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Ecosystem management can mitigate vegetation shifts induced byclimate change in West Africa
tThe welfare of people in the tropics and sub-tropics strongly depends on goods and services that savannaecosystems supply, such as food and livestock production, fuel wood, and climate regulation. Flows ofthese services ...
Relationships between soil seed banks and above-ground vegetation along a disturbance gradient in the W National Park trans-boundary biosphere reserve, West Africa
Aims
Vegetation succession depends on the availability of suitable propagules
in the soils, thus knowledge of soil seed banks is essential
for formulating effective strategies for restoring the vegetation of
degraded sites. ...
The effect of trees on preferential flow and soil infiltrability in an agroforestry parkland in semiarid Burkina Faso
Water scarcity constrains the livelihoods of millions of people in tropical drylands. Tree planting
in these environments is generally discouraged due to the large water consumption by trees, but this view
may neglect their ...
Cereal yield response to conservation agriculture practices in drylands of West Africa: A quantitative synthesis
To address the decline in crop productivity in the drylands ofWest Africa, many initiatives have focused on
combating soil degradation. Various practices including (1) parkland trees associated with crops, (2)
coppicing ...
Population structure and regeneration status of Vitellaria Paradoxa (C. F. Gaertner) under different land management regimes in Atacora department
Vitellaria paradoxa (shea) parklands are one of the major features of the Sudanian savannah. Besides the parklands importance in terms of provision of ecosystem services, they play a major role in satisfying household ...
Parklands for buffering climate risk and sustaining agricultural production in the Sahel of West Africa
In the Sahelian zone of West Africa, crops grown under a
discontinuous cover of scattered trees dominate many
landscapes and constitute the so-called parklands. These
systems reflect the ecological knowledge of the farmers ...
Perspectives in restoration: storage and pretreatments of seeds for better germination of Sudanian savanna-woodland species
Insufficient knowledge of the germination
ecology of local species is one of the main constraints to
restoration of degraded rural lands. We tested seeds from
fourteen Sudanian savanna species targeted for restoration
for ...
Inter- and intra-provenances variations in seed size and seedling characteristics of Khaya senegalensis A. Juss in Burkina Faso
Within- and between-provenance variations
in seed and seedling traits of Khaya senegalensis
A. Juss were studied at INERA in Burkina Faso.
Nursery grown seedlings from four provenances in
Burkina Faso were used for the ...
Rôle des feux de savane sur les caractéristiques biogéochimiques des sols en zone soudanienne du Burkina Faso
Les feux de brousse dont les effets dépendent aussi bien de leurs intensités ainsi que de leur saison
d’occurrence, sont considérés comme une perturbation écologique majeure des écosystèmes savanicoles.
L’objectif général ...
Participatory forest management in Burkina Faso: Members’ perception of performance
This study examines variations in the performance of participatory
forest management programs among four forest management
groups (FMGs) in southern Burkina Faso, and assesses the factors that
influence their members’ ...