The effects of land use and land cover (LULC) on groundwater recharge and surface runoff and how these are affected by LULC changes are of interest for sustainable water resources management. However, there is limited quantitative evidence on how changes to LULC in semi-arid tropical and subtropi...
Owuor, Steven O.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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Guzha, Alphonce Chenjerayi
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Pelster, David E.
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Díaz Pinés, Eugenio
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Breuer, Lutz
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[Groundwater recharge rates and surface runoff response to land use and land cover changes in semi-arid environments]
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Groundwater recharge rates and surface runoff response to land use and land cover changes in semi-arid environments
Few field studies examine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from African agricultural systems resulting in high uncertainty for national inventories. We provide here the most comprehensive study in Africa to date, examining annual CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions from 59 plots, across different vegetation...
Pelster, David E.
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Mango, Joash
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Saiz, G.
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Díaz Pinés, Eugenio
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Baldi, G.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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[Smallholder African farms in western Kenya have limited greenhouse gas fluxes]
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Smallholder African farms in western Kenya have limited greenhouse gas fluxes
Small-scale spatial variability in soil carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes poses serious challenges to the experimental design, and number of gas samples needed to provide a reliable estimate of flux usually exceeds analytical capacities. We pooled gas samples –analogously to soi...
Arias-Navarro, Cristina
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Díaz Pinés, Eugenio
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Kiese, Ralf
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Stern, D.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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[Gas pooling: a sampling technique to overcome spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide fluxes]
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Gas pooling: a sampling technique to overcome spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide fluxes
Increasing demand for food and fibre by the growing human population is driving significant land use (LU) change from forest into intensively managed land systems in tropical areas. But empirical evidence on the extent to which such changes affect the soil-atmosphere exchange of trace gases is st...
Arias-Navarro, Cristina
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Díaz Pinés, Eugenio
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Zuazo, Pablo
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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[Quantifying the contribution of land use to N2O, NO and CO2 fluxes in a montane forest ecosystem of Kenya]
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Quantifying the contribution of land use to N2O, NO and CO2 fluxes in a montane forest ecosystem of Kenya