Unveiling how herpetofauna cope with land-use changes--insights from forest-cashew-rice landscapes in West Africa
Francisco dos Reis-Silva, Cristian Pizzigalli, Sambú Seck, Mar Cabeza, Ana Rainho, Ricardo Rocha, Ana Filipa 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.
Biotropica · Dec 13, 2024Peer-reviewedEcology