Rainfall variability and vegetation dynamics in the Mauritanian Sahel

Climate Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-81

  Ahmedou, O C A ^a,c   Nagasawa, R ^b   Osman, A E ^a   Hattori, K ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Institut Supérior d'Enseignement Technologique   (Mauritania)

Author keywords

Ecosystems; Mauritania; NDVI; Rainfall records; Tendency

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOW OF WATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; VEGETATION;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL ZONES; GLOBAL INVENTORIES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERANNUAL; LAND DEGRADATION; MANN-KENDALL TEST; MAURITANIA; NDVI; NDVI TIME SERIES; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RAINFALL RECORDS; RAINFALL TRENDS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SENEGAL RIVER; TENDENCY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVENTORY; LAND DEGRADATION; NDVI; PATCHINESS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RANGELAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; MAURITANIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 67549138570     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00776     Document Type: Article

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