Sampling zones | Climate | Biome & Soils | Transects | National roads | Sites | GPS coordinates |
North-West Sahelian zone | Sahelian | Ferruginous tropical sandy and Open shrubs, steppes and grasslands | Transect_1 | NR_02 | Site 01 | 15.944973, −16.432601 |
Site 02 | 15.923849, −16.383260 | |||||
Site 03 | 15.8459,−16.2337 | |||||
Site 04 | 15.643785, −16.251498 | |||||
Western Sahelo-sudanian zone | Sahelo-sudanian | Ferruginous tropical sandy, slightly leached and Open shrubs, steppes and grasslands | Transect_2 | NR_03 | Site 05 | 15.090473, −16.658762 |
Site 06 | 15.385496, −16.441333 | |||||
Site 07 | 15.494367, −16.325395 | |||||
Site 08 | 15.553947, −16.110582 | |||||
Site 09 | 15.506232, −15.964515 | |||||
Site 10 | 15.472428, −15.849397 | |||||
Site 11 | 15.3975,−15.64238 | |||||
Site 12 | 15.386454, −15.096790 | |||||
Eastern Sahelo-sudanian zone | Ferruginous tropical soils, lithosols, sandy to loamy and leached tropical ferruginous in valleys & Savanna and bush shrubs | Transect_3 | NR_03 | Site 13 | 15.213575, −14.460521 | |
Site 14 | 15.345589, −13.837952 | |||||
Site 15 | 15.59054,−13.33853 | |||||
Site 16 | 15.113020, −12.955188 | |||||
Site 17 | 14.850583, −12.491209 | |||||
Sudanian zone | Sudanian | Sandy to loamy leached tropical ferruginous soils in the valleys and terraces,loamy and gravelly soils over laterite on plateaus & Wooded savanna
| Transect_4 | NR_01 | Site 18 | 14.412543, −12.226470 |
Site 19 | 14.343767, −12.415628 | |||||
Site 20 | 14.233919, −12.639888 | |||||
Site 21 | 14.174821, −12.762551 | |||||
Site 22 | 13.983926, −13.257062 | |||||
Site 23 | 13.799368, −13.872387 | |||||
Site 24 | 13.892973, −14.192223 |