Visiting Researcher
Idrissa Sawadogo
ACE-CCB / WASCAL · Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny · Côte d’Ivoire · Research Affiliate, ILRI Senegal
Environmental scientist and PhD candidate working on climate change, biodiversity and Sahelian rangelands. His research integrates field ecology, remote sensing, GIS and ecological modelling to understand forage resources, pastoral systems and vegetation responses to environmental change in West Africa.
Visit at Biodiversity Lab
Research focus
Climate changeRangeland ecologyRemote sensingSpecies distribution modellingPastoral systemsForage biodiversityGIS
Research project
Prediction of the potentially suitable areas of Diodia scandens in the Ferlo rangelands in Senegal based on future climate change using the MaxEnt model
The project investigates the potential distribution of Diodia scandens under current and future climate conditions in the Ferlo rangelands. Occurrence records from field surveys and biodiversity databases are combined with climatic, topographic, soil and human-pressure variables to identify suitable habitat and explore projected changes under future scenarios.
MaxEnt modellingSpecies occurrence dataGBIFClimate scenariosGIS and spatial analysis
Research profile
Research trajectory & current work.
Idrissa Sawadogo is a PhD candidate in Climate Change and Biodiversity at the African Centre of Excellence on Climate Change and Biodiversity (ACE-CCB/WASCAL), Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d’Ivoire, and a research affiliate of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Senegal.
His research focuses on pastoral systems in West Africa, linking forage biodiversity, rangeland ecology and climate-change adaptation. He combines field observations with Landsat and Sentinel data, GIS, species-distribution models and statistical modelling to quantify vegetation dynamics and the effects of climate and land-use change.
Before joining Biodiversity Lab as a visiting researcher, he carried out research with ILRI under AICCRA and completed a visiting research fellowship at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, where he reconstructed long-term forage-biomass dynamics and examined climate controls on Sahelian rangelands.