Sentences with phrase «savanna vegetation cover»

Large - scale changes in savanna vegetation cover may also feed back to regional rainfall patterns.

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A relatively sparse savanna vegetation of grasses and shrubs now covers most of the Sahel, which stretches from Senegal in the west to the Sudan in the east.

Rainfall change and variability is very likely to affect vegetation in tropical grassland and savanna systems with, for example, a reduction in cover and productivity simulated along an aridity gradient in southern African savanna in response to the observed drying trend of about 8 mm / yr since 1970 (Woodward and Lomas, 2004a).

North American forest vegetation types could spread with up to 4 °C warming; but with greater warming, forest cover could be reduced by savanna expansion of up to 50 %, partly due to the impacts of fire (Bachelet et al., 2001).