Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Abandoned Livestock Enclosures in Kenya

46 boma sites and 22 reference sites in Kenya were measured for N₂O fluxes and environmental variables. The dataset includes a summary of flux measurements and upscaled emission estimates based on a regression model relating flux to boma age. It was created by Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl and shared via paperswithcode.

Use Cases

• Modeling N₂O emissions from abandoned livestock enclosures based on site age and environmental variables.
• Analyzing the relationship between soil moisture, temperature, and N₂O flux in semi-arid savanna soils.
• Estimating regional greenhouse gas contributions from pastoralist livestock practices based on in-situ flux measurements.

Strengths

• Includes measurements from 46 distinct boma sites and 22 reference sites.
• Contains multiple environmental variables per site, including soil water content, temperature, and organic layer thickness.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl

Collection Method

In-situ N₂O flux measurements and environmental variable collection at field sites.

Geography

Seven semi-arid and arid savanna regions in Kenya