Scenario-based impacts of land use and climate change on land and water degradation from the meso to regional scale

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3152-3181

  Bossa, Aymar Y ^a,b   Diekkrüger, Bernd ^b   Agbossou, Euloge K ^c  

^a WASCAL (West Africa Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use)   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY CALAVI   (Benin)

Author keywords

Climate change; Land use change; Nutrient loss; Regionalization; Scaling; SWAT

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAND USE; NUTRIENTS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN; RUNOFF;

LAND-USE CHANGE; NUTRIENT LOSS; REGIONALIZATION; SCALING; SWAT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION GROWTH; REGIONALIZATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BENIN [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 84920918536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6103152     Document Type: Article

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