A high diversity of forests foods for consumption exists in DR Congo, Cameroon and Gabon. Despite a diverse pool of wild foods, more than 80% of households engaged in logging suffer from food insecurity. A significant inverse correlation exists between food insecurity and forest foods consumption...

Tropical dry forests are widespread, harbour vast amounts of carbon and unique biodiversity, and underpin the livelihoods of millions. A variety of natural and anthropogenic disturbances affect tropical dry forest canopy, yet our understanding of how these disturbances impact on forest structure...

Understanding the effects of cash crop expansion on natural forest is of fundamental importance. However, for most crops there are no remotely sensed global maps, and global deforestation impacts are estimated using models and extrapolations. Natural rubber is an example of a principal commodity...

Selective logging is one of the largest drivers of tropical forest degradation. While logged forests often retain high alpha-diversity of tropical trees at local spatial scales, understanding how selective logging impacts tree beta-diversity and community composition across far larger spatial...

The Central African region hosts the largest continuous tract of forest in Africa, regulating global climate while providing essential resources and livelihoods for millions of people and harbouring extensive biodiversity. Extractive industries, infrastructure development and industrial agriculture ...

Although forest degradation caused by dwarf bamboo overabundance has a significant effect on the survival of wild giant pandas, the degradation process and its impact on soil C, N and P stocks remain unclear. By investigating the vegetation structure and physicochemical analysis of litter and soil, ...

The Upper Guinea Forest is subject to heavy deforestation. In this context, many endemic and/or rare plant species are threatened with extinction. This is the case of Aubregrinia taïensis (Aubrév. & Pellegr.) Heine, a critically endangered Sapotaceae species, endemic to Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana....

Climate change is one of the numerous things that are believed to speed up desertification. It is caused by the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere which have an impact on our environment. It is also one of the biggest environmental, socioeconomic, and political issues of our day. The...

Aim: The soil seed bank is a key component of the biodiversity of plant communities, but various aspects of its functioning in temperate forest ecosystems are still unknown. We here adopted a trait-based approach to investigate the effects of macro- and microclimatic gradients on the juvenile plant ...

Changing environmental conditions owing to increasing resource degradation and urbanization in the Bosomtwe district of Ghana make the land cover and change detection analysis an extremely important consideration for Sustainable Environmental Management. The district, where lies the only natural...