Adnane Labbaci

University Ibn Zohr - Agadir · Geology

Climate change significantly challenges the sustainability of forest ecosystems, with broad socio-ecological impacts insufficiently assessed. This study examines one such critical system, the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), focusing on preserving the Argan tree in the Ait Souab-Ait Mansour region of southern Morocco. The r...

Soil maps have paramount importance as they enable scientists, as well as decision-makers, to make relevant choices in areas ranging from agronomy to land use planning. In this paper, we consider three main factors of soil differentiation: the materials, resulting from a lithological synthesis made from the geological maps; morpho-landscapes, extra...

Flash floods are a significant threat to arid and semi-arid regions, causing considerable loss of life and damage, including roads, bridges, check dams and dikes, reservoir filling, and mudslides in populated areas as well as agricultural fields. Flood risk is a complex process linked to numerous morphological, pedological, geological, anthropic, a...

The Bayech basin is located in southwestern Tunisia, a highly prone region to flooding risks. The Bayech basin is characterized by wadis that adopt a wide, sometimes ill-defined bed, often intersected by low-lying areas, resulting in a semi-endoreismo, greatly disrupting the flow regimes. The Bayech basin drains the slopes of the Nementchas and Teb...

Argan tree is endemic of Moroccan arid regions, providing socioeconomic and cultural benefits since ancient times. This study identifies the emerging threats for the argan forest, and the opportunities related to the innovative uses of argan products and byproducts. Argan forest is facing pressure from overgrazing, demand for argan oil and nuts, an...

Climate data are important in building a hydrological risk assessment model. The ClimInonda web application enables interactive and dynamic visualizations of different data collected from different weather stations in the study area on a single platform, allowing users to explore and analyze data in an easy way. This can assist decision-makers and...

An accurate estimate of crop coefficient (Kc) values at different development stages (Kcini, Kcmid, and Kcend) is crucial for assessing crop water requirements in semi-arid regions. The objectives of this study were first to quantify the reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and to calculate the actual evapotranspiration (ETa) over citrus in a semi-ar...

Soil loss called also soil erosion is one of the most irreversible natural phenomena that affect the topsoil of Earth’s surface worldwide, as it causes soil fertility reduction, water availability decrease, and initiation of geo-hazards, which leads to negative repercussions on agricultural production, considered the main source of income for most...

In Morocco, desertification affects a large area. It is more pronounced as the climate is arid with increasingly a long drought and poor soils that are highly vulnerable to erosion. In addition, the precarious living conditions of rural populations grow to overuse natural resources to meet their growing needs, which amplifies further environmental...

Morocco's drylands cover over 90% of the land area; low and irregular rainfall and high potential evaporation contribute to extremely high-water deficits in this area. These phenomena have significantly impacted rangeland hydrology and nomadic and transhumant pastoralism. To adapt to this predominant water deficit, the inhabitants of these areas ha...

Moistube technology, widely known as nano-irrigation, is starting to gain popularity lately in Morocco compared to other buried irrigation systems made up of porous tubes. However, the technology remains unknown with installation difficulties for professionals, and only a few demonstration trials, and rarely scientific trials are conducted to demon...

Moroccan forests, through the provision of goods and ecosystem services, underpins benefits to local communities and play a crucial role for rural area development. The legal framework recognizes to people, living near public forests, the right to graze their domestic livestock. Over the years, the grazing pressure is at levels far beyond the fores...

Erosion affects large parts of Moroccan land, particularly in the mountains leading to soil quality deterioration and less vegetation cover. Located in the Southwest of Morocco, the Site of Biological and Ecological Interest (SBEI) of Ain Asmama, where erosion threatens a major part of the region was investigated. The site has a terraced transition...

In this paper, the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) algorithm was applied to estimate the current and potential distributions of cork oak (Quercus suber L.) in the Maarmora forest of Morocco to provide a basis for its conservation under climate change conditions in the Mediterranean basin. A total of 1,428 field-based spatial records of cork oak locations...

Assessments of ecosystem service and function losses of wetlandscapes (i.e., wetlands and their hydrological catchments) suffer from knowledge gaps regarding impacts of ongoing hydro-climatic change. This study investigates hydro-climatic changes during 1976–2015 in 25 wetlandscapes distributed across the world’s tropical, arid, temperate and cold...

Water erosion causes significant economic losses linked mainly to the silting up of dams and losses in soil productivity, these consequences will increase if soil and water conservation actions associated with development actions are not undertaken. The present work aims to evaluate the water erosion in the basin of the Beni Boufrah located in the...

Le changement climatique constitue un grand défi à relever par les politiques publiques et les gestionnaires des espaces naturels. La compréhension de ses impacts sur les écosystèmes forestiers constitue un préalable nécessaire à toute réflexion visant leur conservation et le maintien des services écosystémiques qu’ils offrent. Cette étude s’est in...

Climate change is a major challenge for public policies and the management of natural areas. Understanding its impacts on forest ecosystems is essential to undertake any policy-making for their conservation and preservation of their ecosystem services. This study focused on modelling the potential distribution of Cedrus atlantica Manetti, by identi...

Geography and associated hydrological, hydroclimate and land use conditions and their changes determine 42 the states and dynamics of wetlands and their ecosystem services. The influences of these controls are not limited to 43 just the local scale of each individual wetland, but extend over larger landscape areas that integrate multiple wetlands 4...

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Geography and associated hydrological, hydroclimate and land-use conditions and their changes determine the states and dynamics of wetlands and their ecosystem services. The influences of these controls are not limited to just the local scale of each individual wetland but extend over larger landscape areas that integrate multiple wetlands and thei...

The authors wish to make the following correction to this paper: The author name “Zahra Kalantary” should be “Zahra Kalantari” [...]

La rupture avec les pratiques de gestion ancestrales, l’utilisation quasi-généralisée de l’espace pastoral forestier et le manque d’implication des communautés locales dans les initiatives de gestion ont entraîné une forte pression sur les ressources sylvopastorales au Maroc et ont conduit au non-respect, par les populations, des mises en défens in...

Geography and associated hydrological, hydroclimate and land use conditions and their changes determine 42 the states and dynamics of wetlands and their ecosystem services. The influences of these controls are not limited to 43 just the local scale of each individual wetland, but extend over larger landscape areas that integrate multiple wetlands 4...

Wetlands are often vital physical and social components of a country's natural capital, as well as providers of ecosystem services to local and national communities. We performed a network analysis to prioritize Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for sustainable development in iconic wetlands and wetlandscapes around the world. The analysis...

Wetlands are often vital physical and social components of a country's natural capital, as well as providers of ecosystem services to local and national communities. We performed a network analysis to prioritize Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for sustainable development in iconic wetlands and wetlandscapes around the world. The analysis...

Wetlands are often vital physical and social components of a country’s natural capital, as well as providers of ecosystem services to local and national communities. We performed a network analysis to prioritize Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for sustainable development in iconic wetlands and wetlandscapes around the world. The analysis...