Profiles
Mr Maarten Wynants
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
PhD researcher
Qualifications
- Master in Biology: KU Leuven (Belgium)
- Bachelor in Biology: KU Leuven (Belgium)
Professional membership
Early career member of:
- European Geoscience Union
- British Ecological Society
- British Society of Soil Science
Research interests
I am interested in the effects of land use change on soil erosion dynamics and the accompanied declining ecosystem service provisions in East-Africa. Our research goal is to contribute to sustainable land management plans safeguarding food security, people's livelihoods and biodiversity. Some of the tools we use to reach these goals are GIS, geochemical fingerprinting, Compound specific stable isotopes and ecological assessments.
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2019
'Drivers of increased soil erosion in East Africa’s agro-pastoral
systems: changing interactions between the social, economic
and natural domains'
Regional Environmental Change
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change'
Environmental Research Letters
13,
(12)
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Pinpointing areas of increased soil erosion risk following land cover change in the Lake Manyara catchment, Tanzania'
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
71,
1-8
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Intra- and interspecific niche variation as reconstructed from stable isotopes in two ecologically different Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes'
Functional Ecology
31,
(7)
1482-1492
, DOI