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Sonja Leitner
Affiliation : International Livestock Research Institute
- 19Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
Research profile
Sonja Leitner has 19 indexed publications (2019–2025). Their work appears mainly in “Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment”, “Biogeosciences” and “Agricultural Systems”. Their most cited article, “Closing maize yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa will boost soil N2O emissions” (2020), has been cited 80 times. 5 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, Switzerland, Finland, Vietnam.
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- Practical paths towards quantifying and mitigating agricultural methane emissions
- Detection of fast-changing intra-seasonal vegetation dynamics of drylands using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF)
- Greenhouse gas emissions from cattle enclosures in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: The case of a rangeland in South-Central Kenya
- Comparison of Tier 1 and 2 methodologies for estimating intake and enteric methane emission factors from smallholder cattle systems in Africa: a case study from Ethiopia
- Greenhouse gas emissions from sheep excreta deposited onto tropical pastures in Kenya
- Perceived effects of COVID-19 restrictions on smallholder farmers: Evidence from seven lower- and middle-income countries
- Research Progress on Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Livestock in Sub-Saharan Africa Falls Short of National Inventory Ambitions
- 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
- Opportunities for an African greenhouse gas observation system
- A framework for assessing the effects of shock events on livestock and environment in sub-Saharan Africa: The COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Kenya
- Enteric methane emission estimates for Kenyan cattle in a nighttime enclosure using a backward Lagrangian Stochastic dispersion technique
- Closing maize yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa will boost soil N2O emissions
- The effects of climate on decomposition of cattle, sheep and goat manure in Kenyan tropical pastures
- Soil greenhouse gas emissions under different land-use types in savanna ecosystems of Kenya
- Legacy effects of drought on nitrate leaching in a temperate mixed forest on karst
- Interactive effects of dung deposited onto urine patches on greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical pastures in Kenya
- Response of Microbial Communities and Their Metabolic Functions to Drying–Rewetting Stress in a Temperate Forest Soil
- Influence of soil properties on N2O and CO2 emissions from excreta deposited on tropical pastures in Kenya
Publication venues
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment × 3
- Biogeosciences × 2
- Agricultural Systems × 2
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences × 1
- Animal - Open Space × 1
- Frontiers in Soil Science × 1
Publications per year
- 20252
- 20242
- 20231
- 20222
- 20215
- 20205
- 20192
Collaborations
Partner institutions : Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · Agroscope · University of Embu · University of Helsinki · University of Kabianga
Co-authors’ countries : Germany · Switzerland · Finland · Vietnam
Co-authors
- Lutz Merbold
- Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl
- Yuhao Zhu
- David E. Pelster
- Paul M. Mutuo
- J. P. Goopy
- Jesse Kagai Gakige
- Claudia Arndt
- Phyllis W. Ndung’u
- Daniel Korir
- Tigist Worku
- Philemon Chelanga
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