Oforo Didas Kimaro- Dr. Engineering technology; Dr. rer. nat.
- Researcher at Technische Universität Dresden
Oforo Didas Kimaro
- Dr. Engineering technology; Dr. rer. nat.
- Researcher at Technische Universität Dresden
Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation
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Introduction
Oforo Didas Kimaro (PhD, Dr. rer. nat.) A Researcher, Landscape ecologist, and Consultant in Sustainable landscape interfaces management and natural resources conservation (focusing on combining Earth observation, socio-economic surveys, and spatial modelling to evaluate ecosystem services bundles in Mountainous landscapes). Currently works at the Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology (TU-Dresden, Germany) and Division Forest, Nature and Landscape (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Belgium).
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October 2020 - present
Technische Universität Dresden and KU Leuven
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- Researcher
October 2020 - January 2025
Publications
Publications (9)
Several studies in Tanzania focus on land use/cover change (LULC) at coarse scale and without considering the adjoining (interface) landscapes i.e. landscape link community farming systems and forest/nature reserves. In the Eastern Arc Mountains in particular, LULC change that confront the interface between surrounding community landscape and natur...
The scalarity of the interface concept is explored to the fullest in two projections that focus on cross-scale interactions in the Global South. The reflection by Didas Kimaro, Oforo Kimaro and Hubert Gulinck illustrates how interface categories help highlight natural and man-made landscape conditions that are important to local communities and env...
Mountainous environments are particularly vulnerable to land degradation due to steep slopes, fragile soils, increasing population, severe shortages of pastureland, and climate change. This situation results in a loss of ecosystem services (ES), which unequally affects vulnerable groups who rely on access to ES closer to their homes. This study ass...
Indigenous agroforestry systems in tropical mountainous environments provide crucial ecosystem services, but these ecosystems are also facing some challenges. A loss of diversity and native tree species in the overstory layer has been a growing concern in agroforestry worldwide, yet the drivers behind it remain inadequately understood. We hypothesi...
Handheld optical sensor was used to measure canopy reflectance at red region (656 nm) and near-infrared region (774 nm) to generate NDVI data for monitoring rice productivity under soil amendment with combinations of fertilizers at two levels of water regime in smallholder Irrigation Scheme, in Lower Moshi, North Tanzania. The study was carried out...
Handheld Optical Sensor was used to measure canopy reflectance at red region (656 nm) and near-infrared region (774 nm) to generate NDVI data for monitoring rice productivity under soil amendment with combinations of fertilizers at two levels of water regime in smallholder Irrigation Scheme, in Lower Moshi, Tanzania. The study was carried out in an...
A study was conducted at Mshelemle hamlet in Magamba Village, Lushoto District, Tanzania to establish the perception of communities in ranking the importance of benefits derived from tree, shrub and herbaceous lines ecosystem. Four types of vegetation edge ecosystem were examined, namely tree line, herbaceous line, shrubs along road segments and fi...
A study was conducted at Mshelemle hamlet in Magamba Village, Lushoto District, Tanzania to establish the perception of communities in ranking the importance of benefits derived from tree, shrub and herbaceous lines ecosystem. Four types of vegetation edge ecosystem were examined, namely tree line, herbaceous line, shrubs along road segments and fi...
