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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 1.3 Interaction between Land Surface and Regional Climate (Project)
During the last decades, humans have changed the land surface more rapidly and extensively than they have done in any period before. Both anthropogenic impact and climate variations have led to changes in vegetation and land cover. These changes also alter biogeophysical properties of the land surface such as albedo, Leaf Area Index (LAI) and surface roughness and can thus significantly influence...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.1 Remote sensing based analysis of Land Cover and Land Use Change pathways and drivers (Project)
This research addresses a need to provide a better quantitative understanding of how the Southern Sudanian savanna has been actually changing under the combined impact of human induced land use, as a coupling factor of the SES, and climate change impacts. Population growth and expansions of settlements in the Southern Sudanian savanna lead to an increasing demand in agricultural products and land...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.2 Rangeland monitoring for land use management and adaptation (Project)
Grazing systems are among the most important components of regional land use systems in West Africa. The understanding of their resilience and their adaptation to changing climate conditions is of crucial importance for the livelihood of rural people in the region. However, current grazing systems feature different degrees of adaptation to climate. In our approach, forage quality and quantity are...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.3 Adapting to water scarcity, uncertainty, and the effect of changing climate patterns – coping strategies and their impacts (Project)
The WP ‘Adapting to water scarcity, uncertainty, and the effect of changing climate patterns – coping strategies and their impacts’ takes a landscape approach to water scarcity and looks at how water resources in valleys can provide a solution to improve the resilience of the SES towards the effects of climate change. In the Sudan savanna zone, the uplands are extensively used for rainfed...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.4 Water Resources under Climate and Land Use Change (Project)
Water is one of the key resources for agricultural production and daily life. Water availability - influenced by climate and land use - is therefore of outstanding importance. Any environmental analysis requires information on the dynamic of water fluxes and water storages at different scales which are usually computed by simulation models. Those models must be based on a thorough understanding...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.5 Soil carbon dynamics, soil fertility and soil degradation under climate and land use change (Project)
Soils play a crucial role in agricultural and natural systems. They provide the fundamental background for plant production and ecosystem services. Soil quality (fertility, soil carbon content (SOC), soil properties) is severely affected by climate and land use change as turnover rates depend on temperature and soil moisture, and land management directly influences soil properties. Soil...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.6 Status of biodiversity as Indicator for Ecosystem Resilience in West Africa (Project)
This WP aims to evaluate spatially explicit the status of biodiversity at landscape level and use this as an indicator for ecosystem resilience in West Africa. The spatial distribution of plant species richness as a proxy for biodiversity is statistically modelled applying different modeling approaches based on species distribution data. Moreover, the actual status of habitats and their potential...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.7 Biodiversity-related ecosystem service provision in managed landscapes (Project)
Sudanian savannas comprise a vast mosaic of near-natural savanna and woodland habitats of widely differing size, utilized savannas, and converted and cultivated areas, the latter replacing original ecosystems rich in woody species with a diverse fauna. The woody vegetation and its associated fauna provide direct ESS for all daily needs, and indirect but eminently important ESS pertaining to soil...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 3.1 Climate and technology impact on the provision of food, feed and fiber from agroecosystems (Project)
Agricultural systems and in particular rural households based on subsistence agriculture have been spotted among the most susceptible human groups to climate fluctuations and climate change. Agricultural activities generate about one third of the West African GDP and are responsible of most exports and involve up to 70% of the population. Thus, there is a need to assess the impact of climate...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 3.2 Economic Evaluation of Farming Systems (Project)
'Economic Evaluation of Farming Systems' focuses on the climate change derived threats to the welfare of poor smallholders and rural communities: lacking alternative income sources, restricted market access, and limited assets; location of farm-households within different agro-ecological zones, which determines on one hand their cropping decisions, but also the magnitude and quality of changes in...
Funding period: 2012 - 2016
