Sitali Mbeha - PhD Candidate

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Current Project(s)

I am conducting my doctoral research within the DFG funded collaborative research centre Future Rural Africa, project A01: Future Carbon Storage. My work builds on prior research from phases I and II of project A01, and focuses on understanding the carbon storage potential of southern African rangelands, as well as the drivers and preconditions that shape it.

My fieldwork is based in Namibia (Zambezi Region) and Zambia (Western Province), two regions within the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.

 

 

Research Interests

• Carbon dynamics in rangeland systems
• Ecosystem services and trade-offs
• Integrated crop-livestock systems
• Human-environment interactions
• Wildlife-livestock interactions
• GIS and land-use patterns

 

 

Education and Experience

Since 2026 Doctoral candidate at University of Potsdam, Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany

2022 - 2025 MSc in Wildlife Management and Ecotourism at University of Namibia

2022 - 2024 Field assistant at A01 Future Rural Africa

2017 - 2020 BSc in Wildlife Management and Ecotourism at University of Namibia

 

 

Publications

Mbeha, S., Rutina, L., & Lukubwe, M. (2025). Evaluating Community-Based Methods for Monitoring and Recording Human–Wildlife Conflicts in Namibia: Towards Emergent Approaches? African Journal of Wildlife Research, 55(1). https://doi.org/10.3957/056.055.0373

Mbeha, S. L., & Rutina, L. P. (2022). Spatio-temporal functional diversity of large herbivores in Mudumu National Park, northeastern Namibia. Namibian Journal of Environment, 6, A-77. https://doi.org/10.64640/xjga5458