The site is a young (~5 years old) palm oil plantation in Dangbo, a tropical humid region within the Ouémé Valley, the second most fertile valley in the world after the Nile. The eddy covariance site is located less than 2 km away near the “Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques”. The climate of the region is sub-equatorial Guinean. The Dangbo''s region is characterized by the alternation of two wet (rainy) seasons alternating with a long dry season (December-February) and a short dry season (July-August), which rarely exceeds two months. The relief of the region has two geomorphological units: a plateau at altitudes of between 20 and 200 m, with pronounced undulations, and a floodplain no more than 10 m above sea level, in the north-south direction and adjoining the plateau in the east-west “toposequence”. The dominant soils on the plateau where the flux tower is located are “ferrallitic soils”.
