Academic interests
Agroforestry landscape and protected area management
Population dynamics / multi-taxa inventories
South-north collaboration / capacity building
Geographical focus
West & Central Africa
Former projects
- Innovaland - Integrated processes to support innovative, sustainable land-use concepts in social-ecological systems (BMBF, 2018-2019)
- Biodiversity and socio-economy in agroforestry landscapes in Cameroon (Heinrich-Böll Foundation, 2013-2017)
Publications
Kupsch D (2020). Ecological and socio-economic effects of industrial oil palm plantations in Southwest Cameroon. PhD thesis. University of Göttingen, Germany. p199. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-139A-8
Düker S, Kupsch D, Bobo KS, Heymann E & Waltert M (2020). Congo Grey Parrot Psittacus erithacus densities in oil palm plantation, agroforestry mosaic and protected forest in Southwest Cameroon. Bird Conservation International 30: 156-167 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270919000194
Kupsch D, Vendras E, Ocampo-Ariza C, Batáry P, Motombi FN, Bobo KS & Waltert M (2019). High critical forest habitat thresholds of native bird communities in Afrotropical agroforestry landscapes. Biological Conservation 230:20-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.12.001
Heymann EW, Culot L, Knogge C, Smith AC, Herrera ERT, Müller, Stojan-Dolar M, Ferrer YL, Kubisch P, Kupsch D, Slana D, Koopmann ML, Ziegenhagen B, Bialozyt R, Mengel C, Hambuckers J & Heer K (2019). Small Neotropical primates promote the natural regeneration of anthropogenically disturbed areas. Scientific Reports 9: 10356. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46683-x
Ocampo-Ariza C, Kupsch D, Motombi FN, Bobo KS, Kreft H & Waltert M (2019). Extinction thresholds and negative responses of Afrotropical ant-following birds to forest cover loss in oil palm and agroforestry landscapes. Basic and Applied Ecology 39: 26-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2019.06.008
Spey I-K, Kupsch D, Bobo KS, Waltert M & Schwarze S (2019). The Effects of Road Access on Income Generation. Evidence from an integrated conservation and development project in Cameroon. Sustainability 11:3368. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123368
Kupsch D, Waltert M & Heymann EW (2014). Forest type affects foraging of saddleback tamarins, Saguinus nigrifrons. Primates 55:403-413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-014-0416-4