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Nov 15, 2023 · The Sahel is a typical agro-pastoral ecotone, a semi-arid transitional zone extending from east to west between the tropical savanna and the Sahara Desert, characterized by a fragile and sensitive ecological environment (Le Houerou, 1980). The Sahel spans 11 countries and is located between 17.55°W-47.96°E and 3.39°N-27.3°N (Fig. 1).
Jun 27, 2016 · Squeezed between the hyper-arid Sahara desert to the north and the lush tropical forests of the Gulf of Guinea and Central Africa, is the Sahel: a ribbon of semi-arid land where summer brings ...
Jun 4, 2019 · 1 INTRODUCTION. The name Sahel refers to the semi-arid region stretching longitudinally from Senegal in West Africa to Sudan and Ethiopia in East Africa and latitudinally from just north of the tropical forests to just south of the Sahara desert (roughly between 10° and 20°N).
Mar 22, 2024 · Climate zones are ecoregions. What is an ecoregion? Introduce key vocabulary by showing the “Major Climate Zones of Africa” map: rainforest, grasslands, Sahel semi-arid, desert, highland, and humid subtropical climate. Introduce ecoregion by explaining that climate shapes the ways humans live in and interact with their land. The concept of ...
Climate, Conflict and Overpopulation in the Sahel. The Sahel region of Africa comprises of one of the world’s harshest climates and faces some of the biggest challenges to development and peace. Stretching 5000 kms from Senegal’s Atlantic shorelines across to the Red Sea, the area transforms from the dry and semi-arid Saharan desert climate ...
Nov 28, 2019 · Transboundary animal diseases. Pastoralists. The African Sahel region ( Sahel in Arabic means shore, border, or coast) forms the transitional zone between Northern African Sahara to the north and the humid Savanna to the south (OECD 2014 ). It is an arid/semiarid tropical savanna ecoregion (Fig. 1.1 ), which stretches almost 5500 km across the ...
The tropical desert has the highest mean annual temperature of any climate on Earth. The high temperatures are a result of the high sun angles throughout the year and having the highest percentage of sunshine of any climate. No month has an average temperature below 18 o C (64.4 o F) and many places have consecutive average monthly temperatures ...
