The biodiversity of West African rainforests is globally significant but poorly described, little
understood in terms of its functional significance, and under threat from forest loss and …

The possible future changes in temperature over Nigeria were projected in this study. Using
Climate Research Unit (CRU) temperature as the reference data, gain ratio (GR), entropy …

The forests and highlands along the southern portion of the Nigeria-Cameroon border and
on the island of Bioko have long been recognized as being biologically diverse. This region …

Anthropogenic disturbance and fragmentation have changed the structure and composition
of northern Ethiopian forests. This study was conducted to determine disturbance levels of …

Local factors can play an important role in defining tree species distributions in species rich
tropical forests. To what extent the same applies to relatively small, species poor West …

External threats from agricultural intensification, fire encroachment, species invasion and
illegal harvesting present major conservation challenges in isolated tropical forest remnants …

A trademark of Homo sapiens is the enormous variation in behavioral patterns across
populations. Insight into the development of human cultures can be aided by studies on …

Seed-dispersal ecology in tropical montane forests (TMF) differs in some predictable ways
from tropical lowland forests (TLF). Environmental, biogeographic and biotic factors together …

Abstract Mount Cameroon (4095 m), the highest peak and only active volcano in West
Africa, is located in the center of the Gulf of Guinea Pleistocene refugium. The associated …

Pan troglodytes vellerosus, the Nigerian-Cameroon chimpanzee, is the most recently
recognized chimpanzee subspecies and is categorized as Endangered on the IUCN Red …