Climate-and land use-induced risks to watershed services in the Nyando river basin, Kenya

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 339-356

  Gathenya, Mwangi ^a   Mwangi, Hosea ^a   Coe, Richard ^b   Sang, Joseph ^a  

^a JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

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EID: 82455206063     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001447971100007X     Document Type: Article

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