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Relationship between riparian vegetation cover and macroinvertebrate assemblages in Kuywa River, Kenya
(2017-02-01)
The Kuywa River watershed has undergone riparian vegetation planting since 2006 in order to improve the
river health. The planted riparian buffer zone vegetation was to improve channel stability, promote biodiversity,
and ...
Determinants of Sweet Potatoes (Ipomoea batatas L) Profitability in Rachuonyo South District, Kenya
(ACR, 2014-04-04)
Sweet potato is a high yielding crop with a higher food value than many staple food crops. Its
production in Kenya is concentrated in Rachuonyo South district. To promote growth of the sweet potato
subsector and to reduce ...
Influence of Water Availability on Food Crop Production in Semi-Arid Areas in Kibwezi District, Makueni County, Kenya
(Arts Humanit, 2015)
Ecosystems provide essential services like water regulation and other processes which sustain and fulfill human life by directly or indirectly supporting humans‟ survival and quality of life. However, there is insufficient ...
Relationship Between Water Quality Indicators And Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages In The Kuywa River, Kenya
(2017)
The Kuywa River watershed has undergone riparian vegetation planting since 2006 in order to improve the river health. The planted riparian buffer zone vegetation was to improve channel stability, promote biodiversity, and ...
Paleoclimatic and paleoecological reconstruction of early Miocene terrestrial equatorial deposits, Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya
(American Geophysical Union, 2012)
Biological responses to climatic shifts are often studied to inform us on future anthropogenic-driven climate change. However, few of these climatic shifts occur over time scales appropriate to modern change and few occur ...
Late Pleistocene artefacts and fauna from Rusinga and Mfangano islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2012)
Surveys and excavations in 2009 2011 recovered fossil and artefact assemblages
from late Pleistocene sediments on Rusinga and Mfangano islands (Lake Victoria,
Kenya). Radiometric age estimates suggest that the Rusinga ...
Palaeoclimate of Ondiri Swamp, Kikuyu, Kenya, from 1.350 to 1.810 AD
(CRC Press, 2010)
Gully Rehabilitation Trusts: Fighting soil erosion through community participation in western Kenya
(Pergamon, 2018)
Soil erosion is one of many interlinked factors contributing to land degradation, which has been the focus of recent international agreements, including the Bonn Challenge and the Kigali Declaration on Forest Landscape ...
Land Cover Change and Its Socio-Economic Impact on the Residents of the Mara River, Kenya
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2019)
Anthropogenic activities are increasingly catalyzing natural climatic factors that drive land cover change at different spatial scales. Available land cover data of the Mara River basin however give a broader picture of ...
Effects of water physico-chemical parameters on tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) growth in earthen ponds in Teso North Sub-County, Busia County
(BioMed Central, 2017)
Small-scale fish farmers in developing countries are faced with challenges owing to their limited information on aquaculture management. Nile tilapia farmers in Teso North Sub-County recorded lower yields than expected in ...