Zinc (Zn) is increasingly recognized as an essential trace element in the human diet that
mediates a plethora of health conditions, including immune responses to infectious …

Soil carbon stock research has gained prominence in environmental studies, especially
given its significance as one of the largest terrestrial carbon reservoirs, particularly amidst …

Recent climate projections have shown that the distribution of organisms in island biotas is
highly affected by climate change. Here, we present the result of the analysis of niche …

In this study, the spatial prediction performances of Local Polynomial Interpolation (LPI) and
Experimental Bayesian Kriging (EBK) were compared. Soil pH, lime content, electrical …

With the scarcity of observed data, the use of pedotransfer functions (PTFs) to calculate soil
hydrological properties has gained popularity. A survey of the literature reveals that most of …

Zinc (Zn) is increasingly recognized as an essential trace element in the human diet that
mediates a plethora of health conditions, including immune responses to infectious …

I thank my supervisors Prof. Joseph Onyango Gweyi and Dr. Shadrack Ngene for their
unfailing guidance during proposal development, field, data analysis, and thesis writing. It …