Application of systematic monitoring and mapping techniques: Assessing land restoration potential in semi-arid lands of Kenya

Geoderma

Volumn 327, Issue , 2018, Pages 107-118

  Winowiecki, Leigh Ann ^a   Vågen, Tor Gunnar ^a   Kinnaird, Margaret F ^b   O'Brien, Timothy G ^c  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)   (Kenya)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GRASS; HERB; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND RECLAMATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; MONITORING SYSTEM; NATURAL RESOURCE; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPSOIL; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE;

KENYA; LAIKIPIA;

EID: 85046721481     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.04.017     Document Type: Article

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