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Environmental quality and fish communities in selected catchments of Lake Victoria
(Bentham Open, 2011-09-09)
Water quality and fish species are studied in selected catchments of Lake Victoria. The major aim of the study
is to establish the relationship between the environmental quality and fish communities in the selected study ...
Subtle Impacts of Temperature and Rainfall Patterns on Land Cover Change Overtime and Future Projections in the Mara River Basin, Kenya
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2020)
The interactive and cumulative effect of temperature and rainfall on land cover change is a priority at global, regional and local scale. This study examined changes in six land cover categories (forestland, grasslands, ...
Using GIS to Assess Sustainable Land Management; A case of Manyatta B, an Informal Settlement in Kisumu, Kenya
(Research Gate, 2020)
Sustainable land management is a knowledge based mechanism through which land is managed
to ensure that land as a resource is optimally utilized taking into consideration the current users
and users while ensuring that ...
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)