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The Sahel ecological zone, a 3 million km2 strip, stretches across the African Continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the 100–600 mm isohyets of mean annual rainfall. It thus appears as a transition belt separating the Sahara Desert from the Sudanian savannas.
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Le Houérou, H.N. (1989). General Conclusions: Towards an Ecological Management of the Sahelian Ecosystems. In: The Grazing Land Ecosystems of the African Sahel. Ecological Studies, vol 75. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74457-0_8
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