Gufu Oba

Overview

Best Publications

• Herder Perceptions on Impacts of Range Enclosures, Crop Farming, Fire Ban and Bush Encroachment on the Rangelands of Borana, Southern Ethiopia

  Ayana Angassa;Ayana Angassa;Gufu Oba

  292
  Citations

• Relationships between biomass and plant species richness in arid-zone grazing lands

  Gufu Oba;Ole R. Vetaas;Nils C. Stenseth

  259
  Citations

• Bush cover and range condition assessments in relation to landscape and grazing in southern Ethiopia

  Gufu Oba;Eric Post;P.O. Syvertsen;N.C. Stenseth

  240
  Citations

• New Perspectives on Sustainable Grazing Management in Arid Zones of Sub-Saharan Africa

  Gufu Oba;Nils Chr. Stenseth;Walter J. Lusigi

  206
  Citations

• Effects of grazing pressure, age of enclosures and seasonality on bush cover dynamics and vegetation composition in southern Ethiopia.

  A. Angassa;G. Oba

  193
  Citations

• Effects of anthropogenic fire history on savanna vegetation in northeastern Namibia

  Asser Sheuyange;Gufu Oba;Robert B. Weladji

  191
  Citations

• Relating long-term rainfall variability to cattle population dynamics in communal rangelands and a government ranch in southern Ethiopia

  Ayana Angassa;Gufu Oba

  184
  Citations

• Assessments of landscape level degradation in southern Ethiopia: pastoralists versus ecologists

  G. Oba;D.G. Kotile

  172
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• Potential role of sacred groves in biodiversity conservation in Tanzania

  F.H. Mgumia;G. Oba

  170
  Citations

• An assessment of restoration of biodiversity in degraded high mountain grazing lands in northern Ethiopia

  D. T. Asefa;G. Oba;R. B. Weladji;J. E. Colman

  162
  Citations

• Use of indigenous ecological knowledge of the Maasai pastoralists for assessing rangeland biodiversity in Tanzania

  Arnold L. Mapinduzi;Gufu Oba;Robert B. Weladji;Jonathan E. Colman

  139
  Citations

• The effect of multiple droughts on cattle in Obbu, Northern Kenya

  Gufu Oba

  127
  Citations

• Harnessing pastoralists' indigenous knowledge for rangeland management: three African case studies

  Gufu Oba

  125
  Citations

• Herder knowledge of landscape assessments in arid rangelands in northern Tanzania

  G. Oba;L.M. Kaitira

  125
  Citations

• Environmental gradients in the Turkwel riverine forest, Kenya: Hypotheses on dam-induced vegetation change

  Jørn Stave;Gufu Oba;Nils Chr. Stenseth;Inger Nordal

  117
  Citations

• The role of area enclosures and fallow age in the restoration of plant diversity in northern Ethiopia

  Muluberhan Hailu Abebe;Gufu Oba;Ayana Angassa;Robert B. Weladji

  100
  Citations

• Effects of management and time on mechanisms of bush encroachment in southern Ethiopia

  Ayana Angassa;Gufu Oba

  95
  Citations

• Traditional Ecological Knowledge of a Riverine Forest in Turkana, Kenya: Implications for Research and Management

  Jørn Stave;Gufu Oba;Inger Nordal;Nils Chr Stenseth

  91
  Citations

• Sub‐saharan desertification and productivity are linked to hemispheric climate variability

  Gufu Oba;Eric Post;Nils C. Stenseth

  80
  Citations

• Is Poverty Driving Borana Herders in Southern Ethiopia to Crop Cultivation

  Boku Tache;Gufu Oba

  75
  Citations

• COMPENSATORY GROWTH OF THE AFRICAN DWARF SHRUB INDIGOFERA SPINOSA FOLLOWING SIMULATED HERBIVORY

  Gufu Oba;Zelalem Mengistu;Nils Chr. Stenseth

  67
  Citations