The Ferlo site, in a north-Sahelian climate, is located in a region dedicated mainly to pastoralism, comparable to that of the Gourma mesosite (Mali). The instrumented site is located in the "Centre de Recherches Zootechniques de Dahra" (CRZ), belonging to the "Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles" (ISRA). Since 2002, the Institute of Geography of Copenhagen (Denmark), the University of Lund (Sweden) and the Technical Institute of Karlsruhe (Germany) have instrumented the site to (…)

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The Niakhar site is located in central Senegal, in a Sahelian climate. Founded in 1962 in a rural area 150 km from Dakar, in Sereer country, the Niakhar observatory is the oldest population observatory in Africa still in operation (Delaunay et al., 2020). Since its inception, it has monitored the health, demographic, social and economic status of more than two generations. Since 2018, a long-term Collaborative Observatory on agroforestry ecosystem services (food security, GHG fluxes), has (…)

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