Kevin Z. Mganga 🌾 (@kevinmganga) 's Twitter Profile
Kevin Z. Mganga 🌾

@kevinmganga

Rangelands | Ecological Restoration | Soils | Perennial Grasses | Landuse Change | 🌍 | 🇰🇪 | @UUCopernicus | @UniUtrecht

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Dr Karlijn van de Broek (@drkarlijn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 🎓 Are you interested in a 3-year postdoc position on how people perceive Nature-based solutions? 🌳 Join our team @UUCopernicus , to map mental models of Nature-Based Solutions, shaping policy and fostering biodiversity recovery across Europe! 💚 tinyurl.com/nbspostdoc

Kevin Z. Mganga 🌾 (@kevinmganga) 's Twitter Profile Photo

link.springer.com/article/10.100… Highlights - Forage value is a key factor in selecting grass species for pasture farming - Agropastoral farmers have an in-depth knowledge of the native grasses - Pasture farming is a pathway to sustainable forage production.

eLTER (@elter_europe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The #TARAFundingCall is open until 31 January 2025! All sites included in the eLTER PLUS (Transnational Access) TA and (Remote Access) RA Scheme are equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation to enable comprehensive ecological measurement and experimental campaigns. The

The #TARAFundingCall is open until 31 January 2025! All sites included in the eLTER PLUS (Transnational Access) TA and (Remote Access) RA Scheme are equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation to enable comprehensive ecological measurement and experimental campaigns. The
CIMMYT (@cimmyt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A big day for agriculture! The KALRO-CIMMYT Crops Research Facility, supported by the Crops to End Hunger Initiative, was inaugurated earlier today in Kiboko, Kenya. This hub will drive innovation & serve farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more citizen.digital/business/kibok…

A big day for agriculture! The KALRO-CIMMYT Crops Research Facility, supported by the Crops to End Hunger Initiative, was inaugurated earlier today in Kiboko, Kenya. This hub will drive innovation & serve farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa. 
Read more
citizen.digital/business/kibok…
Michaela A. Dippold (@michaeladippold) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#DBG2025: Deadline extended to 2nd Feb: An inspiring conference program accross soil science & beyond awaits you: tinyurl.com/ycxy5k7k. Apply for membership (tinyurl.com/bb48xwev) & submit your abstract (tinyurl.com/4aazzhud). We look forward to welcoming you in Tübingen

#DBG2025: Deadline extended to 2nd Feb: An inspiring conference program accross soil science & beyond awaits you: tinyurl.com/ycxy5k7k. Apply for membership (tinyurl.com/bb48xwev) & submit your abstract (tinyurl.com/4aazzhud). We look forward to welcoming you in Tübingen
Elizabeth le Roux (@megafauname) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This year we are again hosting the PhD course “Ecosystem roles of #megafauna in the past present and future”.🐎🦬🐘🫎🦌phd.nat.au.dk/for-phd-studen… Dates: 18–22 Aug 2025, & application deadline July15th! Don’t delay👀! Excited for you to join us! Aarhus Universitet Department of Biology, Aarhus University ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence

Mutez Ali Ahmed (@mutezahmed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are hiring! Looking for 2 motivated PhD students within a joint DFG public | @[email protected] project between Ulm University (research team of Steven Jansen) and my team at TU München Application deadline 30 April 2025 (CV and a cover letter ).

We are hiring!

Looking for 2 motivated PhD students within a joint <a href="/dfg_public/">DFG public | @dfg_public@wisskomm.social</a> project between Ulm University (research team of Steven Jansen) and my team at <a href="/TU_Muenchen/">TU München</a>

Application deadline 30 April 2025 (CV and a cover letter ).
Dr. Elise Gornish (@restorecal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hi Folks! Myself and the Barberan Lab at U of A are still looking for a PhD student to work on an NSF funded project exploring effects of fire and invasion on soil microbes. We are looking for someone to start in Fall! SOON! Email me if you are interested! PLS Repost! ESA SEEDS

Michaela A. Dippold (@michaeladippold) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#AMF are phenomenal: #Sorghum switches on its #mycorrhiza to mobilize and transport #nitrogen to the #root by enhancing AMF carbon supply, BUT only under #drought stress in low-fertile tropical #soils. Rozy Munene, Mutez Ali Ahmed, Kevin Z. Mganga 🌾, Callum frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

#AMF are phenomenal: #Sorghum switches on its #mycorrhiza to mobilize and transport #nitrogen to the #root by enhancing AMF carbon supply, BUT only under #drought stress in low-fertile tropical #soils. <a href="/MuneneRozi/">Rozy Munene</a>, <a href="/MutezAhmed/">Mutez Ali Ahmed</a>, <a href="/KevinMganga/">Kevin Z. Mganga 🌾</a>, <a href="/Callum_LabTue/">Callum</a> frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
Yakov Kuzyakov . . . priming Soil Science (@ykuzyakov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

💥NEW in Soil Biology & Biochemistry Journal 🧊Salinity reduces straw decomposition but primes #soil organic carbon loss doi.org/10.1016/j.soil… Free Link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kyqe8g13fGf2 #SoilOrganicMatter #primingeffect #CO2 #microbialbiomass #enzymes #straw #soilbacteria #13Clabeling #isotopes

💥NEW in <a href="/SoilBiolBiochem/">Soil Biology & Biochemistry Journal</a>
🧊Salinity reduces straw decomposition but primes #soil organic carbon loss
doi.org/10.1016/j.soil…

Free Link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kyqe8g13fGf2

#SoilOrganicMatter #primingeffect #CO2 #microbialbiomass #enzymes #straw #soilbacteria 
#13Clabeling #isotopes
Kevin Z. Mganga 🌾 (@kevinmganga) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Subsurface application of organic ameliorant in saline soils increases microbial necromass accumulation in mineral-associated organic matter link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Kevin Z. Mganga 🌾 (@kevinmganga) 's Twitter Profile Photo

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Measures aimed at conserving soil moisture or reducing soil water depletion are likely to enhance the benefits of intercropping in dryland cropping systems.

Kevin Z. Mganga 🌾 (@kevinmganga) 's Twitter Profile Photo

...great to see this #DeepRooted #AfricanSavannaGrasses study out unravelling key #RhizosphereTraits for #SeedBasedEcologicalRestoration 🌾🇰🇪

Michaela A. Dippold (@michaeladippold) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great news: the #MultiStress team passed the final review process - so we now search PhD candidates for #KAAD scholarships for our project on co-occuring biotic & abiotic stresses in maize. First, in our central project Uni Göttingen needs sbd. highly interested in #metabolomics

Great news: the #MultiStress team passed the final review process - so we now search PhD candidates for #KAAD scholarships for our project on co-occuring biotic &amp; abiotic stresses in maize. First, in our central project <a href="/uniGoettingen/">Uni Göttingen</a> needs sbd. highly interested in #metabolomics
Michaela A. Dippold (@michaeladippold) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Please share and retweet - specifically across East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia), where we specifically search: #JobAlert, #AcadmicTwitter, #PhDPosition, #PhDOpportunity, #CallForApplications #GraduateResearch, #EastAfrica, #AfricaResearch, #Scholarship, #AcademicJobs

Please share and retweet - specifically across East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia), where we specifically search: 
#JobAlert, #AcadmicTwitter, #PhDPosition, #PhDOpportunity, #CallForApplications #GraduateResearch, #EastAfrica, #AfricaResearch, #Scholarship, #AcademicJobs
Michaela A. Dippold (@michaeladippold) 's Twitter Profile Photo

and now after subproject 1 the next #JobAlert: SP2 of #MultiStress Uni Göttingen will offer a KAAD-funded #PhDopportunity for an East African scholar interested in ecophysiological stress respons in #maize using multi-spectral imaging Take your chance and apply #AcademicTwitter

and now after subproject 1 the next #JobAlert: SP2 of #MultiStress <a href="/uniGoettingen/">Uni Göttingen</a>  will offer a KAAD-funded #PhDopportunity for an East African scholar interested in ecophysiological stress respons in #maize using multi-spectral imaging
Take your chance and apply #AcademicTwitter
Soils and Climate Change Group (@soilsclimate) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#Paperalert Different effects of continuous-cover and rotation forest management on soil organic carbon stabilization in a boreal Norway spruce forest. Published #OpenAccess in #ForEcolManag sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#Paperalert  Different effects of continuous-cover and rotation forest management on soil organic carbon stabilization in a boreal Norway spruce forest. Published #OpenAccess in #ForEcolManag sciencedirect.com/science/articl…