Land Use, Land Use History, and Soil Type Affect Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Agricultural Landscapes of the East African Highlands

Published

2018

Data Available

04 Apr 2018

Last Updated

05 Feb 2021

Countries

Uganda

Status

Open Access

Language

Journal Article

https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92025

This study aims to explain effects of soil textural class, topography, land use, and land use history on soil greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in the Lake Victoria region. We measured GHG fluxes from intact soil cores collected in Rakai, Uganda, an area characterized by low‐input smallholder (

Citation

Wanyama, I., Rufino, M. C., Pelster, D. E., Wanyama, G., Atzberger, C., van Asten, P., Verchot, Louis. V. and Butterbach-Bahl, K. (2018) Land-use, land-use history and soil type affect soil greenhouse gas fluxes from agricultural landscapes of the East African highlands, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences,123(3): 976-990.