Baseline assessment of soil and land health indicators within the ‘Drylands Transform’ and ‘Drylands Restore’ sites in Kenya and Uganda using the LDSF

These data were collected within the research projects ‘Achieving the SDGs in East African drylands: Pathways and challenges towards a social-ecological transformation of landscapes, livestock and livelihoods (Drylands Transform)’ and ‘Management and restoration towards healthy rangelands in East Africa (Drylands Restore)’ led by SLU and funded by the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development – Formas. The data were collected using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) methodology developed by ICRAF (http://landscapeportal.org/blog/2015/03/25/the-land-degradation-surveillance-framework-ldsf/). This dataset contains LDSF field data from five LDSF sites – three in Kenya (Chepareria, Kalama and Lokiriama) and two in Uganda (Matany and Rupa) – totalling 778 LDSF plots. It also contains the predictions using MIR Spectroscopy for 1515 Topsoil (0-20cm) and Subsoil (20-50cm) samples for eleven soil variables, including soil organic carbon, total nitrogen and pH.

Dataset’s Files

Infiltration_DT_DR.tab
MD5: c6e6794db4e3e50abd915f2fe50eeed0


ldsf_mirpred_soilvars_DT_DR.tab
MD5: 1b51e6dcaad0dd629f76e3e83c1aeb46


Predicted Soil Variables Description.tab
MD5: a7dfe541b3d135ba17aea1fc710f06c1


table_plotproperties_DT_DR.tab
MD5: 7500dc1fca308e4f14f978c4fbfefe66


table_rangelands_DT_DR.tab
MD5: 3b6de750c93cafddbf51109e1366fbb5


Terms of use
This dataset is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0). The license allows you, the user, to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and/or transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
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Authors

Winowiecki, Leigh Ann; Bargués-Tobella, Aida; Maina, John; Musembi Kimeu, John; Vågen, Tor-Gunnar

Keywords

soil chemicophysical properties, rangelands

Publisher

ICRAF Soil and Land Health Theme

Publication date

14 Jun 2023

DOI

https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/UJVTK8