Nicolas Boulain

TL;DR: In this article, a physically-based, distributed hydrological model showed that land clearing increased runoff threefold, whereas the rainfall deficit decreased runoff by a factor of 2, and that the indirect impacts of land use change on water quantity and quality are much greater than the direct influence of climate variability.

TL;DR: This study investigated biogeographical and inter-annual patterns in savanna phenology along a 1100 km ecological rainfall gradient, known as North Australian Tropical Transect (NATT), encompassing humid coastal Eucalyptus forests and woodlands to xeric inland Acacia woodlands and shrublands and found good convergence between MODIS EVI and tower GEP, thereby confirming the potential to link these two independent data sources to better understand savanna ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: It is shown that increased D exerts a larger detrimental effect on transpiration and NPP, than increased temperature alone, with or without the imposition of a 3-month drought, and correct identification of the causes of global change-type mortality events requires explicit consideration of the influence of D.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report carbon and water fluxes between the land surface and atmosphere in eleven different ecosystems types in Sub-Saharan Africa, as measured using eddy covariance (EC) technology in the first two years of the CarboAfrica network operation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between EDD covariance estimated GPP, environmental variables derived from flux towers, MODIS enhanced vegetation index (EVI), and GPP across African savanna ecosystems.