Dikko Gafna Dikko Gafna

MA Geogr. Dikko Jeff Gafna

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
    Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie
    Kaiserstr. 12
    76131 Karlsruhe
    Germany

Dikko Gafna

Vegetation survey and analysis, species distribution modeling

Topics

  • Diversity and distribution of medical plants
  • Knowledge about the use of traditional medicine

Curriculum vitae

Since 2016 PhD student at KIT-IfGG. Topic: Diversity and distribution of medical plants in savana drylands, Kenya (Prof. S. Schmidtlein, Prof. J. Obando)
Since 2013 Part time Lecturer at Egerton University, Kenya
2014-2016 Part time lecturer at Mount Kenya University, Kenya.
2010-2014 Master of Arts (Geography), Kenyatta University, Kenya. Master’s thesis: ‘Medicinal Plants Species Diversity and Access to Traditional Herbal medicine among the Samburu People’ (Dr. I.O. Mahiri and Dr. J. G. Mahiri)
2010-2016 Teacher of Geography at Maralal High School, Kenya
2009-2010 Teacher of Geography at Sawagongo High School, Kenya
2005-2009 Bachelor of Education (Arts), Moi University, Kenya
2000-2003 High School, Kanga High School, Kenya

Publications


2023
Gafna, D. J.; Obando, J. A.; Kalwij, J. M.; Dolos, K.; Schmidtlein, S. (2023). Climate change impacts on the availability of anti-malarial plants in Kenya. Climate Change Ecology, 5, Art.-Nr.: 100070. doi:10.1016/j.ecochg.2023.100070Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2021
Gafna, D. J.; Obando, J. A.; Reichelt, M.; Schmidtlein, S.; Dolos, K. (2021). Medicinal service supply by wild plants in Samburu, Kenya: Comparisons among medicinal plant assemblages. Global Ecology and Conservation, 30, e01749. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01749Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
2017
Gafna, D. J.; Dolos, K.; O Mahiri, I.; Mahiri, J. G.; Obando, J. A. (2017). Diversity of medicinal plants and anthropogenic threats in the Samburu Central Sub-County of Kenya. African journal of traditional, complementary and alternative medicines, 14 (5), 72–79. doi:10.21010/ajtcam.v14i5.10Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document