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Biophysical effects of land cover changes in West Africa

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dc.creatorKunstmann, Haraldspa
dc.creatorGyamfi, Charlesspa
dc.creatorTraore, Boubaspa
dc.creatorOgunjobi, Kehinde Ospa
dc.creatorAppiah-Adjei, Emmanuel Kspa
dc.creatorAmekudzi, Leonard Kspa
dc.creatorManevski, Kirilspa
dc.creatorBliefernicht, Janspa
dc.creatorQuesada, Benjamin Raphaelspa
dc.creatorSy, Souleymanespa
dc.creatorYahaya Seydou, Abdel Nassirouspa
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-21T16:34:35Z
dc.date.available2025-07-21T16:34:35Z
dc.date.created2025-07-01spa
dc.date.issued2025-07-01spa
dc.description.abstractAbstract West Africa is undergoing rapid agricultural intensification driven by population growth, leading to significant anthropogenic land use and land cover change (LCC), including both deforestation and afforestation. These changes can profoundly affect the regional climate system by altering the surface energy balance, moisture fluxes, and atmospheric circulation, potentially exacerbating the vulnerability of human, ecological, and economic systems. Despite the ability of climate models to simulate LCC impacts, considerable uncertainties remain, particularly in simulations of precipitation and temperature responses. This study provides the first multidisciplinary systematic review of LCC impacts in West Africa. Data from 26 selected publications were eventually synthesized from an initial pool of nearly 6000 studies. Results indicate that deforestation generally contributes to regional warming, with significant historical temperature increases of +0.26 ± 0.12 ?C and projected increases of +0.88 ± 0.25 ?C under the future scenarios. Conversely, afforestation could have significantly cooled the climate, lowering temperatures by ?0.24 ± 0.14 ?C historically and ?0.22 ± 0.14 ?C in future scenarios, without even accounting for carbon sequestration. Deforestation decreases regional precipitation by 80 ± 58 mm yr?1 historically and ?55 ± 102 mm yr?1 in future scenarios, while large-scale afforestation could substantially reduce droughts with increased precipitation, averaging +40 ± 67 mm yr?1 historically and 80 ± 58 mm yr?1 in future scenarios. These results emphasize the need to integrate LCC-induced climate effects into land-based mitigation strategies, climate policy, and assessment frameworkseng
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/addbf4spa
dc.identifier.issn1748-9326spa
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/46046
dc.language.isoengspa
dc.publisherIOP Publishingspa
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Research Letters 20 (2025) 073001spa
dc.relation.urihttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/addbf4spa
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalspa
dc.rights.accesRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessspa
dc.rights.accesoAbierto (Texto Completo)spa
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/spa
dc.sourceEnvironmental Research Lettersspa
dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosariospa
dc.source.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocURspa
dc.subject.keywordSalud pública, medioambiental y laboraleng
dc.subject.keywordLand useeng
dc.subject.keywordLand cover changeeng
dc.subject.keywordDeforestationeng
dc.subject.keywordAfforestation, climate modeling, PRISMA, West Africaeng
dc.titleBiophysical effects of land cover changes in West Africaspa
dc.typearticlespa
dc.type.hasVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionspa
dc.type.spaArtículo de revisiónspa
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