Recently, extreme climatic events have been a major concern across the world.
Assessments on various climates and geographic regions are needed to understand the …

The temporal variation and trends of annual rainfall distribution in Benin were examined
using data from 1940 to 2015 at six meteorological stations and three raingauges stationed …

Desert locust swarms intermittently damage crops and pastures in sixty countries from Africa
to western Asia, threatening the food security of 10% of the world's population. During the …

Abstract Understanding Desert Locust population dynamics is a prerequisite for the
implementation of a preventive management strategy against its invasions. The present …

Rainfall is a highly variable climatic element, and rainfall-related changes occur in spatial
and temporal dimensions within a regional climate. The purpose of this study is to …

The benthic communities of soft-sediment intertidal ecosystems trophically underpin the
migration of birds and fish. Within the East Atlantic Flyway, along the coast of West-Africa …

Eutrophication causes tremendous losses to seagrass around the globe. The effects of
nutrient loading vary along environmental gradients, and wave forces especially are …

The time-frequency domain analysis of the sea surface temperature (SST) in the tropical
western Indian Ocean was conducted using wavelet analysis, cross wavelet transform …

To evaluate the state of ecosystems in Mauritania, rainfall time series and a GIMMS-NDVI
(global inventory modeling and mapping study-normalized difference vegetation index) data …

The overfishing of marine resources is a global problem. This situation is even more
alarming when it concerns the top-predator species and particularly the vulnerable species …