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        <dc:title>Assessing the inter-relationship between vegetation productivity, rainfall, population and land cover over the Bani River Basin in Mali (West Africa)</dc:title>
        <dc:creator>Traore, S S</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Forkue, E K</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Traore, P C S</dc:creator>
        <dc:creator>Landmann, T</dc:creator>
        <dc:subject>Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics</dc:subject>
        <dc:description>This research investigated the inter-relationship between vegetation productivity, measured using&#13;
the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), change in rainfall and population density in the context of&#13;
perceived greening and degradation trends over the Bani River Basin (BRB). A 30-year (1982-2011), 8-km&#13;
gridded rainfall data sets was produced by inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation of monthly data from&#13;
40 meteorological stations contained within the basin. Population data were retrieved from the National&#13;
Population Statistic data base for 1987, 1997, and 2009. Rainfall and NDVI time-series trends were computed&#13;
for the 30-year period and analysed. The relationship between rainfall and NDVI at pixel level, and NDVI and&#13;
population densities was analysed using a Pearson correlation. Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) conversion&#13;
rates were computed for the same period using multi-temporal 30-meter Landsat imagery; ground surveys for&#13;
selected areas within the basin were used for further cross-verification. The computed NDVI trends revealed&#13;
that, vegetation 'greening' trends are mostly associated with areas where natural vegetation is still well&#13;
represented. Concurrent with increases in rainfall over the period analysed, this finding supports the hypothesis&#13;
that re-greening observed in that area is the result of multi-decadal fluctuations in climate, rather than improved&#13;
land management.</dc:description>
        <dc:publisher>International organization of Scientific Research</dc:publisher>
        <dc:date>2015</dc:date>
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        <dc:type>PeerReviewed</dc:type>
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        <dc:identifier>http://oar.icrisat.org/9316/1/IOSRJEN_5_6_10-18_2015.pdf</dc:identifier>
        <dc:identifier>  Traore, S S and Forkue, E K and Traore, P C S and Landmann, T  (2015) Assessing the inter-relationship between vegetation productivity, rainfall, population and land cover over the Bani River Basin in Mali (West Africa).  IOSR Journal of Engineering, 5 (6).  pp. 10-18.  ISSN 2278-8719     </dc:identifier></oai_dc:dc>
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