Unveiling how herpetofauna cope with land-use changes--insights from forest-cashew-rice landscapes in West Africa
F. Silva, C. Pizzigalli, S. Seck, M. Cabeza, A. Rainho, R. Rocha, A. F. Palmeirim
The paper examines how amphibian and reptile diversity responds to different land-use types in West Africa, finding that rice paddies support higher amphibian abundance and open-habitat reptiles, while cashew orchards have distinct species compositions.
bioRxiv · Jun 3, 2024Ecology