Collaborative initiative across West Africa
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The WAF-Net is a collaborative initiative addressing climate change in a region recognized as a global 'hotspot' due to intensified hydrological patterns. This shift toward fewer, more intense rainfall events poses challenges for agriculture and ecosystems. WAF-Net includes scientists across West Africa countries and operates eddy covariance sites. These sites span the ecoclimatic gradient from the arid Sahel (Senegal, Niger) to the humid tropics (Ghana, Benin), covering diverse ecosystems such as semi-deciduous forest, savanna, and woodland.
Flux tower sites include natural ecosystems (moist semi-deciduous forest, clear forest, bushy savannah, pristine savanna forest, guinea savanna woodland forest and ferlho savanna), agricultural ecosystems (rice, millet, oil palm, mixed crop, Faidherbia albida, degraded crop areas, and grassland savanna), and fallow ecosystems. The network aims to generate innovative solutions for West Africa's societal challenges through flux science, fostering collaboration among researchers, securing funding opportunities, influencing policy, promoting scientific cooperation, addressing the regional shortage of in-situ observations and nurturing the next generation of scientists.