• Towards regional, error-bounded landscape carbon storage estimates for data-deficient areas of the world 

  Willcock, Simon; Phillips, Oliver L.; Platts, Philip J; Balmford, Andrew; Burgess, Neil D.; Lovett, Jon C.; Ahrends, Antje; Mbilinyi, Boniface; Lewis, Simon L. (PLOS ONE, 2012-09-14)

  Monitoring landscape carbon storage is critical for supporting and validating climate change mitigation policies. These may be aimed at reducing deforestation and degradation, or increasing terrestrial carbon storage at ...
• Use of a hydrological model for environmental management of the usangu wetlands, Tanzania 

  Kashaigili, Japhet J.; McCartney, Matthew P.; Mahoo, Henry F.; Lankford, Bruce A.; Mbilinyi, Boniface P.; Yawson, Daniel K.; Tumbo, Siza D. (IWMI Research, 2016-05)

  This report presents the findings of a study to assess changes to flows into, and downstream of, the Usangu Wetlands, located in the headwaters of the Great Ruaha River, Tanzania. Hydrological data, in conjunction with ...
• Deforestation in an African biodiversity hotspot: extent, variation and the effectiveness of protected areas 

  Green, Jonathan M.H.; Larrosa, Cecilia; Burgess, Neil D.; Balmford, Andrew; Johnston, Alison; Mbilinyi, Boniface P.; Platts, Philip J.; Coad, Lauren (Elsevier, 2013-06)

  The Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania show exceptional endemism that is threatened by high anthro- pogenic pressure leading to the loss of natural habitat. Using a novel habitat conversion model, we pres- ent a spatially ...
• Commercialisation of African smallholder farming. The case of smallholder farmers in Central Tanzania 

  Mutabazi, Khamaldin; Wiggins, Steve; Mdoe, Ntengua (Future Agricultures, 2013-08)

  African agriculture is predominantly carried out on small-scale family farms. The big question about such family farms is whether they can be successfully commercialised within their current structures, or whether they ...
• Conservation implications of deforestation across an elevational gradient in the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania 

  Burgess, Neil D.; Mbilinyi, Boniface; Gereau, Roy E.; Hall, Jaclyn; Lovett, Jon (Elsevier, 2009-11)

  Deforestation is a major threat to the conservation of biodiversity, especially within global centers of endemism for plants and animals. Elevation, the major environmental gradient in mountain regions of the world, ...
• The biological importance of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and Kenya 

  Burgess, N.D.; Butynski, T.M.; Cordeiro, N.J.; Doggart, N.H.; Fjeldså, J.; Howell, K.M.; Kilahama, F.B.; Loader, S.P.; Lovett, J.C.; Mbilinyi, B.; Menegon, M.; Moyer, D.C.; Nashanda, E.; Perking, A. (Elsevier, 2006-10)

  The Eastern Arc Mountains are renown in Africa for high concentrations of endemic Received 17 June 2005 species of animals and plants. Thirteen separate mountain blocks comprise the Eastern Received in revised Arc, ...
• Prediction of soil moisture-holding capacity with support vector machines in dry subhumid tropics 

  Kaingo, Jacob; Tumbo, Siza D.; Kihupi, Nganga I.; Mbilinyi, Boniface P. (Hindawi, 2018-07)

  Soil moisture-holding capacity data are required in modelling agrohydrological functions of dry subhumid environments for sustainable crop yields. However, they are hardly sufficient and costly to measure. Mathematical ...
• Climate change impacts and adaptation among coastal and mangrove dependent communities: a case of Bagamoyo district 

  Mbwambo, J.S; Madalla, D; Zahabu, E; Ndelolia, D; Mnembuka, B; Lamtane, H. A; Mwandya, A. W (2012)

  The study was done to determine perception, impacts and adaptation of coastal communities towards climate change. A total of three villages and 120 respondents were involved in the study. Both Focus Group Interviews and ...
• Level, source, and distribution of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in agricultural soils of Tanzania 

  Nyihirani, Fatuma; Qu, Chengkai; Yuan, Zhang; Zhang, Yunchao; Mbululo, Yassin; Janneh, Mariama; Qi, Shihua (Springer, 2022)

  This study investigated the level, com- position, and spatial and vertical distribution of the organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) at 0–2 cm and 2–20 cm in the agricultural surface soils from South- eastern to Central-western ...
• The unusual reddish-bloom appearance in a freshwater fishpond at Kingolwira National Fish Farming Center, Morogoro, Tanzania 

  Kimambo, Offoro N.; Gumbo, Jabulani R.; Msagati, Titus A.M; Chikoore, Hector (IJE, 2020-05)

  The study aimed to examines a case of what constituted the uncommonly reddish-bloom appearance in the fishponds during the dry season (September 2018) at Kingolwira National Fish Farming Center located in Morogoro, ...
• Harmful Algal Blooms in Aquaculture Systems in Ngerengere Catchment, Morogoro, Tanzania: Stakeholder’s Experiences and Perception 

  Kimambo, Offoro Neema; Gumbo, Jabulani Ray; Chikoore, Hector; Msagati, Makudali (MDPI, 2021)

  The aquaculture sector has experienced fast growth as a result of livelihood diversification initiatives among small-scale farmers in Tanzania. Regrettably, the dynamics of harmful algal blooms (HABs) have been overlooked ...
• Understanding the Effects of Changing Weather: A Case of Flash Flood in Morogoro on January 11, 2018 

  Kimambo, Offoro Neema; Chikoore, Hector; Gumbo, Jabulani Ray (Hindawi, 2019)

  Floods are the leading cause of hydrometeorological disasters in East Africa. Regardless of where, when, and how the event has happened, floods affect social security as well as environmental damages. Understanding floods ...
• Harmful algae in aquaculture systems in Ngerengere Catchment, Morogoro, Tanzania: Descriptive community structure and environmental concerns 

  Offoro N. Kimambo, Offoro N.; Gumbo, Jabulani R.; Msagati, Titus A.M.; Chikoore, Hector (Elsevier Ltd, 2021-12)

  Climate variability, anthropogenic activities, and hydrological shifts are fueling the nuisance of harmful algal blooms in water bodies. Unfortunately, cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) dynamics have ...
• The occurrence of cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater ecosystems and their link with hydro-meteorological and environmental variations in Tanzania 

  Kimambo, Offoro N.; Gumbo, Jabulani R.; Chikoore, Hector (Elsevier Ltd, 2019-03)

  Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are photosynthetic bacteria that under favorable environmental conditions produce secondary metabolites (cyanotoxins) which are harmful to the environment, including humans. The mass ...
• Retrospective analysis of Chlorophyll-a and its correlation with climate and hydrological variations in Mindu Dam, Morogoro, Tanzania 

  Kimambo, Offoro N.; Chikoore, Hector; Gumbo, Jabulani R.; Msagati, Titus A. M. (Elsevier Ltd, 2014-11-06)

  The measurement of Chlorophyll-a in aquatic systems has usually correlated to harmful algae in water bodies. Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are as a result of massive proliferation of blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria). ...
• Harmful algae in aquaculture systems in Ngerengere Catchment, Morogoro, Tanzania: Descriptive community structure and environmental concerns 

  Kimambo, Offoro N.; Gumbo, Jabulani R.; Msagati, Titus A.M.; Chikoore, Hector (Elsevier Ltd, 2022)

  Climate variability, anthropogenic activities, and hydrological shifts are fueling the nuisance of harmful algal blooms in water bodies. Unfortunately, cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) dynamics have ...
• Paying to conserve watershed services in Pangani River Basin, Tanzania 

  Lalika, Makarius C.S.; Meire, Patrick; Ngaga, Yonika M. (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2015)

  Human beings depend on the integrity of watersheds to provide ecosys- tem services (e.g., water) that they need for their survival. The current watershed degradation represents the most serious threat to the provision ...
• Resilience in climate stressed environment through water grabbing 

  Lalika, Makarius C. S. (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020, 2020)

  Climate change (CC) is currently considered as the most severe and devastating environmental catastrophe facing the globe. CC is the latest environmental driver of global environmental change causing rainfall shortage ...
• The development of boundary layer structure index (BLSI) and its relationship with ground air quality 

  Zheng, Xiang; Qin, Jun; Liang, Shengwen; Yuan, Zhengxuan; Mbululo, Yassin (2018)

  Ambient air quality monitoring data and radar tracking sonde data were used to study the atmospheric boundary layer structure (ABLS) and its changing characteristics over Wuhan. The boundary layer structure index (BLSI), ...
• The relationship between atmospheric circulation, boundary layer and near-surface turbulence in severe fog-haze pollution periods 

  Yuan, Zhengxuan; Jun, Qin; Zheng, Xiang; Mbululo, Yassin (2019)

  Wind, temperature, relative humidity and aerosol mass concentration were monitored simultaneously in Wuhan, China. Several observations were found after analyzing the physical fields of these data. It was obvious that ...

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