Annual Report of Africa RISING Project funded subprojects carried out by CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI): Reporting Period, July-December 2012 [PDF]
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Active Root Zone Storage Revealed From Hybrid Machine Learning
Abstract Water within the root zone regulates water, energy, and carbon exchanges at the land‐atmosphere interface, yet the dynamically active portion of subsurface water that ecosystems mobilize for evapotranspiration (ET) remains unclear, because it represents only part of the total subsurface storage.
Georgios Blougouras +9 more
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Agricultural expansion and mining drive forest loss in Ghana despite declining deforestation rates: Evidence from a national-scale assessment. [PDF]
Addo-Fordjour P +6 more
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The 2023–2024 El Niño as a Preview of Future Tropical Forest Climate
Abstract Tropical forests are an important component of the global carbon cycle. Increasingly frequent droughts and heatwaves are undermining their resilience, with far‐reaching impacts on local livelihoods and on regional and global hydrological cycles.
Johanna Van Passel +8 more
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Soil Moisture Thresholds for the Temperature Sensitivity of Ecosystem Respiration. [PDF]
Zhang Q +5 more
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Source or Sink? Precipitation Shapes Future Terrestrial Carbon Uptake in Australia
Abstract Nature‐based CO2 removal must deliver sequestration beyond background terrestrial uptake and be resilient to future climate change. Regional‐scale simulations of future terrestrial carbon cycles are needed to establish baselines, map spatial variation in carbon uptake, and guide placement of nature‐based carbon removal projects.
Alison C. Bennett +5 more
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Conservation Planning for Promoting Ecosystem Service Provisioning Outside Protected Area Networks. [PDF]
Tarimo FG, Moyo F, Kelly C, Munishi LK.
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Abstract Predicting future vegetation patterns from climate change projections is central to assessing ecological impacts, but most existing climate–vegetation models predict coarse biome classes rather than fine‐grained land cover. Here we develop a constrained regression approach that predicts local land cover composition (LLCC)—the fractional cover ...
T. F. Stepinski
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Total Biomass in the Neotropical Savanna Domain: Stock Estimation and Modeling with Edaphic Variables. [PDF]
Oliveira KN +10 more
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Abstract Land surface models are fundamental for simulating coupled carbon, water and energy exchanges in Earth system models, yet their performance remains poorly constrained across Africa's diverse hydroclimatic gradients. We evaluate the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) using eddy covariance observations from 16 flux towers spanning major
Enimhien F. Akhabue +21 more
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