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. A station of the SNO INDAAF) and that of SNO INDAAF.
AMMA-CATCH monitoring of the Ferlo site began in 2013 with a soil moisture monitoring. This is currently the only AMMA-CATCH (…)

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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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