Browsing by Author "Murray-Hudson, Mike"

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  • Assessment of benefits and risks of growing Jatropha (Jatropha curcas) as a biofuel crop in sub-Saharan Africa: a contribution to agronomic and socio-economic policies 

    Kashe, Keotshephile; Kgathi, Donald L.; Murray-Hudson, Mike; Mfundisi, Kelebogile (Springer Link, https://link.springer.com, 2017-07-17)
    In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the main goals behind the development of a biofuel industry are employment creation and income generation. Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.) has emerged as a candidate for biodiesel production. It ...

  • Estimating Biodiversity in Remote Areas, Using Existing Vegetation Data: The Ngamiland Region 

    Vanderpost, Cornelis; Ringrose, Susan; Murray-Hudson, Mike (University of Botswana; www.ub.bw, 2015-07-09)
    In data-poor regions, especially when they are large and remote, the measurement of biodiversity presents considerable challenges. This paper explores a way of estimating regional patterns of biodiversity through a combination ...

  • Evaluation of maize yield in flood recession farming in the Okavango Delta, Botswana 

    Kashe, Keotshephile; Mogobe, Oarabile; Morake, Thebeetsile; Murray-Hudson, Mike (Academic Jornals, http://www.academicjournals.org, 2015-04-09)
    Flood recession farming locally known as molapo farming in the Okavango Delta is practiced along the edges of the river channels or seasonally flooded depressions on its fringes. It relies on residual moisture and natural ...

  • Flood variation and soil nutrient content in floodplain vegetation communities in the Okavango Delta 

    Tsheboeng, Gaolathe; Bonyongo, Mphaphi; Murray-Hudson, Mike (South African Journal of Science; http://www.scielo.org.za, 2014-02)
    We investigated the influence of hydroperiod variation on soil nutrient content in the Okavango Delta seasonal floodplains. Soil samples were collected from eight zones of homogenous vegetation cover after low and high ...

  • Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability. 

    Chan, Kai M. A.; Boyd, David R.; Gould, Rachelle K.; Jetzkowitz, Jens; Liu, Jianguo; Muraca, Barbara; Naidoo, Robin; Olmsted, Paige; Satterfield, Terre; Selomane, Odirilwe; Singh, Gerald G.; Sumaila, Rashid; Ngo, Hien T.; Boedhihartono, Agni Klintuni; Agard, John; de Aguiar, Ana Paula D.; Armenteras, Dolors; Balint, Lenke; Barrington-Leigh, Christopher; Cheung, William W. L.; Díaz, Sandra; Driscoll, John; Esler, Karen; Eyster, Harold; Gregr, Edward J.; Hashimoto, Shizuka; Pedraza, Gladys Cecilia Hernández; Hickler, Thomas; Kok, Marcel; Lazarova, Tanya; Mohamed, Assem A. A.; Murray-Hudson, Mike; O'Farrell, Patrick; Palomo, Ignacio; Ali, Kerem Saysel; Seppelt, Ralf; Settele, Josef; Strassburg, Bernardo; Xue, Dayuan; Brondízio, Eduardo S. (British Ecological Society, 2020-07-23)
    1. Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals and global environmental targets. Until recently, there was ...

  • Microplastic accumulation in endorheic river basins – the example of the Okavango Panhandle (Botswana) 

    Kelleher, Liam; Schneidewind, Uwe; Krause, Stefan; Haverson, Lee; Allen, Steve; Allen, Deonie; Kukkola, Anna; Murray-Hudson, Mike; Maselli, Vittorio; Franchi, Fulvio (Elsevier, https://www.elsevier.com, 2023-05-20)
    The Okavango Panhandle is the main influent watercourse of the Okavango Delta, an inland sink of the entire sediment load of the Cubango-Okavango River Basin (CORB). The sources of pollution in the CORB, and other endorheic ...

  • Physicochemical controls of diffusive methane fluxes in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. 

    Masamba, Wellington R.L.; Gondwe, Mangaliso J.; Murray-Hudson, Mike (Springer Science, https://link.springer.com, 2015)
    Atmospheric methane (CH4) is one of the three key greenhouse gases (GHGs) driving global climate change. The atmospheric concentration of CH4 has increased by about 150 % above pre-industrial levels of 400–700 ppb due to ...

  • The relevance of fire frequency for the floodplain vegetation of the Okavango Delta, Botswana 

    Heinl, Michael; Sliva, Jan; Tacheba, Buzanani; Murray-Hudson, Mike (Wiley, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com, 2007)
    The study investigates the relevance of fire frequency for the floodplain vegetation of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, considering species composition, species richness, vegetation structure and tree density. Based on ...

  • Sap flow variation in selected riparian woodland species in the Okavango Delta, Botswana 

    Lubinda, Aobakwe K.; Murray-Hudson, Mike; Green, Steve (Wiley, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com, 2017-04-28)
    In the tropical Okavango Delta, transpiration by trees is an important process partly responsible for maintaining the basin as a freshwater environment. Quantification of evapotranspiration from terrestrial landforms of ...

  • Tracing silicon cycling in the Okavango Delta, a sub-tropical flood-pulse wetland using silicon isotopes 

    Frings, Patrick J.; De La Rocha, Christina; Struyf, Eric; van Pelt, Dimitri; Schoelynck, Jonas; Murray-Hudson, Mike; Gondwe, Mangaliso J.; Wolsk, Piotr; Mosimane, Keotsheple; Gray, William; Schallerf, Jorg; Conley, Daniel J. (Elservier, https://www.elsevier.com, 2014-07-22)
    Chemical weathering of silicate minerals releases elements into solution whereas the neoformation of secondary minerals works in the opposite direction, potentially confounding estimates of silicate weathering rates. Silicon ...