
Profiles
Mr Maarten Wynants
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
- PostDoc Research
Qualifications
- PhD in Physical Geography: University of Plymouth
- 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
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'Integrating land‐water‐people connectivity concepts across disciplines for co‐design of soil erosion solutions' Land Degradation & Development , DOI
2020 '‘Mind the Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions and Multi-Level Policies to Bridge the Governance Gap. An Example of Soil Erosion Action from East Africa' Land 9, (10) 352-352 , DOI Open access
2020 'Determining tributary sources of increased sedimentation in East-African Rift Lakes' Science of The Total Environment 717, 137266-137266 , DOI
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 Open access
2018 'Soil erosion in East Africa: an interdisciplinary approach to realising pastoral land management change' Environmental Research Letters 13, (12) , DOI Open access
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 Open access
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
'Determining tributary sources of increased sedimentation in East-African Rift Lakes using a combination of sediment tracing and radioactive dating' , DOI