The West African Vegetation Database
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The Role of Vegetation in the Dynamics of West African Monsoons
The focus of this paper is the role of meridional distribution of vegetation in the dynamics of monsoons and rainfall over West Africa. A moist zonally symmetric atmospheric model coupled with a simple land surface scheme is developed to investigate these processes. Four primary experiments have been carried out to examine the sensitivity of West African monsoons to perturbations in the meridio...
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Many assumptions have been made about the nature and character of desertification in West Africa. This paper examines the history of this issue, reviews the current state of our knowledge concerning the meteorological aspects of desertification, and presents the results of a select group of analyses related to this question. The common notion of desertification is of an advancing “desert,” a ge...
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Figure S1. Flowchart illustrating the method for MODIS based woody cover estimations. Adapted and modified from Brandt et al., [1]. For a full description of the methodological workflow see [1].
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In order to study the signs of œstrus in the West African Dwarf goat, 28 non pregnant females younger than 24 months of age were used. Most of them (94.7%) had waggled the tail during heat. The frequency of micturition was higher in the presence of the male. The swelling of the vulva was observed in 68.4% of goats in heat. The cervico-vaginal mucus was significantly (P≤0.05) abundant and elasti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biodiversity & Ecology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1613-9801
DOI: 10.7809/b-e.00065