Publications: Gert Nyberg no. of citations: 3562
h-index: 22
1. Bapfakurera, E. N., Kilawe, C. J., Valens, U., Uwihirwe, J., Nyagatere, G., Nduwamungu, J. and Nyberg, G. The challenges associated with firewood supply and analysis of fuel quality parameters of the tree species used as firewood in Rwanda. Biomass and Bioenergy. 190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2024.107408
2. Uwingabire, S., S.A.O. Chamshama, S.A.O., Nduwamungu, J., and Nyberg, G. 2024. French Bean Production as Influenced by Biochar and Biochar Blended Manure Application in Two Agro-Ecological Zones of Rwanda. Agronomy 14 (9), 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14092020
3. Uwingabire, S., S.A.O. Chamshama, S.A.O., Nyberg, G. and Nduwamungu, J., 2024. Gasifier use for cooking and biochar production by smallholder farmers in Rwanda. Biofuels. https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2024.2381164
4. Uwingabire, S., Nduwamungu, J., Nyberg, G. and S.A.O. Chamshama, S.A.O. 2024. Farmer-managed French bean biochar trials in Rwanda: Effects on yield and soil nutrients. Rwanda Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 3:2, 106-122. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/rjeas/article/view/279087
5. García-López, N., Bargúes-Tobella, A., Goodman, R. C., Uwingabire, S., Sundberg, C., Boman, C. and Nyberg, G. 2024. An integrated agroforestry-bioenergy system for enhanced energy and food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Ambio 53, 1492-1504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02037-0
6. Bapfakurera, E. N., Kilawe, C. J., Nduwamungu, J. and Nyberg, G. 2024. Fuelwood use and household appreciation of improved and traditional cookstoves in Rwanda. Biomass and Bioenergy 186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2024.107280
7. Bapfakurera, E. N., Kilawe, C. J., Nyberg, G. and Nduwamungu, J. 2024. Assessment of stocking, productivity, and aboveground biomass of tree species used as fuelwood in Rwanda's agricultural landscapes. Forest, Trees and People. 16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100552
8. Bapfakurera, E. N., Kilawe, C. J., Nyberg, G. and Nduwamungu, J. 2024. Bioenergy perspective in Rwanda: The potential of tree-based system in the agricultural landscape for fuelwood supply. Rwanda Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 3:1. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/rjeas/article/view/266766
9. Bostedt, G., Knutsson, P., Muricho, D., Mureithi, S., Wredle, E. and Nyberg, G. 2023. Adaptive pastoralists – Insights into local and regional patterns in livelihood adaptation choices among pastoralists in Kenya. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 13:26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-023-00290-8
10. Bulenga, G. B., Maliondo, S. M. S., Katani, J. Z. and Nyberg, G. 2023. Tree species diversity and edaphic factors associated with different land uses in tropical forest ecosystems, Tanzania.. Open Journal of Ecology. 13, 759-772. https://doi.org/10.4236/oje.2023.1310046
11. Lulandala, L., Bargués-Tobella, A., Masao, C.A., Nyberg, G. and Ilstedt, U. 2022. The size of clearings for charcoal production in miombo woodlands affect soil hydrological properties and soil organic carbon. Forest Ecology and Management 529: 12070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120701
12. Kätterer, T., Roobroek, D., Kimutai, G., Karltun, E., Nyberg, G., Sundberg, C. and Röing de Nowina, K. 2022. Maize grain yield responses to realistic biochar application rates on smallholder farms in Kenya. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 42:63, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-022-00793-5
13. Lulandala, L., Bargués-Tobella, A., Masao, C.A., Nyberg, G. and Ilstedt, U. 2021. Excessive livestock grazing overrides the positive effects of trees on infiltration capacity and modifies preferential flow in dry Miombo woodlands. Land Degradation and Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4149
14. Knutsson, P., Mureithi, S., Wredle, E. and Nyberg, G. 2021. Perspectives on enclosures in pastoralist drylands: From contradictory evidence to the formulation of innovative land management strategies. World Development Perspectives. 23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2021.100351
15. Bostedt, G., Mukoya, L., Muricho, D. and Nyberg, G. 2021. Saving and borrowing behavior among agropastoralists in West Pokot County, Kenya. Journal of International Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3560
16. Ruvuga, P.R., Wredle, E., Nyberg, G., Hussein, A.H., Masao, C.A., Selemani, I.S., Sangeda, A.Z., and Kronqvist, C. 2021. Evaluation of rangeland condition in miombo woodlands in eastern Tanzania in relation to season and distance from settlements. Journal of Environmental Management 290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112635
17. Dahlin, S., Mukangango, M., Naramabuye, F.X., Nduwamungu, J. and Nyberg, G. 2021. Effect of grass-diet and grass-legume-diet manure applied to planting holes on smallholder maize production in Rwanda. Field Crops Research 263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108057
18. Sundberg, C., Karltun, E., Gitau, J.K., Kätterer, T., Kimutai, G.M., Mahmoud, Y., Njenga, M., Nyberg, G., Roing de Nowina, K., Roobroeck D. and Sieber, P. 2020. Biochar from cookstoves reduces greenhouse gas emissions from smallholder farms in Africa. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 25:953–967. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-020-09920-7
19. Ruvuga, P.R., Wredle, E., Mwakaje, A., Selemani, I.S., Sangeda, A.Z., Nyberg, G., and Kronqvist, C. 2020. Indigenous rangeland and livestock management among pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in miombo woodlands, Eastern Tanzania. Rangeland Ecology & Management 73 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2019.11.005
20. Mukangango, M., Nduwamungu, J., Naramabuye, F.X., Nyberg, G. and Dahlin, S. 2020. Biomass production and nutrient content of three agroforestry tree species growing on an acid Anthropic Ferralsol under recurrent harvesting at different cutting heights. Agroforestry Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-019-00455-834
21. Mukangango, M., Nduwamungu, J., Naramabuye, F.X., Nyberg, G. and Dahlin, S. 2020. Supplementing grass-based cattle feeds with legume leaves and its effects on manure quality and value as a soil improver for an Anthropic Ferralsol in Rwanda. Experimental Agriculture, 1–12. https://doi:10.1017/S0014479720000101
22. Carvalho, R.L., Yadav, P., García-López, N., Lindgren, R., Nyberg, G., Diaz-Chavez, R., Upadhyayula, V.K.K., Boman, C. and Athanassiadis, D. 2020. Environmental Sustainability of Bioenergy Strategies in Western Kenya to Address Household Air Pollution. Energies, 13, 719; https://doi:10.3390/en13030719
23. Carvalho, R.L., Lindgren, R., García-López, N., Nyambane, A., Nyberg, G., Diaz-Chavez, R. and Boman, C. 2019. Household air pollution mitigation with integrated biomass/cookstove strategies in Western Kenya. Energy Policy 131 168-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.04.026
24. Nyberg, G., Mureithi, S.M., Muricho, D.M. and Ostwald, M. 2019. Enclosures as a land management tool for food security in African drylands. Journal of Land Use Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2019.1636147
25. Kätterer T., Roobroeck D., Andrén O., Kimutai G., Karltun E., Kirchmann H., Nyberg G., Vanlauwe B. and Röing de Nowina K. 2019. Biochar addition persistently increased soil fertility and yields in maiza-soybean rotations over 10 years in sub-humid regions of Kenya. Field Crops Research 235 18-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2019.02.015
26. Burian, A., Karanja, R., Wernersson, J.E.V., Egberth, M., Lokorwa, B. and Nyberg, G. 2019. A community-based evaluation of population growth and agro-pastoralist resilience in Sub-Saharan drylands. Environmental Science and Policy 92 323–330
27. Zomboudré, G., Ilstedt, U., Gnakambary, Z., Nyberg, G., Somé, . Guinko, S. and Malmer, A. 2018. Agroforestry Trees Improve Water Infiltrability in Semi-arid Tropical Parklands in Burkina Faso. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology A. 8: 262-273.
28. Rossi M., Rembold F., Bolognesi M., Nori ., Mureithi M. and Nyberg G. 2018. Mapping land enclosures and vegetation cover changes in the surroundings of Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps with very high resolution satellite imagery. Land Degradation & Development.
29. Odour C.O., Karanja N.K., Onwonga R.N., Mureithi S.M., Pelster D. and Nyberg G. 2018. Enhancing soil organic carbon, particulate organic carbon and microbial biomass in semi-arid rangeland using pasture enclosures. BMC Ecology 18:45
30. Odour C.O., Karanja N.K., Onwonga R.N., Mureithi S.M., Pelster D. and Nyberg G. 2018. Pasture enclosures increase soil carbon dioxide flux rates in Semi-arid Rangeland, Kenya. Carbon Balance and Management 13:24
31. Egberth M., Nyberg G., Næsset E., Gobakken T., Mauya E., Malimbwi R., Katani J., Chamuya N., Bulenga G. and Olsson H. 2017. Combining airborne laser scanning and Landsat data for modeling of soil carbon and tree biomass in Tanzanian Miombo Woodlands. Carbon Balance and Management, DOI 10.1186/s13021-017-0076-y
32. Ilstedt U., Bargués Tobella, A., Bazié H.R., Bayala, J., Verbeeten E., Nyberg G., Sanou J., Benegas L., Murdiyarso D., Laudon L., Sheil D. & Malmer A. 2016. Intermediate tree cover can maximize groundwater recharge in the seasonally dry tropics. Scientific Reports 6:21930 DOI: 10.1038/srep21930
33. Bostedt, G., Hörnell, A., Nyberg, G. 2016. Agroforestry Extension and Dietary Diversity - An Analysis of the Importance of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in West Pokot, Kenya. Food Security, 8(1) 271-284.
34. Bargués Tobella A., Hasselquist N.J., Baizié H.R. Nyberg G., Laudon H., Bayala J. and Ilstedt U. 2016. Strategies trees use to overcome seasonal water limitation in an agroforestry system in semiarid West Africa. Ecohydrology. DOI 10.1002/eco.1808
35. Wairore J.N., Mureithi S.M., Wasonga O.V and Nyberg G. 2015. Characterization of Enclosure Management Regimes and Factors Influencing their Choice among Agropastoralists in North-Western Kenya. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 5:14
36. Wairore J.N., Mureithi S.M., Wasonga O.V and Nyberg G. 2015. Enclosing the commons: reasons for the adoption and adaptation of enclosures in the arid and semi‑arid rangelands of Chepareria, Kenya. Springer Plus 4:95 DOI 10.1186/s40064-015-1390-z
37. Wairore J.N., Mureithi S.M., Wasonga O.V and Nyberg G. 2015. Benefits derived from rehabilitating a degraded semi-arid rangeland in private enclosures in West Pokot County, Kenya. Land Degradation & Development.
38. Traoré S., Ouattara K., Ilstedt U., Schmidt M., Thiombiano A., Malmer A. and Nyberg G. 2015. Effects of and degradation on carbon and nitrogen pools in two soil types of a semi-arid landscape in West Africa. Geoderma 241–242 330–338
39. Nyberg, G., Knutsson, P., Ostwald, M., Öborn, I., Wredle, E., Otieno, D.J., Mureithi, S., Mwangi, P., Said, M.Y., Jirström, M., Grönvall, A., Wernersson, J., Svanlund, S., Saxer, L., Geutjes, L., Karmebäck, V.N., Wairore, J.N., Wambui, R., De Leeuw, J., Malmer, A. 2015. Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya: Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 5:25.
40. Karmebäck VN, Wairore JN, Jirström M and Nyberg G. 2015. Assessing gender roles in a changing landscape: diversified agro-pastoralism in drylands of West Pokot, Kenya. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 5:21
41. Nyberg G., Bargués Tobella A., Kinyangi J. and Ilstedt U. 2012 Soil property changes over a 120-yr chronosequence from forest to agriculture in western Kenya. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 2085-2094. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-2085-2012
42. Ouattara, K., Ouattara, B., Nyberg, G., Sédogo, M. and Malmer A., 2008. Effect of ploughing frequency and compost on soil aggregate stability in cotton-maize rotation system in Burkina Faso. Soil Use and Management.
43. Gnankambary, Z., Ilstedt, U., Nyberg, G., Hien, V. and Malmer, A., 2008. Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of soil microbial respiration in tropical agroforestry parklands in the south-Sudanese zone of Burkina Faso: The effects of tree canopy and fertilization. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40: 350-359.
44. Gnakambary, Z., Bayala, J., Malmer, A, Nyberg, G. and Hien, V., 2008. Decomposition and nutrient release from mixed plant litters of contrasting quality in an agroforestry parkland in the south-Sudanese zone of Burkina Faso. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 82: 1-13.
45. Teklay, T., Nordgren, A., Nyberg, G. And Malmer, A., 2007. Carbon mineralization of leaves from four Ethiopian agroforestry species under laboratory and field conditions. Applied Soil Ecology, 35(1): 193-202.
46. Ouattara, K., Ouattara, B., Nyberg, G., Sédogo, M. and Malmer A., 2007. Ploughing frequency and compost application effects on soil infiltrability in a cotton-maize rotation system on a Ferric Luvisol and a Ferric Lixisol in Burkina Faso. Soil and Tillage Research, 95: 288-297.
47. Teklay, T., Nyberg, G. and Malmer, A., 2006. Effects of organic inputs from agroforestry species and urea on crop yield and soil properties at Wondo Genet, Ethiopia. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 75: 163-173.
48. Ståhl, L., Nyberg, G., Ekblad, E., Högberg, P. and Buresh, R.J. 2002. Effects of planted tree fallows on soil nitrogen dynamics, above-ground and root biomass, N2-fixation and subsequent maize crop productivity in Kenya. Plant and Soil. 243: 103-117
49. Nyberg, G., Ekblad, E., Buresh, R.J. and Högberg, P. 2002. Short-term patterns of carbon and nitrogen mineralisation in a fallow field amended with green manures from agroforestry trees. Biol Fertil Soils. 36: 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-002-0484-2
50. Ekblad, A., Nyberg, G. and Högberg, P. 2002. 13C-discrimination during microbial respiration of added C3-, C4- and 13C-labelled sugars to a C3-forest soil. Oecoogia 131: 245-249.
51. Högberg, P., Nordgren, A., Buchmann, N., Tayor, A. F. S., Ekblad, A., Högberg, M.N., Nyberg, G., Ottosson-Löfvenius, M and Read, D. 2001. Large-scale forest girdling shows that current photosynthesis drives soil respiration. Nature 411: 789-792
52. Nyberg, G., Ekblad, E., Buresh, R.J. and Högberg, P. 2000. Respiration from C3 plant green manure added to a C4 plant carbon dominated soil. Plant and soil. 218: 83-89
53. Nyberg, G. and Högberg P. 1995. Effects of young agroforestry trees on soils in on-farm situations in western Kenya. Agroforestry Systems 32: 45-52.
