Abstract/Overview Temporal rainfall variability phenomenon is the degree to which rainfall amounts change at a given area through time either from month to month, season to season or year to year in relation to long-term average. The associated extreme events such as increase in rainfall amounts or drought adversely affect agricultural production resulting in low yields. Rainfall in Mumias Sub County varies from season to season or year to years such that, between 1982 and 2012 Mumias experi...
Abstract/Overview Forest fragmentation occurs when large continuous forests are perforated by small holes or broken up into edges and smaller patches to form a non-perforated matrix of open spaces. Global researches have shown that primary attributes of the remnant forest fragment that may influence patterns of species richness include: fragment area, fragment isolation, fragment edge to interior ratio, and the fragment shape complexity. In Sub Saharan Africa, for example, high human populat...