Editing Lake Chad (section)

===Plantlife===
The wetland plants in the south mainly include [[cyperus papyrus]], etc. [[Reed (plant)|Reeds]] mainly grow in the north where the salinity is high, and the floating plant [[pistia]] sometimes covers large areas of open water. Plants such as [[hyparrhenia rufa]] grow on the shores of lakes with long floods in the south.<ref name=tgd1/> The area of permanent vegetation has increased from about {{convert|3800|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} in 2000 to about {{convert|5200|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} in 2020 as water levels have dropped and temperatures have increased.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Binh Pham-Duc |author2=Florence Sylvestre |author3=Fabrice Papa |author4=Frédéric Frappart |author5=Camille Bouchez |author6=Jean-Francois Crétaux |title=The Lake Chad hydrology under current climate change |journal=Scientific Reports |date=2020 |volume=10 |issue=5498 |page=5498 |doi=10.1038/s41598-020-62417-w|doi-access=free |pmid=32218517 |pmc=7099084 }}</ref> The surrounding dense woodland has been converted to open forest with [[acacias]], [[baobabs]], [[Arecaceae|palms]] and [[Indian jujube]].<ref name=w2/>