The Fortunes of Migratory Birds from Eurasia: Being on a Tightrope in the Sahel

Woody plant decline in the Sahel of western Niger (1996–2017):is it driven by climate or land use changes?

(2022) Pierre Hiernaux et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Population trends of resident and migrant West African bird species monitored over an 18-year period in central Nigeria

(2022) Joy Akpanta Ishong et al.   OSTRICH

Contrasting use of space by two migratory Afro-Palearctic warblers on their African non-breeding grounds

(2021) Dina Abdelhafez Ali Mostafa et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Resilience of wetland vegetation to recurrent drought in the Inland Niger Delta of Mali from 1982 to 2014

(2021) Pierre Hiernaux et al.   WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Rainfall-discharge relationship and water balance over the past 60 years within the Chari-Logone sub-basins, Lake Chad basin

(2021) A. Mahamat Nour et al.   Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies

Geographic variation in the population trends of common breeding birds across central Europe

(2021) Diana Bowler et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Flyways to hell? An empirical assessment of Palearctic migratory waterbird harvest practices in key wetlands of Sahel-sub-Saharan Africa

(2021) Christophe P. Deniau et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Hydrologic Modeling of the Sudd Wetland using Satellite-based Data

(2021) Courtney A. Di Vittorio et al.   Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies

Differential winter and breeding range shifts: Implications for avian migration distances

(2020) Shannon R. Curley et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Whinchat survival estimates across Europe: can excessive adult mortality explain population declines?

(2020) R. Fay et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

The Lake Chad hydrology under current climate change

(2020) Binh Pham-Duc et al.   Scientific Reports

Population trends of common breeding birds in Germany 1990–2018

(2020) Johannes Kamp et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Improving waterbird monitoring and conservation in the Sahel using remote sensing: a case study with the International Waterbird Census in Sudan

(2020) Marie Suet et al.   IBIS

Assessing Worldview-3 multispectral imaging abilities to map the tree diversity in semi-arid parklands

(2020) Camille C.D. Lelong et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

50 years of woody vegetation changes in the Ferlo (Senegal) assessed by high-resolution imagery and field surveys

(2020) Morgane Dendoncker et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Sacred groves hold distinct bird assemblages within an Afrotropical savanna

(2019) Katharina Kühnert et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Rainfall trends in the African Sahel: Characteristics, processes, and causes

(2019) Michela Biasutti   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Adverse wind conditions during northward Sahara crossings increase the in‐flight mortality of Black‐tailed Godwits

(2019) A. H. Jelle Loonstra et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disentangling the effects of environmental conditions on wintering and breeding grounds on age‐specific survival rates in a trans‐Saharan migratory raptor

(2019) Alexandre Millon et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

The Impacts of the Dust Radiative Effect on Vegetation Growth in the Sahel

(2019) Stuart Evans et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Rainfall intensification in tropical semi-arid regions: the Sahelian case

(2018) G Panthou et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Apparent resilience of a declining Afro-Palaearctic migrant to forest loss on the wintering grounds

(2018) John W. Mallord et al.   IBIS

Large decline of birds in Sahelian rangelands due to loss of woody cover and soil seed bank

(2018) Leo Zwarts et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Reduction of tree cover in West African woodlands and promotion in semi-arid farmlands

(2018) Martin Brandt et al.   Nature Geoscience

Land cover classification and wetland inundation mapping using MODIS

(2018) Courtney A. Di Vittorio et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Biology of landbird migrants: a stopover perspective

(2018) Frank R. Moore   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Evolution of Surface Hydrology in the Sahelo-Sudanian Strip: An Updated Review

(2018) Luc Descroix et al.   Water

Relative contribution of climate variability and human activities on the water loss of the Chari/Logone River discharge into Lake Chad: A conceptual and statistical approach

(2018) Wenbin Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Frequency of extreme Sahelian storms tripled since 1982 in satellite observations

(2017) Christopher M. Taylor et al.   NATURE

The decline of an urban Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus population in Dakar, Senegal, over 50 years

(2017) Wim C Mullié et al.   OSTRICH

Monthly flooded area classification using low resolution SAR imagery in the Sudd wetland from 2007 to 2011

(2017) Daniel C. Wilusz et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Marked reduction in demographic rates and reduced fitness advantage for early breeding is not linked to reduced thermal matching of breeding time

(2017) Debora Arlt et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Does wintering north or south of the Sahara correlate with timing and breeding performance in black-tailed godwits?

(2017) Rosemarie Kentie et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Human population growth offsets climate-driven increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa

(2017) Martin Brandt et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Large manipulative experiments revealed variations of insect abundance and trophic levels in response to the cumulative effects of sheep grazing

(2017) Jingchuan Ma et al.   Scientific Reports

Apparent Constant Adult Survival of a Sand MartinRiparia ripariaPopulation in Relation to Climatic Variables

(2016) Giulia Masoero et al.   ARDEA

High site fidelity in Northern WheatearsOenanthe oenanthewintering in Africa revealed through colour marking

(2016) Emma Blackburn et al.   BIRD STUDY

Survival of Afro-Palaearctic passerine migrants in western Europe and the impacts of seasonal weather variables

(2016) Alison Johnston et al.   IBIS

Changes in lakes water volume and runoff over ungauged Sahelian watersheds

(2016) L. Gal et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Interactive effects of large herbivores and plant diversity on insect abundance in a meadow steppe in China

(2015) Hui Zhu et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Severe declines of understory birds follow illegal logging in Upper Guinea forests of Ghana, West Africa

(2015) Nicola Arcilla et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The cost of migration: spoonbills suffer higher mortality during trans-Saharan spring migrations only

(2015) T. Lok et al.   Biology Letters

Is supplementary feeding in gardens a driver of evolutionary change in a migratory bird species?

(2015) Kate E. Plummer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High within-winter and annual survival rates in a declining Afro-Palaearctic migratory bird suggest that wintering conditions do not limit populations

(2015) Emma Blackburn et al.   IBIS

Woody vegetation and land cover changes in the Sahel of Mali (1967–2011)

(2015) Raphael Spiekermann et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Fine-scale habitat use during the non-breeding season suggests that winter habitat does not limit breeding populations of a declining long-distance Palearctic migrant

(2015) Emma Blackburn et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Dominant role of greenhouse-gas forcing in the recovery of Sahel rainfall

(2015) Buwen Dong et al.   Nature Climate Change

West African Mangroves Harbour Millions of Wintering European Warblers

(2014) Leo Zwarts et al.   ARDEA

Carry-over effects from passage regions are more important than breeding climate in determining the breeding phenology and performance of three avian migrants of conservation concern

(2014) Tom Finch et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Grazing impact on desert plants and soil seed banks: Implications for seed-eating animals

(2013) Rodrigo G. Pol et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climatic effects on breeding grounds are more important drivers of breeding phenology in migrant birds than carry-over effects from wintering grounds

(2013) N. Ockendon et al.   Biology Letters

Recent population declines in Afro-Palaearctic migratory birds: the influence of breeding and non-breeding seasons

(2013) Catriona A. Morrison et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Density-dependent survival and recruitment in a long-distance Palaearctic migrant, the Sand MartinRiparia riparia

(2013) David Norman et al.   IBIS

Short-distance migration of WrynecksJynx torquillafrom Central European populations

(2013) Rien E. van Wijk et al.   IBIS

The decline of Afro-Palaearctic migrants and an assessment of potential causes

(2013) Juliet A. Vickery et al.   IBIS

Characterization of the spatial and temporal variability of surface water in the Soudan-Sahel region of Africa

(2013) Armel T. Kaptué et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Declines in British-breeding populations of Afro-Palaearctic migrant birds are linked to bioclimatic wintering zone in Africa, possibly via constraints on arrival time advancement

(2012) Nancy Ockendon et al.   BIRD STUDY

Vegetation impoverishment despite greening: A case study from central Senegal

(2012) S.M. Herrmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Long-Term Population Developments in Typical Marshland Birds in The Netherlands

(2011) C.A.M. van Turnhout et al.   ARDEA

Climate change and the long-term northward shift in the African wintering range of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica

(2011) R Ambrosini et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Flood Pulsing in the Sudd Wetland: Analysis of Seasonal Variations in Inundation and Evaporation in South Sudan

(2011) L-M. Rebelo et al.   Earth Interactions

Modèle hydrologique du Lac Tchad

(2011) Jean-Claude Bader et al.   HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES

Numbers, foraging and refuelling of passerine migrants at a stopover site in the western Sahara: diverse strategies to cross a desert

(2011) Susanne Jenni-Eiermann et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Tree density and species decline in the African Sahel attributable to climate

(2011) P. Gonzalez et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Black Kites (Milvus migrans) Winter in Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey

(2011) Murat Biricik et al.   JOURNAL OF RAPTOR RESEARCH

Large declines of the Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus across its African range

(2011) D L Ogada et al.   OSTRICH

Analysis of the relationship between flooding area and water height in the Logone floodplain

(2011) Hahn Chul Jung et al.   PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH

Once there was a lake: vulnerability to environmental changes in northern Mali

(2011) Houria Djoudi et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Challenging conservation of migratory species: Sahelian rainfalls drive first-year survival of the vulnerable Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni

(2010) Jean-Baptiste Mihoub et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Hypotheses to explain patterns of population change among breeding bird species in England

(2010) Chris B. Thaxter et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Changes in Sahelian bird biodiversity and tree density over a five‐year period in northern Nigeria

(2010) Matthew Stevens et al.   BIRD STUDY

Conserving migratory land birds in the New World: Do we know enough?

(2010) John Faaborg et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Food or nesting place? Identifying factors limiting Wryneck populations

(2010) Valérie Coudrain et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Increase in African dust flux at the onset of commercial agriculture in the Sahel region

(2010) Stefan Mulitza et al.   NATURE

How hazardous is the Sahara Desert crossing for migratory birds? Indications from satellite tracking of raptors

(2009) R. Strandberg et al.   Biology Letters

Long-term population declines in Danish trans-Saharan migrant birds

(2009) Henning Heldbjerg et al.   BIRD STUDY

Habitat structure versus food abundance: the importance of sparse vegetation for the common redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus

(2009) Nicolas Martinez et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Long term dynamics and structure of woody vegetation in the Ferlo (Senegal)

(2009) C. Vincke et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Tree mortality in the African Sahel indicates an anthropogenic ecosystem displaced by climate change

(2009) Steven Maranz   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Woody plant population dynamics in response to climate changes from 1984 to 2006 in Sahel (Gourma, Mali)

(2009) Pierre Hiernaux et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Drought-induced tree death in savanna

(2008) R. J. FENSHAM et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

SPRING WEIGHTS OF SOME PALAEARCTIC MIGRANTS AT LAKE CHAD

(2008) C. H. Fry et al.   IBIS

FACTORS AFFECTING THE FOOD SUPPLY AND BREEDING SEASON OF RESIDENT BIRDS AND MOVEMENTS OF PALAEARCTIC MIGRANTS IN A TROPICAL AFRICAN SAVANNAH

(2008) A. R. E. SINCLAIR   IBIS

THE INUNDATION ZONE OF THE NIGER AS AN ENVIRONMENT FOR PALAEARCTIC MIGRANTS

(2008) PETER J. CURRY et al.   IBIS

Habitat selection and reproductive success of Ortolan Buntings Emberiza hortulana on farmland in central Sweden - the importance of habitat heterogeneity

(2008) ÅKE BERG   IBIS

Population limitation in Palaearctic-African migrant passerines

(2008) STEPHEN R. BAILLIE et al.   IBIS

Survival of British Sedge Warblers Acrocephalus schoenobaenus in relation to west African rainfall

(2008) WILL PEACH et al.   IBIS

Population dynamics of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia in western France

(2008) CRISTOPHE BARBRAUD et al.   IBIS

Survival of Turtle DovesStreptopelia turturin relation to western Africa environmental conditions

(2008) CYRIL ERAUD et al.   IBIS

Spatio-temporal variability of hydrological regimes around the boundaries between Sahelian and Sudanian areas of West Africa: A synthesis

(2008) L. Descroix et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Land clearance and hydrological change in the Sahel: SW Niger

(2007) Marc J. Leblanc et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Climate change projections for the Mediterranean region

(2007) Filippo Giorgi et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Fifty years of landscape evolution in Southwestern Mauritania by means of aerial photos

(2007) A.J. Niang et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS