Telecoupled urban demand from West African cities causes social-ecological land use transformation in Saharan oases.

Little is known about the long-distance telecoupling effects of urban food demands on land use changes (LUCs) in remote oases of the Southern Sahara. Using the example of two typical oasis settlements on Mont Bagzam in the southern Aϊr Mountains of Niger which are linked to regional and global marke...

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Main Authors: Kira Fastner, Salouhou Djibrilla, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Andreas Buerkert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289694&type=printable