Erosion of agricultural land endangers the livelihood of millions of people who depend on natural resources. Soil and water conservation practices (SWCP) are intended to reduce runoff production and erosion. Under-standing surface runoff drivers are crucial for the effective design and implementation of SWCPs. We present field observations of compl...
There is an urgent need to increase cereal yields in the Ethiopian Highlands to ensure national food security. A major crop response-to-fertilizer program was set up in 2017–2019 as part of the CASCAPE project in the Ethiopian Highlands. It covered 33 experiments on maize, teff and wheat in five reference soil groups (Nitisols, Luvisols, Vertisols,...
A significant constraint in water resource development in developing countries is the lack of accurate river discharge data. Stage–discharge measurements are infrequent, and rating curves are not updated after major storms. Therefore, the objective is to develop accurate stage–discharge rating curves with limited measurements. The Lake Tana basin i...
Land and water degradation endangers the livelihood of millions of people who are dependent on natural resources. The negative impacts of land and water degradation include loss of topsoil, water scarcity and reduced productivity of agricultural or natural ecosystems, as well as costs associated with mitigation measures like water treatment. Addres...
Published in Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics
Effective watershed planning requires an understanding of the hydrology. In the humid tropical monsoon climates and especially in volcanic highland regions such as the Ethiopian Highlands, the understanding of watershed processes is incomplete. The objective is to better understand the hydrology of the volcanic regions in the humid highlands by lin...
Published in Russian Journal of Genetics
AbstractThe species number has been strikingly increasing in recent current works on Ethiopian endemic rodents, which to a great extent is due to genomic studies including the karyotype discoveries. Here, the diploid number 2N = 52 is defined anew for the genus Stenocephalemys, endemic to the Ethiopian Highlands, where four karyotypes with 2N value...
Published in American journal of primatology
Primates inhabiting human-modified landscapes often exploit matrix habitat to supplement their diet with cultivated foods, at times resulting in economic losses and conflict with local people. Understanding human-nonhuman primate interactions and the attitudes and perceptions of local people towards crop feeding species are crucial to designing eff...
The edges of the Ethiopian Plateau are affected by frequent landslides predisposed by pronounced seasonality in precipitation, thick weathering mantle of volcanic material, and rough relief. We analyzed the three-dimensional dynamics of three large landslides in Dessie using digital elevation models and ortho-images derived from a time-series of ae...
Published in American journal of primatology
Studies of the effects of habitat fragmentation and degradation on primate positional behavior, strata use, and substrate utilization offer valuable insights into the behavioral and ecological flexibility of primates whose habitats have undergone extensive anthropogenic disturbance. In this study, we evaluated how positional behavior, strata use, a...
Published in Primates
Understanding the basic natural history of threatened primate taxa is crucial to developing and implementing successful conservation strategies for them. Data on feeding ecology and activity patterns are particularly important for identifying the strategies through which primates invest time and foraging effort towards survival and reproduction at ...
