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Occurrence of nodulation in leguminous trees in Kenya
(Journal of Tropical Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2005)
Exploitation of the potential for nitrogen fixing trees, soil improvement and multipurpose use, requires a good knowledge of their nodulation capabilities and agrosilvicultural manipulation. Nitrogen Fixation in some ...
Socioeconomic factors influencing dependence of households on non-timber forest products in South Nandi Forest, Kenya
(Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, 2018)
Forests are some of the key natural assets that provide a wide range of goods and services to forest adjacent communities. However, there is inadequate information on the factors that influence community members’ level of ...
A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes
(WILEY, 2017)
Agricultural intensification is a leading cause of global biodiversity loss, which can
reduce the provisioning of ecosystem services in managed ecosystems. Organic
farming and plant diversification are farm management ...
Stand characteristics and water use at two elevations in a sub-tropical evergreen forest in southern China
(Elsevier, 2014)
The humid evergreen monsoon forests in China and other parts of Asia contribute significantly to the global and regional atmospheric circulation and hydrological cycle. The forests are, however, changing in structure due ...
Sensitivity of peatland herbaceous vegetation to vapor pressure deficit influences net ecosystem CO2 exchange
(Society of Wetland Scientists, 2012)
Mountain peatlands in the temperate regions represent a small proportion of the global peatland resource, but play a unique, although less recognized role in the regional water and biogeochemical cycles. We conducted leaf ...
Environmental controls on growing-season sap flow density of Quercus serrata Thunb in a temperate deciduous forest of Korea
(Ecological Society of Korea, 2012)
Sap flux density (SFD) measurements were used, in combination with morphological characteristics of trees and forest structure, to calculate whole-tree transpiration, stand transpiration (St) and mean canopy stomatal ...
Competition in Kenyan soils between Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar phaseoli strain Kim5 and R. tropici strain CIAT899 using the gusA marker gene
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998-07)
The contribution of appropriate inoculum strains to more efficient nitrogen fixation by legumes has been difficult to assess due to the laborious nature of the assays involved in assessing establishment of inoculum strains ...
Supplement understanding of the relative importance of biophysical factors in determination of photosynthetic capacity and photosynthetic productivity in rice ecosystems
(Elsevier, 2016)
Extensive variation in gross primary production (GPP) among growing seasons in rice ecosystems, which has previously been reported, may be caused by a number of biophysical factors. Two field-based studies, one on Oryza ...
Responses of CO2 exchange and primary production of the ecosystem components to environmental changes in a mountain peatland
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2009)
The complexity of natural ecological systems presents challenges for predicting the impact of global environmental changes on ecosystem structure and function. Grouping of plants into functional types, that is, groups of ...
Quantification of ecosystem carbon exchange characteristics in a dominant subtropical evergreen forest ecosystem
(Korean Meteorological Society and Springer Netherlands, 2012)
CO2 fluxes were measured continuously for three years (2003–2005) using the eddy covariance technique for the canopy layer with a height of 27 m above the ground in a dominant subtropical evergreen forest in Dinghushan, ...