The willingness of a species to leave a forest fragment is a prerequisite for subsequent dispersal across the intervening non-forested landscape. Species with stringent fidelity to the forest patch will be isolated from populations in other fragments and predisposed to factors that promote extinction of local populations. Here, we document which fruit-feeding, forest-dwelling butterflies occur ...

The Dahliafleur Partial Nature Reserve, located in the town of Bingerville, is part great Ivorian protected area network. Unfortunately, very little known about its floristic diversity, and even less structure vegetation. This work intends to characterize structural aspects, through 13 surface surveys an itinerant survey carried out northern, central, southern zones this area. data analysis rev...

Discovering how to best protect one of the most endangered animals in the world, giant pandas, has always been an important project in ecological studies. Moreover, researching the living environments of giant pandas and how to recover them is one of the most important elements to these studies. In order to more effectively protect the giant pandas and their habitats, we studied the changing of...

Oil palm expansion threatens biodiverse ecosystems across the tropics. However, palm oil is a widely used and profitable crop, so identifying strategies that mitigate the impact of oil palm expansion on biodiversity is important. Riparian reserves (strips of forest along rivers) are protected in many countries for hydrological reasons and also support species that would not otherwise persist in...

Large tracts of tropical rainforests are being converted into intensive agricultural lands. Such anthropogenic disturbances are known to reduce species turnover across horizontal distances. But it is not known if they can also reduce species turnover across vertical distances (elevation), which have steeper climatic differences. We measured turnover in birds across horizontal and vertical sampl...

The abundance and species diversity of tabanids were evaluated by trapping of insects using Vavoua traps, during the rainy season, from October 4 to November 30, 2009, in three different habitats: primary forest, secondary forest and village, in the biosphere reserve Ipassa-IRET Makokou in Gabon. Eight species belonging to three genera of tabanids have been identified for a total of 402 specime...

mist-nets in three study sites, in primary forest and in 5-year-old and 10-year-old logged forests, in Sungai Lalang Forest Reserve, West Malaysia. A total of 58 species (271 individuals) was recorded in primary forest, 62 species (288 individuals) in 5-yearold logged forest, and 61 species (386 individuals) in 10-year-old logged forest. Assessment of feeding guilds indicated that insectivorous...