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SUBMITTER: Johansson EL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5068327 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Johansson Emma Li EL Fader Marianela M Seaquist Jonathan W JW Nicholas Kimberly A KA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160926 41
In the last decade, more than 22 million ha of land have been contracted to large-scale land acquisitions in Africa, leading to increased pressures, competition, and conflicts over freshwater resources. Currently, 3% of contracted land is in production, for which we model site-specific water demands to indicate where freshwater appropriation might pose high socioenvironmental challenges. We use the dynamic global vegetation model Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land to simulate green (precipitation st ...[more]