects of grasses and wild and domestic herbivores on Acacia saplings in an East African savanna. Oecologia 153: 985-995.
2003-05
Riginos, C., S.J. Milton, and T. Wiegand. 2005. Context-dependent interactions between adult shrubs and seedlings in a semi-arid shrubland. Journal of Vegetation Science 16: 331-340.
Heschel, M.S. and C. Riginos. 2005. Mechanisms of selection for drought stress tolerance and avoidance in Impatiens capensis (Balsaminaceae). American Journal of Botany 92: 37-44.
Riginos, C. and M.T. Hoffman. 2003. Changes in population biology of two succulent shrubs along a grazing gradient. Journal of Applied Ecology 40: 615-625.