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Most Central African rainforests are characterized by a remarkable abundance of light-demanding canopy species: long-lived pioneers (LLP) and non-pioneer light demanders (NPLD). A popular explanation is that these forests are still recovering from intense slash-and-burn farming activities, which abruptly ended in the 19th century. This “human distu...
All species must balance their allocation to growth, survival and recruitment. Among trees, evolution has resulted in different strategies of partitioning resources to these key demographic processes, i.e. demographic trade-offs. It is unclear whether the same demographic trade-offs structure tropical forests worldwide. Here, we used data from 13 l...
A diversity of phenological strategies has been reported for tropical tree species. Defoliation and seasonal dormancy of cambial activity inform us on how trees cope with water stress during the dry season, or maximize the use of resources during the rainy season. Here, we study the matching between leaf phenology (unfolding and shedding) and cambi...
All species must balance their allocation to growth, survival and recruitment. Among trees, evolution has resulted in different strategies of partitioning resources to these key demographic processes, i.e. demographic trade-offs. It is unclear whether the same demographic trade-offs structure tropical forests worldwide. Here, we used data from 13 l...
The Congo Basin's rapidly growing population still largely depends on shifting cultivation for both energy and food security. This nexus of population growth and ecological impact will continue to exacerbate landscape degradation in the coming decades. To quantify the effects of land-use intensity on soil nutrient stocks and the functional composit...
Tropical forests store 40-50% of terrestrial vegetation carbon. Spatial variations in aboveground live tree biomass carbon (AGC) stocks remain poorly understood, in particular in tropical montane forests. Because of climatic and soil changes with increasing elevation, AGC stocks are lower in tropical montane compared to lowland forests. Here we ass...
Central African tropical forests face increasing anthropogenic pressures, particularly in the form of deforestation and land-use conversion to agriculture. The long-term effects of this transformation of pristine forests to fallow-based agroecosystems and secondary forests on biogeochemical cycles that drive forest functioning are poorly understood...
Human disturbance is increasingly affecting forest dynamics across the tropics. Forests can recover via natural secondary succession to pre‐disturbance levels of biodiversity, species composition, and ecosystem carbon stocks. Central Africa will be subject to increasingly high shifting cultivation pressure in the next decades, but succession trajec...
A key feature of human behavioral diversity is that it can be constrained by cultural preference (“cultural override”); that is, population-specific preferences can override resource availability. Here we investigate whether a similar phenomenon can be found in one of our closest relatives, as well as the potential impacts of ecological differences...
The original version of this article unfortunately contained mistakes in the Discussion and Acknowledgments sections. The changes are shown below:
Aims: Amphibians and reptiles of the Albertine Rift in the Congolese part of the country are poorly documented. The objective of this research was to perform a preliminary inventory of the diversity of amphibians and reptiles in the region. Study Design: This study was designed following scientific expeditions related to studies on chimpanzees. Lit...
Amphibians are poorly known in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (RFO) in DRC, and amphibians are identified as one of the most threatened animal taxa among vertebrates living on Earth. The aim of this study was to inventory amphibians in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve. To do this, amphibians were caught by hand during the day (between 06:00-08:00 hrs) and at...
The Democratic Republic of Congo's forests are rich and diversified in biodiversity, particularly in high-altitude regions where they are reputed to be very rich in animal and plant biological diversity, particularly amphibians. Nevertheless, this fauna has not been well documented so far, mainly because of the lack of expertise in this field in th...
The present work focused on the comparative study of allometric equations for the evaluation of forest biomass in the Yoko Forest Reserve located in the Ubundu Territory, Tshopo Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The main objective of this work is to identify the different allometric equations needed to estimate forest biomass
Four fore...
The oil palm industry in DR Congo is being reborn after years of decay. This was sparked by an
increasing national demand for palm oil, mostly due to demographic growth. The rebirth was also by
the use of palm oil in diverse industries, and by the increased demand for other products derived from
the crop. Long-abandoned industrial plantations have...
This chapter assessed the impact of human activities on deforestation and sustainability of water resources and livelihoods in the Congo Basin. It mainly aimed to assess forest degradation in the Yoko Reserve from 1976 to 2015 and investigate the compatibility of Landsat imagery for forest monitoring. Digital image processing for unsupervised class...
This study assessed the impact of human activities on deforestation and sustainability of water resources
and livelihoods in the Congo Basin. It mainly aimed to assess forest degradation in the Yoko reserve
from 1976 to 2015 and investigate the compatibility of Landsat imagery for forest monitoring. Digital
Image processing for unsupervised classif...
This study assessed the impact of human activities on deforestation and sustainability of water resources and livelihoods in the Congo Basin. It mainly aimed to assess forest degradation in the Yoko reserve from 1976 to 2015 and investigate the compatibility of Landsat imagery for forest monitoring. Digital Image processing for unsupervised classif...
Knowledge about the biogeographic affinities of the world’s tropical forests helps to better understand regional differences in forest structure, diversity, composition, and dynamics. Such understanding will enable anticipation of region-specific responses to global environmental change. Modern phylogenies, in combination with broad coverage of spe...
This study assessed the impact of human activities on deforestation and sustainability
of water resources and livelihoods in the Congo Basin. It mainly aimed to assess forest
degradation in the Yoko reserve from 1976 to 2015 and investigate the compatibility
of Landsat imagery for forest monitoring. Digital Image processing for unsupervised
cla...
Aframomum ngamikkense, a new species from the Misotshi-Kabogo Massif in the Albertine Rift, Eastern D.R. Congo, is described and illustrated. It differs from the superficially similar A. pseudostipulare in the shorter and obtuse ligules up to 5 mm long (vs. acute and up to 10 mm long), and the indistinctly 3-lobed apex of the stamen (vs. distinctly...
With its remarquable biodiversity and ecology complexity, the tropical world has always been very attractive to biologists interested in life evolution and this is reflected by the numerous conference papers dealing with fundamental research issues, like the bat ethical sampling in the DRCongo rainforest to monitor specific activity patterns.
The study reported here aimed at testing the performance of non-invasive bat sampling and marking to monitor specific activity patterns and infer diet preferences
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Palm oil is produced in the humid and sub-humid tropics. It is a commodity
that causes controversy due to its impacts on smallholder livelihoods,
local communities, biodiversity, land productivity and climate change. Given
these issues, the focus, size and depth of the debates surrounding palm oil
production are growing. Addressing the inclusiveness of smallholders who
make up a substantial part of the value chain, this ETFRN News presents the
experiences, perceptions and perspectives of individuals, companies, institutions
and NGOs, on what has been done and is being done on the ground
to increase the involvement of, and benefits to, smallholder oil palm growers.
How do these actions and their impacts differ between different smallholder
types and organizations? How do they differ between countries, regions and
corporate contexts? What are the effects of various enabling policy environments?
And what do the authors in this edition mean by ‘inclusiveness’?
