Background: Land degradation is a major challenge facing the world today, with devastating effects particularly among communities inhabiting semi-arid rangelands who are more directly dependent on natural resources. Over years, indigenous grasses have provided multiple economic, ecosystem and cultural benefits for many in Kenya. However, they increasingly experienced declining abundance, divers...

Estimates of species’ ranges can inform many aspects biodiversity research and conservation-management decisions. Many practical applications need high-precision range estimates that are sufficiently reliable to use as input data in downstream applications. One solution has involved expert-generated maps reflect on-the-ground field information implicitly capture various processes may limit a ge...