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The continent straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas, and is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. Africa covers a total land area of almost 30.2 million square kilometers. That's more than one-fifth of the world's land area...
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The Sahel and Sudan zones are the "harsh lands" of West Africa. These arid and semi-arid lands include parts of present day Senegal, Mali, Northern Ghana, Mauritania, Niger, Northern Benin, Upper Volta, Chad, and Northern Nigeria (Map 1)... EP Scott - 《African Studies Review》 被引量...
Land-use change is a direct driver of biodiversity loss, projection and future land use change often consider a topical issue in response to climate change. Yet few studies have projected land-use changes over Africa, owing to large uncertainties. We pro
This work is a first attempt to propose a map of the solar radiation climate in Africa. Such a map is very useful for preliminary assessment and modeling of solar energy systems. Following the approach adopted for Europe, a data set of monthly means of the daily clearness index has been as...
Insufficient growth during childhood is associated with poor health outcomes and an increased risk of death. Between 2000 and 2015, nearly all African countries demonstrated improvements for children under 5 years old for stunting, wasting, and underweig
Eastern Africa during the Middle–Late Pleistocene offered a wide range of habitats, and deposits of this age are rich in human fossils and archaeological remains1,2,3,4. Hypotheses seeking to explain links between climate and human origins are difficult to test because both climate records and ...
climate zones in other rice-producing regions of the world (Supplementary Table4). Our study did not consider the negative impact of climate change on crop yield, either directly through changes in temperature and precipitation or indirectly via pest and disease outbreaks35, as well as on the ...
Location map of Ethiopia administrative regions, the three study districts and agricultural research centres Full size image Climate characteristics Bako, Melkassa and Hawassa stations are characterized by a bimodal rainy season with short rains (small rainy season) in March and April, and a main rai...