Download or read book Vegetation Dynamics in Oueme Basin Benin West Africa written by Zhixin Deng and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land use in Benin has been changed enormously since 20 years. The farming systems in the Oueme Basin are experiencing an ongoing intensifying process. Balancing the inherent trade-offs between immediate human needs and ecosystem capacity, needs comprehensive knowledge about ecosystem functions. To test the possible feedbacks between vegetation, precipitation and other environmental driving forces empirically, a new quantitative vegetation appraisal method was developed. Thus, the temporal and spatial vegetation dynamics of the whole Oueme Basin in Benin, West-Africa were reconstructed. The newly defined eco-volume and bio-volume concepts were used as alternative vegetation indicators in comparison with the standard biomass indicators. That portion of precipitation variability, originating specifically from vegetation variability, was defined as eco-precipitation. The in situ measured agro-ecological and farming system parameters of the three major vegetation types were used to validate the agricultural statistics and the satellite land cover data. Other available datasets comprising annual precipitation, vegetative duration coefficient and population density were adapted to comparable time and spatial spans, and eventually analysed together with the reconstructed vegetation dynamics. The feedback between vegetation and precipitation was evaluated at different spatial scales. To detect possible future trends, static regional scenarios of precipitation in relation to eco-volume in 2004, as well as combined temporal and spatial scenarios of bio-volume in relation to precipitation from1987 to 2025 have been simulated.

Download or read book Vegetation Dynamics in Oueme Basin Benin West Africa written by Zhixin Deng and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Vegetation Dynamics in West Africa written by Kim Knauer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modeling of Vegetation Dynamics and Its Contribution to the Water Balance in Semi arid Lands of West Africa written by Lazare Tia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vegetation Dynamics Changing Ecosystems and Human Responsibility written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegetation Dynamics, Changing Ecosystems and Human Responsibility provides an overview of vegetation dynamics, which is the science of natural, near-natural, and human-influenced changes in vegetation over time and space. We can find chapters about almost every viewpoint of this very diverse segment of our science and in connection with almost every main type of terrestrial ecosystem.

Download or read book Rangeland Vegetation Dynamics in Africa During 1982 2015 written by Francesco D'Adamo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Long Term Vegetation Dynamics of African Savannas at a Landscape Level written by Aristides Moustakas and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Late Quarternary Montane Vegetation Dynamics in Bwindi impenetrable Forest Central Africa written by Robert Marchant and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vegetation of Africa written by Frank White and published by Bernan Press(PA). This book was released on 1983 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Technical report and maps of the vegetation (plants) of Africa - covers geology and physiography, climate and plant growth, soils, animals, fire, land utilization and nature conservation; discusses a regional level approach to classification, mapping units, etc. Bibliography, index of plant names.

Download or read book Vegetation Ecology of a Woodland savanna Mosaic in Central Benin West Afrika written by Bettina Orthmann and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plant Ecology in West Africa written by G. W. Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1986-10-30 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together authoritative and up-to-date accounts of the principal types of vegetation found in West Africa and describes the main processes that occur within them. Deals with such varied topics as the complex inter-relationships between plants and animals, the breeding systems found in West African plants, the structure and dynamics of forest, savanna, desert, coastal and montane vegetation, and the urgent need to conserve this natural environment.

Download or read book The Vegetation and Soils of Africa written by Homer LeRoy Shantz and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Biodiversity of Vegetation and Flora in Tropical Africa written by Luís Catarino and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African ecosystems comprise a wealthy repository of biodiversity, with a high proportion of native and endemic plant species, which makes them biologically unique and providers of a wide range of ecosystem services. A large part of African populations, in both rural and urban areas, depend on plants for their survival and welfare, but many ecosystems are being degraded, mostly due to the growing impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic actions and environmental problems. Loss of habitat and biodiversity affects livelihoods, water supply and food security and reduces the resilience of ecosystems in the African continent. The knowledge about the great African plant and ecosystem diversity, and the structure, composition and processes involved in vegetation dynamics, is crucial to promote their sustainable use and to preserve one of the most understudied regions in the world. This Special Issue aimed to gather contributions that update and improve such knowledge.

Download or read book The Vegetation and Soils of Africa written by Homer L. Shantz and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: