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Femke Broekhuis is an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at Wageningen University & Research. Her research focuses on large carnivore behavior, human-wildlife interactions, and conservation strategies in African ecosystems. She specializes in understanding predator-prey dynamics, spatial ecology, and the impacts of human activities on wildlife populations.
Key projects include studying cheetah activity patterns in livestock-dominated landscapes, African wild dog conservation in the Maasai Mara, and lion population monitoring in Uganda. She has co-supervised multiple PhD candidates exploring topics like brown hyena distribution, collective wildlife behavior under environmental stressors, and scavenger ecology.
Her work integrates ecological modeling, citizen science, and traditional field techniques to address conservation challenges. She collaborates internationally on datasets like the Landscape Dynamics (landDX) project and has contributed to frameworks for carnivore population assessments in Kenya.
- Research interests: Large carnivores (cheetahs, lions, African wild dogs), human-carnivore coexistence, spatial ecology.
- Notable projects: Landscapes of coexistence (cheetah behavior), Uganda lion monitoring, Kenya carnivore occupancy dynamics.
- Collaborations: Partnerships with organizations including Cheetah Conservation Botswana and the University of Oxford.
