A5078069676- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Algal biology and biofuel production
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Texas A&M University
2024
Drexel University
2019-2024
WWF Cameroon
2022
Abstract Few studies explicitly assess the robustness and practicality of occupancy analysis informed by local inhabitants, compared to estimates from conventional monitoring methods within different contexts. This study evaluates efficacy models based on camera trap data, two locally methods: seasonal interviews hunter diaries, for 13 hunted mammal species in south‐eastern Cameroon. We triangulate detectability precision comparability their species, cost. Camera are comparable with 7 11...
Although indigenous populations' participatory rights are recognised as a worldwide priority in forest management, local practices vary interpretation, scope, and efficacy. The next generation of sustainable policies will require greater degree self-determination from groups (i.e., the ability for use, ownership, control their traditional lands resources). Our case study provides insights into how an population, Baka Cameroon, face barriers to participation policy making, hindering...
C4 photosynthesis is a complex trait that boosts productivity in tropical conditions. Compared with C3 species, the state seems to require numerous novelties, but species comparisons can be confounded by long divergence times. Here, we exploit photosynthetic diversity exists within single grass Alloteropsis semialata, detect changes gene expression associated different phenotypes. Phylogenetically informed comparative transcriptomics show intermediates weak cycle are separated from phenotype...
Ecological niche models (ENMs) are often used to predict species distribution patterns from datasets that describe abiotic and biotic factors at coarse spatial scales. Ground-truthing ENMs provide important information about how these relate species-specific requirements a scale is biologically relevant for the species. Chimpanzees territorial have predominantly frugivorous diet. The temporal variation in fruit availability different chimpanzee populations thus crucial, but rarely depicted...
Abstract Human activity in African tropical rainforests continues to threaten wild mammals. Many rural communities are dependent on hunting, yet there is a widespread lack of baseline data ecology and the sustainability hunting. We investigated impacts human mammal species composition distributions within community forest surrounding village buffer zone Dja Biosphere Reserve south-east Cameroon. conducted camera-trap survey August–November 2017 detected 24 species, including Critically...
This study was conducted on Manoka Island (Littoral Region of Cameroon) with the aim analyzing climate change vulnerability and local adaptation strategies based community's perceptions biophysical evidence. We used household surveys, focus group discussions, field observation, GIS, remote sensing to collect data variables exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity. Historical changes in rainfall temperature, mangrove cover, occurrence extreme climatic events were as indicators exposure....
Abstract Power analyses help to improve the cost‐effectiveness of monitoring strategies for wildlife populations, but rarely account variation in detection probability, affecting power data detect trends occupancy. We explore occupancy models informed by two locally‐informed methods (interviews and daily diaries) changes 14 mammal species hunted wild meat within a community forest Cameroon. This is first study use formula developed compare between camera traps, identify best suited different...
Abstract Species evolve from populations with ancestor-descendant relationships in a bifurcating process shaped by geography, gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection leading to local adaptation prevailing environmental ecological conditions. Building on this foundational understanding, we explored chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) at key geographical intersection Cameroon where the two main chimpanzee phylogenetic lineages converge. The Nigeria-Cameroon P. t. ellioti central last...