Publications List

Publications 2012

• Barrios, E.; Sileshi, G.W.; Shepherd, K.; Sinclair, F.  2012 Agroforestry and soil health: linking trees, soil biota and ecosystem services.  In: Wall, D.H. et  al (Eds.).  Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services.  Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Pp. 315-330.
• Chen HF, Yan M, Yang XF, Chen Z, Wang GA, Schmidt-Vogt D, Xu YF, Xu JC, 2012. Spatial distribution and temporal variation of high fluoride contents in groundwater and prevalence of fluorosis in humans in Yuanmou County, southwest China. Journal of Hazardous Materials doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.07.042
• Fang J, Wu XN, Xu JC, Yang XF, Song XX, Wang GA, Yan MS, Yan M, Wang DN, 2012. Water Management Challenges in the Context of Agricultural Intensification and Endemic Fluorosis: The Case of Yuanmou County, EcoHealth 8(4):444-455 http://dx.doi.org /10.1007/s10393-011-0730-x
• Grumbine, R. E., Dore, J. and J. Xu. 2012. Mekong hydropower: drivers of change and governance challenges. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(2):91-98. http://www.esa.org/pdfs/Grumbine.pdf
• Jeffrey E. Herrick , Kevin C. Urama, Jason W. Karl, John Boos, Mari-Vaughn V. Johnson, Keith D. Shepherd, Jon Hempel, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Jonathan Davies, Jorge Larson Guerra, Chris Kosnik, David W. Kimiti, Abra- ham Losinyen Ekai, Kit Muller, Lee Norfleet, Nicholas Ozor, Thomas Reinsch, José Sarukhan, and Larry T. West, 2012. The global Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS): Supporting evidence-based, site-specific land use and management through cloud computing, mobile applications, and crowdsourcing. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 68(1): 5A – 12A. http://dx.doi.org/10.2489/jswc.68.1.5A.
• King Liebenow D., Cohen M.J., Gumbricht, T., Shepherd, K.D., Shepherd, G. 2012. Do ecosystem services influence household wealth in rural Mali? Ecological Economics 82: 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.08.005.
• Mekuria, W. & Aynekulu, E. 2011. Exclosure land management restores soil properties of degraded communal grazing lands in northern Ethiopia. Land Degradation and Development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.1146
• Pandit R and RE Grumbine. 2012. Potential effects of ongoing and proposed hydropower development on terrestrial biodiversity in the Indian Himalaya. Conservation Biology 26: 1061–1071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01918.x
• Tamene, L. Abegaz, A. Aynekulu, E. Woldearegay, K. & Vlek, P.L.G. 2011. Estimating sediment yield risk of reservoirs in northern Ethiopia using expert knowledge and semi quantitative approaches. Lakes and Reservoirs Research and Management, 16:293-305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1770.2011.00489.x
• Tittonell, P., Muriuki, A., Klapwijk, C.J., Shepherd, K.D., Coe, R., Vanlauw, B.  (2012). B. Soil Heterogeneity and Soil Fertility Gradients in Smallholder Agricultural Systems of the East African Highlands. Sol Sci Soc Am J. (in press). http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2012.0250.
• Towett, E.K., Alex, M., Shepherd, K.D., Polreich, S., Aynekulu, E., and Maass, B.L. (2012). Applicability of near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) for determination of crude protein content in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) leaves. Food Science and Nutrition (in press). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.7
• UNEP (2012). Land Health Surveillance: An Evidence-Based Approach to Land Ecosystem Management. Illustrated with a Case Study in the West Africa Sahel. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi. http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/PDFs/RP12301.PDF
• UNEP (2012). Sahel Atlas of Changing Landscapes: Tracing trends and variations in vegetation cover and soil condition. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi.
• Vagen, T-G., Davery, F.A. and Shepherd, K.D. (2012) Land Health Surveillance: Mapping Soil Carbon in Rangelands. In P.K. Ramachandran Nair and D. Garrity (eds) Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 455-462.

Other Publications 

• UNEP (2013). Sahel Atlas of Changing Landscapes: Tracing trends and variations in vegetation cover and soil condition. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi. http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/Sahel_Atlas_lowres.pdf
• UNEP (2012). Land Health Surveillance: An Evidence-Based Approach to Land Ecosystem Management. Illustrated with a Case Study in the West Africa Sahel. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi. http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/LHS_Summary_lowres.pdf
• UNEP (2012). Ecosystem Services and Rural Livelihoods in the Sahel: Environmental Accounting and Wealth Surveys. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi. http://www.unep.org/publications/search/pub_details_s.asp?ID=6296
• UNEP (2012). Environmental Accounting of National Economic Systems: An Analysis of West Africa Dryland Countries within a Global Context. United Nations Environmental Programme, Nairobi. http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/EANE_Report_lowres.pdf

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Journal articles produced by ICRAF (2008-2012)

• Awiti AO, Walsh MG, Shepherd KD and Kinyamario J. 2008. Soil condition classification using infrared spectroscopy: a proposition for assessment of soil condition along a tropical forest-cropland chronosequence. Geoderma 143: 73-84. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00167061
• Xu, J.; Sharma, R.; Fang, J.; Xu, Y.F. 2008. Critical linkages between land-use transition and human health in the Himalayan region. Environment International 34: 239-247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2007.08.004  
• deGraffenreid JB and Shepherd KD. 2009. Rapid and Effective Soil Erosion Modeling in a Western Kenya Watershed using Near Infrared Reflectance, Classification Tree Analysis and 137Cesium. Geoderma 154: 93 - 100 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001670610900319X
• Sanchez, P.A.; Ahamed, S.; Carré, F.; Hartemink, A.E.; Hempel, J.; Huising, J.; Lagacherie, P.; McBratney, A.B.; McKenzie, N.J.; Mendonça-Santos, L.; Minasny, B.; Montanarella, L.; Okoth, P.; Palm, C.A.; Sachs, J.D.; Shepherd, K.D.; Vågen, T-G.; Vanlauwe, B.; Walsh, M.G.; Winowiecki, L.A.; Zhang, G-L. 2009. Digital soil map of the world. Science 325: 680-681. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5941/680.full
• Grumbine, R.E.; Xu, J. Prescott College, Prescott (USA) 2009. China shakes the world - and then what?. Conservation Biology 23 (3) p. 513-515. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01259.x/abstract
• Vanlauwe B, BationoA, ChianuJ, Giller KE, Merckx R, MokwunyeU, Ohiokpehai O, Pypers P, Tabo R, Shepherd K, Smaling E, Woomer PL, and Sanginga N. 2010. Integrated soil fertility management: Operational definition and consequences for implementation and dissemination. Outlook on Agriculture 39(1): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000010791169998
• Tittonell P, Muriuki A, Shepherd KD, Mugendi D, Kaizzi KC, Okeyo J, Verchot L, Coe R, Vanlauwe B. 2010. The diversity of rural livelihoods and their influence on soil fertility in agricultural systems of East Africa – A typology of smallholder farms. Agricultural Systems 103: 83–97 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2009.10.001
• Sjögren H, Shepherd, KD and Karlsson, A. 2010. Effects of improved fallow with Sesbania sesban on maize productivity and Striga hermonthica infestation in Western Kenya. Journal of Forestry Research 21(3): 379−386. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11676-010-0085-0
• Terhoeven-Urselmans T, Vagen T-G, Spaargaren O, Shepherd KD. 2010. Prediction of soil fertility properties from a globally distributed soil mid-infrared spectral library. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 74:1792–1799. http://www.isric.nl/isric/webdocs/docs/sssaj-74-5-1792.pdf
• Xing, M., Xu, J., van Noordwijk, M. 2010. Sensitivity of streamflow from a Himalayan catchment to plausible changes in land-cover and climate. Hydrological Processes 24:1379-1390. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.7602/abstract
• Tsegaye, D., Moe, S.R., Vedeld, P., Aynekulu, E. 2010. Land-use/cover dynamics in Northern Afar rangelands, Ethiopia. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 139:174–180. http://www.zef.de/module/register/media/b67e_Diress%20et%20al%202010.pdf
• Grumbine, R.E.; Xu, J. 2011. Mekong hydropower development. Science 332 p. 178–179. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6026/178.full
• Grumbine, R.E.; Xu Jianchu. 2011. Creating a ‘conservation with Chinese characteristics’. Biological Conservation 144 (5) p. 1347-1355. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/biological-conservation/
• Verchot, L.V., Dutaur, L., Shepherd, K.D., Albrecht, A. 2011. Organic matter stabilization in soil aggregates: Understanding the biogeochemical mechanisms that determine the fate of carbon inputs in soils. Geoderma 161: 182–193. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00167061
• Muhati, S.I, Shepherd, K.D., Gachene, C.K., Mburu, M.W., Jones, R., Kironchi, G.O. and Sila, A. 2011. Diagnosis of Soil Nutrient Constraints in Small-scale Groundnut (Arachis hyopaea L.) Production Systems of Western Kenya Using Infrared Spectroscopy. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology A 1 111 – 127. http://www.davidpublishing.org/journals_show_abstract.html?300-0
• Kamau-Rewe Kamau-Rewe, M., Rasche, F., Cobo, J.G., Dercon, G., Shepherd, K.D., Cadisch, G. 2011. Generic prediction of soil organic carbon in Alfisols using diffuse reflectance Fourier transformed mid-infrared spectroscopy. Soil Science Society of America Journal 75: 2358–2360. https://www.soils.org/publications/sssaj/abstracts/75/6/2358
• Kodikara G., Woldai T., van Ruitenbeek, F., Kuriac, Z., van der Meer, F., Shepherd, K., van Hummel, J. 2011. Spectral remote sensing of evaporate minerals and associated sediments in Lake Magadi area, Kenya. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 14: 22–32. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303243411001176  
• Aynekulu, E., Denich, M., Tsegaye, D., Aerts, R., Neuwirth, B., and Boehmer, H.J. 2011. Dieback affects forest structure in a dry Afromontane forest in northern Ethiopia. Journal of Arid Environments 75: 499–503. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-arid-environments/
• Birhane, E., Aynekulu, E., Mekuria, W., and Endale, D. 2011. Management, use and ecology of medicinal plants in the degraded dry lands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research 5: 309–318. http://www.academicjournals.org/journals.htm
• Mekuria W, Aynekulu E. 2011. Exclosure land management for restoration of the soils in degraded communal grazing lands in northern Ethiopia. Land Degradation & Development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.1146
• Tamene, L., Abegaz, A., Aynekulu, E., Woldearegay, K., and Vlek, P.L.G. 2011. Estimating sediment yield risk of reservoirs in northern Ethiopia using expert knowledge and semi quantitative approaches. Lakes and Reservoirs Research and Management: 16:293-305. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/advanced/search/results
• Grumbine R.E., Dore J. Xu, J. 2012. Mekong hydropower: drivers of change and governance challenges. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10: 91–98 http://www.esa.org/pdfs/Grumbine.PDF