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David E. Pelster
Affiliation : Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- 31Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
- 111Total publications
- 3452Citations
- 33h-index
Research profile
David E. Pelster has 31 indexed publications (2013–2024). Their work appears mainly in “Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences”, “The Science of The Total Environment” and “Biogeosciences”. Their most cited article, “Groundwater recharge rates and surface runoff response to land use and land cover changes in semi-arid environments” (2016), has been cited 278 times. 3 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in Germany, Indonesia, Canada, Australia.
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Create my free profile Add my publicationsResearch areas
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Publications (31)
- Field trial guidelines for evaluating enhanced efficiency fertilizers
- Preconditions for Including the Effects of Urease and Nitrification Inhibitors in Emission Inventories
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Response to Fertilizer Application and Soil Moisture in Dry Agricultural Uplands of Central Kenya
- Effect of feeding practices and manure quality on CH4 and N2O emissions from uncovered cattle manure heaps in Kenya
- Nitrous oxide emission factors for cattle dung and urine deposited onto tropical pastures: A review of field-based studies
- The effects of climate on decomposition of cattle, sheep and goat manure in Kenyan tropical pastures
- Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Maize Production Under Different Soil Fertility Management Practices in East Africa
- Interactive effects of dung deposited onto urine patches on greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical pastures in Kenya
- Manure Management Practices and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications on Manure Quality as a Fertilizer
- Soil carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from forests and other land use types in an African tropical montane region
- Influence of soil properties on N2O and CO2 emissions from excreta deposited on tropical pastures in Kenya
- Earthworms regulate ability of biochar to mitigate CO2 and N2O emissions from a tropical soil
- Effect of Dung Quantity and Quality on Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Tropical Pastures in Kenya
- Enhancing soil organic carbon, particulate organic carbon and microbial biomass in semi-arid rangeland using pasture enclosures
- Land Use, Land Use History, and Soil Type Affect Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Agricultural Landscapes of the East African Highlands
- Soil nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils in Canada: Exploring relationships with soil, crop and climatic variables
- Land use affects total dissolved nitrogen and nitrate concentrations in tropical montane streams in Kenya
- Smallholder farms in eastern African tropical highlands have low soil greenhouse gas fluxes
- Conversion of natural forest results in a significant degradation of soil hydraulic properties in the highlands of Kenya
- Management intensity controls soil N2O fluxes in an Afromontane ecosystem
- Simple and robust algorithms to estimate liveweight in African smallholder cattle
- Groundwater recharge rates and surface runoff response to land use and land cover changes in semi-arid environments
- Greenhouse gas emissions from natural ecosystems and agricultural lands in sub-Saharan Africa: synthesis of available data and suggestions for further research
- Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Cattle Excreta on an East African Grassland
- Greenhouse gas fluxes from agricultural soils of Kenya and Tanzania
- Long-term assessment of soil and water conservation measures (Fanya-juu terraces) on soil organic matter in South Eastern Kenya
- Ground cover rice production systems increase soil carbon and nitrogen stocks at regional scale
- Regional nitrogen budget of the Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa: syntheses, uncertainties and perspectives
- Nitrate Sorption in an Agricultural Soil Profile
- Evidencing overwinter loss of residual organic and clay-fixed nitrogen from spring-applied, 15N-labelled pig slurry
- Phosphorus sorption kinetics in different types of alkaline soils
Publication venues
- Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences × 3
- The Science of The Total Environment × 3
- Biogeosciences × 3
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment × 2
- Soil Science Society of America Journal × 1
- Global Change Biology × 1
Publications per year
- 20242
- 20221
- 20212
- 20203
- 20194
- 20183
- 20176
- 20165
- 20151
- 20141
Collaborations
Partner institutions : International Livestock Research Institute · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · World Agroforestry Centre · Center for International Forestry Research · University of Nairobi
Co-authors’ countries : Germany · Indonesia · Canada · Australia
Co-authors
- Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl
- Lutz Merbold
- Sonja Leitner
- Yuhao Zhu
- J. P. Goopy
- Todd S. Rosenstock
- Paul M. Mutuo
- George N. Wanyama
- Alphonce C. Guzha
- Suzanne Jacobs
- Felix Kipchirchir Ngetich
- Mariana Cristina Rufino
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