In Sub-Saharan Africa, the West African region has highly diverse agro-climatic conditions,
which grant the potential for a remarkable agricultural production of a great diversity of …

Abstract Aim North‐eastern Madagascar is a hotspot of plant diversity, but vanilla and rice
farming are driving land‐use change, including slash‐and‐burn management. It still remains …

The conversion of tropical forests into agriculture reduces biodiversity dramatically.
However, species might differ in their responses, depending on their habitat specialisation …

Agroforestry plays an important role in food security, sustainable development and
biodiversity conservation. For understanding the role of agroforestry on biodiversity, a study …

Tropical crops like cashew (Anacardium occidentale) receive limited socio-ecological
research attention despite expansion in regions of high biodiversity. We investigated how …

Heterogeneous landscapes harboring mosaics of natural habitat and agriculture are
increasingly gaining conservation focus in the tropics. While research on cash crops such as …

1Granollers Museum of Natural Sciences, 08402 Granollers, Catalonia, Spain 2Center for
Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Faculty of Sciences, University of …

Tropical deforestation is increasingly driven by the expansion of agricultural commodity
production. Mapping commodity crops is an important step towards monitoring commodity …

Baseline information on species diversity is lacking in many parts of the world. To address
this gap, we conducted the first assessment of small mammal diversity in the Cantanhez …

Over millennia, mammals have coexisted with humans across the forest-savannah mosaics
characterising part of West Africa. While some savannahs have long been used for rice …