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Dr Charles M. Warui

Dr Charles M. Warui

senior lecturer : School of Pure Applied and Health Sciences
cwarui@mut.ac.ke

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Biography

Dr. Charles M Warui is a senior lecturer at Department of Physical & Biological Sciences in the School of Pure Applied and Health Sciences at Murang’a University of Technology. He is an Ecologist/Zoologist with broad teaching & research experience in Ecology, Conservation Biology, Taxonomy, Entomology, Landuse studies as well as Environmental modelling. His research focuses on Bio-monitoring and use of invertebrates particularly arachnids and terrestrial mollusks to understand the consequences of human-mediated global change as well as subsequent ways to restore and maintain sound ecosystems health. He has won and managed several research grants and mainly covering research in East African Savannah and forest ecosystems. Warui is currently collaborating with University of Bologna (ITALY) on Savannah Restoration Programme in Kenya and recently concluded a project on forest restoration with Nottingham Trent University (UK). He is currently the University Examinations Officer and previously served as a Dean School of Pure & Applied Sciences for at Mount Kenya University and as a senior Research Scientist at Zoology Department of National Museums of Kenya. He was an external examiner for Zoological Sciences at both Kenyatta University (2017-2022) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture (2019-2023). He has supervised, mentored and examined several postgraduate students.

Education

  • 2005: Ph. D in Ecology/Entomology - Rhodes University, South Africa
  • 1998: MSc. in Biology of Conservation - University of Nairobi, Kenya
  • 1994: B.Ed. Science Hons (Botany/Zoology/Education), Egerton University, Njoro Kenya

Publications

  1. Mammola S, Malumbres-Olarte J, Arabesky V, …. Warui C M, Wiśniewski K, Zamani A, Chuang A, Scott C. (2022). The global spread of misinformation on spiders. Current Biology 32(16):R871-R873. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.026. PMID: 35998593.
  2. Mammola, S., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Arabesky, V. Warui C.M. et al.2022 An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites. Sci Data 9, 109 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6
  3. Risper, H.A., M. Warui & P. Njoroge (2022). Nesting success of Sharpe’s Longclaw (Macronyx sharpei Jackson, 1904) around the grasslands of lake Ol’bolossat Nyandarua, Kenya. Journal of Threatened Taxa 14(1): 20461–20468. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.6762.14.1.20461-20468 https://www.threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/6762/8286
  4. Tinega, J.N. and Warui, C.M. (2022), “Effect of carbonization on the surface and influence on heavy metal removal by water hyacinth stem-based carbon”, Management of Environmental Quality, 33(3):573-585. DOI:1108/MEQ-10-2020-0231. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/MEQ-10-2020-0231/full/html
  5. George N. Gathuku, David O. Chiawo, Charles M. Warui, Cecilia M. Gichuki, Innocent O. Ngare (2021).The effect of habitat type on population distribution and abundance of Rothschild’s Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) in Ruma National Park and Mwea National Reserve in Kenya. bioRxiv 2021.04.30.442177; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.30.442177
  6. Okwany, Z. A., Githui, E. K., Ngaira, J.M., Warui, C. M., Aman, R. A. & Mutura K. S. (2018). Phylogeographic relationships of Freshwater Crabs, Potamonautes Macleay, 1838, in Central Kenya in relation to similar species in Southern Africa highlands (Decapoda, Potamonautidae). Biodivesrsity Journal. 9(4): 375-384. DOI: 31396/Biodiv.Jour.2018.9.4.375.384
  7. Keesing, F, Ostfeld, R.S., Okanga, S., Huckett, S., Bayles, B.R., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Fredericks, L.P., Hedlund, T., Kowal, V., Tallis, H., Warui, C.M., Wood, S.A, and Allan, B.F. 2018. Consequences of integrating livestock and wildlife in an African savanna. Nature Sustainability. 1:566-573 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0149-2
  8. Allan, B.F., Tallis, H., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Huckett, S., Kowal, G., Musengezi, J., Okanga. S. Ostfeld, R.S., Schieltz, J., Warui, C. M., Wood, S.A. & Keesing, F. (2017). Can Integrating wildlife and livestock to enhance the delivery of ecosystem services in central Kenya? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 15(6), 328-335. DOI: 1002/fee.1501
  9. Abonyo, E. A., N. K. Maniania, M. Warui, E. D. Kokwaro, T. M. Palmer, D. F. Doak, and A. K. Brody. 2016: Effects of entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae on non-target ants associated with Odontotermes spp. (Isoptera: Termitidae) termite mounds in Kenya. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 36:128-134. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758416000114
  10. Waiganjo, B.W, Githae, E.W., Warui, C.M & Opiyo, E.A. 2015: Ethnobotanical and vegetation survey of Kiango’mbe and Kianjiru Hill Forests In Embu County, Kenya. International Journal of Medicinal Plants 4 (8) 157-167. https://repository.nrf.go.ke/handle/123456789/568
  11. Beryl A. Bwong, Charles M Warui, Charles N. Lange, Daniel Karanja, Dominic Victor Wasonga, Dorothy Nyingi, Edward njagi, Esther Kioko, Helida Oyieke, Jackson M. Muriuki, James J. Odanga, James Wachira, Joash Nyamache, Joseph Gathua, Joseph R. Mugambi, Karl-Heiz Lampe, Mary Gikungu, Michael Mungai, Morris Mutua, Muchane Muchai, Nickson E. Otieno, Nicodemus Nalianya, Onesmus Kioko, Patrick Gichuki, Patrick Kinyatta Malonza, Reuben Mwakodi, Richard Bagine, Ronald Mulwa, Sigfrid Ingrisch, Titus Imboma & Wanja Kinuthia. Type Catalogue NMK. Bonn Zoological Bulletin 60: 8. http://www.zoologicalbulletin.de/BzB_Volumes/BzM_60/BzM_60.pdf
  12. Warui, C.M, J.M. Muriuki., H. Oyieke., S. Ingrisch., C.N. Lange., M. Muchai & K.-H. Lampe. African Spider (Araneae) Type specimens in the collection of National museums of Kenya. Bonn Zoological Bulletin Supplementum 60: 20. ISBN-13: 978-3-925382-64-2; ISSN: 0302-671X http://www.zoologicalbulletin.de/BzB_Volumes/BzM_60/BzM_60.pdf https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53610236#page/9/mode/1up
  13. Ongare D., Macharia A., Mwakaje, A, Muchane, M., Warui C.M., Mugoya, C., Masiga, C., Nikundiwe, A., Muiti, A & Wakibara, J. 2013: Environmental communication: A review of Information Sources and communication channels for Enhanced Community-Based natural resource management in the greater Mara Region of Kenya. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 7:65-74. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0973408213495608
  14. Ximena J. N. ,Warui C.M & Jackson R. 2012. Widespread reliance on olfactory sex and species identification by lyssomanine and spartaeine jumping spiders. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: 107:664–677. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01965.x
  15. Huber Bernhard A. & Warui, Charles M. 2012: East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). European journal of taxonomy, 29: 1–44. [S.l.], n. 29, nov. 2012. ISSN 2118-9773. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.2
  16. Reddick, K., Warui C. M. & Wharton, B. 2010: A new species of Tarabulida (Solifugae: Daesiidae) from Kenya, with the first complete description of a male of the genus. Journal of Arachnology 38: 495-503. https://doi.org/10.1636/Ha10-19.1
  17. Warui, C. M., Villet, M. H., Young, T. P., & Jocqué, R (2005). Influence of grazing by large mammals on the spider community of a Kenyan savanna. Journal of Arachnology 33: 269-279. DOI: 1636/CT05-43.1 http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1636/CT05-43.1,
  18. Seddon, M., P. Tattersfied., D. G. Herbert., B. Rowson, C. Lange, Ngereza., C.M. Warui and J. A. Allen (2005). Diversity of African forest mollusc faunas: what we have learned since Solem (1984). Records of the Western Australian museum Supplement 68: 103-113. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.68.2005.103-113 https://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/SuppWAMuseum_2005_68_103to113_SEDDONetal.pdf
  19. Warui, C. M., Villet, M. H., & Young, T. P. Spiders (Araneae) from black cotton soils of a highland savanna in Laikipia, central Kenya. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 1: 13-24. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228492301_Spiders_Arachnida_Araneae_from_black_cotton_soil_habitats_of_a_highland_savanna_biome_in_Laikipia_central_Kenya
  20. Warui, C. M. & Jocque, R. (2002). The first Gallieniellidae (Araneae) from East Africa. Journal of Arachnology 30: 307-315. https://doi.org/10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0307:TFGAFE]2.0.CO;2
  21. Warui, C. M., Tattersfield P. & Seddon, M. B. (2001). Annotated Checklist of terrestrial molluscs of terrestrial molluscs of Mount Kenya, Kenya. Journal of Conchology, 37: 291-300. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293510322_Annotated_checklist_of_the_non-marine_molluscs_of_Mount_Kenya_Kenya
  22. Tattersfield, C. M. Warui, M. B. Seddon & J. W. Kiringe (2001). Land-snail faunas of afromontane forests of Mount Kenya, Kenya: ecology, diversity and distribution patterns. Journal of Biogeography 28: 843-861. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2001.00606.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1365-2699.2001.00606.x

BOOK CHAPTER

  1.  Warui, C. M., Ruthiiri, J. M & Kang’ethe, S.N. 2007: The Black Bugs, Scotinophara Spp. (Hemiptera:
    Pentatomidae), in Kenya, East Africa. Pp 573-579. In Rice Black bugs, Taxonomy, Ecology and
    Management of Invasive Species. (Joshi, R. C., Barrion, A. T & Sebastian, S. L. Eds). Philipine Rice
    Research Insitute Department of Agriculture. ISBN 978-971-9081-39-5
    Online: https://jameslitsinger.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rice-black-bug-
    book.pdf SB608.R5 633.18’9754 2007 P073000356; ISBN 978-971-9081-39-5