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Publications using the LDSF

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  1. Hughes, K., Sharma, H., Priyadarshini, P., Vågen, T., Winowiecki, L., Meinzen-Dick, R., 2024. Integrating Earth observation, biophysical, and survey data to evaluate the ecological impacts of a common land protection and restoration intervention in Rajasthan, India. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04057-3
  2. Ng, W. et al. Exploring mid-infrared spectral transfer functions for the prediction of multiple soil properties using a global dataset. Soil Science Society of America Journal n/a, (2024).
  3. Falk, D. et al. Drivers of field-saturated soil hydraulic conductivity: Implications for restoring degraded tropical landscapes. Science of The Total Environment 907, 168038 (2024).
  4. Bargués-Tobella, A., Winowiecki, L. A., Sheil, D. & Vågen, T.-G. Determinants of Soil Field-Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Across Sub-Saharan Africa: Texture and Beyond. Water Resources Research 60, e2023WR035510 (2024).
  5. Vågen, T.-G. & Winowiecki, L. A. The LDSF Field Manual. (World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya, 2023).
  6. Takoutsing, B., Winowiecki, L. A., Bargués-Tobella, A. & Vågen, T.-G. Determination of land restoration potentials in the semi-arid areas of Chad using systematic monitoring and mapping techniques. Agroforest Syst 97, 1289–1305 (2023).
  7. Satdichanh, M. et al. Drivers of soil organic carbon stock during tropical forest succession. Journal of Ecology 111, 1722–1734 (2023).
  8. Mens, L. P. et al. Towards effectively restoring agricultural landscapes in East African drylands: Linking plant functional traits with soil hydrology. Journal of Applied Ecology 60, 91–100 (2023).
  9. Ilboudo, T. L. J. et al. Relationship between the stocks of carbon in non-cultivated trees and soils in a West-African forest-savanna transition zone. EGUsphere 1–25 (2022).
  10. Winowiecki, L. A. et al. Bringing evidence to bear for negotiating tradeoffs in sustainable agricultural intensification using a structured stakeholder engagement process. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 19, 474–496 (2021).
  11. Winowiecki, L. A. et al. Assessing soil and land health across two landscapes in eastern Rwanda to inform restoration activities. SOIL 7, 767–783 (2021).
  12. Falk, D. Restoring soil hydraulic conductivity in degraded tropical landscapes. (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, 2021).
  13. Hughes, K. et al. Assessing the downstream socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry in Kenya. World Development 128, 104835 (2020).
  14. Vågen, T.-G. & Winowiecki, L. A. Predicting the Spatial Distribution and Severity of Soil Erosion in the Global Tropics using Satellite Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing 11, 1800 (2019).
  15. Satdichanh, M. et al. Phylogenetic diversity correlated with above-ground biomass production during forest succession: Evidence from tropical forests in Southeast Asia. Journal of Ecology 107, 1419–1432 (2019).
  16. Graham, S. I. et al. Effects of land‐use change on community diversity and composition are highly variable among functional groups. Ecological Applications eap.1973 (2019) doi:10.1002/eap.1973.
  17. Winowiecki, L. A., Vågen, T.-G., Kinnaird, M. F. & O’Brien, T. G. Application of systematic monitoring and mapping techniques: Assessing land restoration potential in semi-arid lands of Kenya. Geoderma 327, 107–118 (2018).
  18. Vågen, T.-G., Winowiecki, L. A., Twine, W. & Vaughan, K. Spatial Gradients of Ecosystem Health Indicators across a Human-Impacted Semiarid Savanna. Journal of Environment Quality 47, 746 (2018).
  19. Lohbeck, M., Winowiecki, L., Aynekulu, E., Okia, C. & Vågen, T. G. Trait-based approaches for guiding the restoration of degraded agricultural landscapes in East Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology 55, 59–68 (2018).
  20. Winowiecki, L. A., Vågen, T.-G., Boeckx, P. & Dungait, J. A. J. Landscape-scale assessments of stable carbon isotopes in soil under diverse vegetation classes in East Africa: application of near-infrared spectroscopy. Plant and Soil 421, 259–272 (2017).
  21. Takoutsing, B. et al. Landscape approach to assess key soil functional properties in the highlands of Cameroon: Repercussions of spatial relationships for land management interventions. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 178, 35–44 (2017).
  22. Piikki, K., Winowiecki, L., Vågen, T.-G. G., Ramirez-Villegas, J. & Söderström, M. Improvement of spatial modelling of crop suitability using a new digital soil map of Tanzania. South African Journal of Plant and Soil 34, 243–254 (2017).
  23. Minasny, B. et al. Soil carbon 4 per mille. Geoderma 292, 59–86 (2017).
  24. Massawe, B. H. J. et al. Assessing drivers of soil properties and classification in the West Usambara mountains, Tanzania. Geoderma Regional 11, 141–154 (2017).
  25. KYEI, E. O. Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) and Farmers’ perceptions to assess how land degradation has changed over a nine-year period in the Sasumua catchment, Kenya. (Bangor University, 2017).
  26. Winowiecki, L. et al. Landscape-scale variability of soil health indicators: effects of cultivation on soil organic carbon in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 105, 263–274 (2016).
  27. Winowiecki, L., Vågen, T.-G. & Huising, J. Effects of land cover on ecosystem services in Tanzania: A spatial assessment of soil organic carbon. Geoderma 263, 274–283 (2016).
  28. Vågen, T.-G., Winowiecki, L. A., Tondoh, J. E., Desta, L. T. & Gumbricht, T. Mapping of soil properties and land degradation risk in Africa using MODIS reflectance. Geoderma 263, 216–225 (2016).
  29. Vågen, T.-G. & Winowiecki, L. A. Mapping of soil organic carbon stocks for spatially explicit assessments of climate change mitigation potential. Environmental Research Letters 8, 015011 (2013).
  30. Vågen, T.-G., Gumbricht, T., 2012. Sahel - Atlas of Changing Landscapes. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - Nairobi, Kenya.
  31. Vågen, T.-G., Walsh, M.G., 2012. Sentinel Site Surveillance in Segou Region, Mali: An evidence-based approach to assessing land degradation and targeting sustainable land management interventions, in: Land Health Surveillance - an Evidence-Based Approach to Land Ecosystem Management. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), pp. 115–171.
  32. Stene, R. Potential for soil carbon sequestration through rehabilitation of degraded lands in the Baringo District , Kenya. (2007).
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