Desertification, resilience, and re-greening in the African Sahel – a matter of the observation period?

Since the turn of the millennium various scientific publications have been discussing a re-greening of the Sahel after the 1980s drought mainly based on coarse-resolution satellite data. However, the author's own field studies suggest that the situation is far more complex and that both para...

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Main Author: H. Kusserow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-12-01
Series:Earth System Dynamics
Online Access:https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/8/1141/2017/esd-8-1141-2017.pdf