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Overview

Pierre Hiernaux is a researcher affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their work focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to forestry, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • African Botany and Ecology Studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Animal Diversity and Health Studies

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, Ankit Kariryaa, Christian Igel, and Florian Reiner.

Pierre Hiernaux's recent papers consist of works published mostly in high-impact journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, and Nature Climate Change. Notable recent papers include:

  • An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel, 2020, Nature
  • Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands, 2023, Nature
  • More than one quarter of Africa's tree cover is found outside areas previously classified as forest, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Great Green Walls: Hype, Myth, and Science, 2023, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

They have published books with éditions Quae eBooks, including:

  • Désertification et changement climatique, un même combat?, 2024
  • Desertification and climate change: Are they part of the same fight?, 2024

Common publication venues for Pierre Hiernaux include:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Revue d'élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux
  • International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences

Best Publications

  • Determinants of woody cover in African savannas

    Mahesh Sankaran;Niall P. Hanan;Robert J. Scholes;Jayashree Ratnam

  • Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

    Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;T. Michael Anderson;Mahesh Sankaran;Mahesh Sankaran;Steven I. Higgins;Steven I. Higgins

  • An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

    Martin Brandt;Compton J. Tucker;Ankit Kariryaa;Kjeld Rasmussen

  • Re-Greening Sahel: 30 Years of Remote Sensing Data and Field Observations (Mali, Niger)

    C. Dardel;L. Kergoat;P. Hiernaux;E. Mougin

  • Effects of livestock grazing on physical and chemical properties of sandy soils in Sahelian rangelands

    Pierre Hiernaux;Charles L. Bielders;Christian Valentin;André Bationo

  • Monitoring the grasslands of the Sahel using NOAA AVHRR data: Niger 1983

    C.O. Justice;Pierre H.Y. Hiernaux

  • Crop–Livestock Interactions in the West African Drylands

    J. Mark Powell;R. Anne Pearson;Pierre H. Hiernaux

  • Botanical knowledge and its differentiation by age, gender and ethnicity in southwestern Niger

    Augustine A. Ayantunde;Mirjam Briejer;Pierre Hiernaux;Henk M. J. Udo

  • The AMMA-CATCH Gourma observatory site in Mali: Relating climatic variations to changes in vegetation, surface hydrology, fluxes and natural resources

    E. Mougin;P. Hiernaux;L. Kergoat;M. Grippa

  • Woody plant population dynamics in response to climate changes from 1984 to 2006 in Sahel (Gourma, Mali)

    Pierre Hiernaux;Lassine Diarra;Valérie Trichon;Eric Mougin

  • On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

    Mireia Torello-Raventos;Ted R. Feldpausch;Elmar Veenendaal;Franziska Schrodt

  • Nutrients in the West African Sudano-Sahelian zone: Losses, transfers and role of external inputs

    Andreas Buerkert;Pierre H.Y. Hiernaux

  • Decomposition of and nutrient release from ruminant manure on acid sandy soils in the Sahelian zone of Niger, West Africa

    P.C. Esse;Andreas Buerkert;Pierre H.Y. Hiernaux;A. Assa

  • Nutrient cycling in integrated rangeland/cropland systems of the Sahel

    J.M. Powell;S. Fernández-Rivera;Pierre H.Y. Hiernaux;M. Turner

  • A regional Sahelian grassland model to be coupled with multispectral satellite data. I: Model description and validation

    E. Mougin;D. Lo Seena;S. Rambal;A. Gaston

  • Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda

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  • The AMMA-CATCH experiment in the cultivated Sahelian area of south-west Niger – Investigating water cycle response to a fluctuating climate and changing environment

    B. Cappelaere;Luc Descroix;Thierry Lebel;N. Boulain

  • Sahelian rangeland response to changes in rainfall over two decades in the Gourma region, Mali

    Pierre Hiernaux;Eric Mougin;Lassine Diarra;Nogmana Soumaguel

  • Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands

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  • A spatio-temporal analysis of forage availability and grazing and excretion behaviour of herded and free grazing cattle, sheep and goats in Western Niger

    Eva Schlecht;Pierre Hiernaux;Ibrahima Kadaouré;Christian Hülsebusch

  • Trends in productivity of crops, fallow and rangelands in Southwest Niger: Impact of land use, management and variable rainfall

    Pierre Hiernaux;Augustine Ayantunde;Adamou Kalilou;Eric Mougin

  • Multi-scale soil moisture measurements at the Gourma meso-scale site in Mali

    P. de Rosnay;C. Gruhier;F. Timouk;F. Baup

  • Rainfall regime across the Sahel band in the Gourma region, Mali

    Frédéric Frappart;Pierre Hiernaux;Françoise Guichard;Eric Mougin

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Laurent Kergoat
Laurent Kergoat Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Eva Schlecht
Eva Schlecht University of Göttingen
Lionel Jarlan
Lionel Jarlan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Martin Brandt
Martin Brandt University of Copenhagen
Bruno Gérard
Bruno Gérard Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Françoise Guichard
Françoise Guichard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thierry Lebel
Thierry Lebel Grenoble Alpes University
Andreas Buerkert
Andreas Buerkert University of Kassel
Kjeld Rasmussen
Kjeld Rasmussen University of Copenhagen

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