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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-3789-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-3789-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model evaluation paper
| 
24 Jun 2021
Model evaluation paper |
| 24 Jun 2021
| 24 Jun 2021
Modeling gas exchange and biomass production in West African Sahelian and Sudanian ecological zones
Jaber Rahimi
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU),
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Expedit Evariste Ago
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Appliquée, Faculté des Sciences
Agronomiques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Université de Liège Gembloux
Agro-Bio Tech, Gembloux, Belgium
Augustine Ayantunde
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso
Sina Berger
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU),
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Regional Climate and Hydrology Research
Group, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Jan Bogaert
Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Université de Liège Gembloux
Agro-Bio Tech, Gembloux, Belgium
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU),
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya
Bernard Cappelaere
HydroSciences Montpellier, Université Montpellier, IRD, CNRS,
Montpellier, France
Jean-Martial Cohard
IRD, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
Jérôme Demarty
HydroSciences Montpellier, Université Montpellier, IRD, CNRS,
Montpellier, France
Abdoul Aziz Diouf
Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Dakar, Senegal
Ulrike Falk
Satellite-based Climate Monitoring, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD),
Offenbach, Germany
Edwin Haas
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU),
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Pierre Hiernaux
Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), CNRS, IRD, UPS,
Toulouse, France
Pastoralisme Conseil, Caylus, France
David Kraus
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU),
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Olivier Roupsard
CIRAD, UMR Eco&Sols, BP1386, CP18524, Dakar, Senegal
Eco&Sols, Université Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, IRD,
Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
LMI IESOL, Centre IRD-ISRA de Bel Air, BP1386, CP18524, Dakar,
Senegal
Clemens Scheer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU),
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Amit Kumar Srivastava
Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of
Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Torbern Tagesson
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management,
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund
University, Lund, Sweden
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and
Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU),
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Data sets
Modelling Gas Exchange and Biomass Production in West African Sahelian and Sudanian Ecological Zones Jaber Rahimi, Expedit Evariste Ago, Augustine Ayantunde, Jan Bogaert, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Bernard Cappelaere, Jérôme Demarty, Abdoul Aziz Diouf, Ulrike Falk, Edwin Haas, Pierre Hiernaux, David Kraus, Olivier Roupsard, Clemens Scheer, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Torbern Tagesson, and Rüdiger Grote https://doi.org/10.35097/437
Model code and software
LandscapeDNDC (v1.30.4) Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Rüdiger Grote, Edwin Haas, Ralf Kiese, Steffen Klatt, and David Kraus https://doi.org/10.35097/438
Short summary
West African Sahelian and Sudanian ecosystems are important regions for global carbon exchange, and they provide valuable food and fodder resources. Therefore, we simulated net ecosystem exchange and aboveground biomass of typical ecosystems in this region with an improved process-based biogeochemical model, LandscapeDNDC. Carbon stocks and exchange rates were particularly correlated with the abundance of trees. Grass and crop yields increased under humid climatic conditions.
West African Sahelian and Sudanian ecosystems are important regions for global carbon exchange,...
