Background Ebola (EBOV) and Sudan (SUDV) orthoebolaviruses are responsible for lethal haemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans in Central and West Africa, and in apes that can be at the source of human outbreaks for EBOV. Methods To assess the risk of exposure to orthoebolaviruses through contact with non-human primates (NHP), we tested the presence ...
UFA-Reforest
Published in Frontiers in Conservation Science
Central African rainforests are predicted to be disproportionately affected by future climate change. How species will cope with these changes is unclear, but rapid environmental changes will likely impose strong selection pressures. Here we examined environmental drivers of genomic variation in the central African puddle frog (Phrynobatrachus auri...
status: published
Okoumé (Aucoumea klaineana Pierre) is the most harvested timber species in Central Africa. This pioneering light-demanding species favors open environments to form monospecific stands. During forest management activities, thinning operations in these stands were carried out. Through subsequent operations, the stumps of felled trees were discovered ...
Three‐hourly data from two satellite rainfall estimates products, PERSIANN and TMPA, are analysed to document the seasonal patterns of diurnal rainfall distribution over the Congo Basin and neighbouring areas. PERSIANN data for 2001–2017, at a one‐hour time‐scale, are further used to identify rain cells (≥4 mm·h −1 ) in an attempt to explain the di...
The Central African Republic (CAR) has experienced repeated mpox outbreaks since 2001. Although several mpox epidemiological risk factors for zoonotic and interhuman transmis- sion have been documented, the reasons for more frequent epidemic outbreaks are less well understood, relying on vague explanatory categories, including deforestation, huntin...
During 1979–2022, Cameroon recorded 32 laboratory-confirmed mpox cases among 137 suspected mpox cases identified by the national surveillance network. The highest positivity rate occurred in 2022, indicating potential mpox re-emergence in Cameroon. Both clade I (n = 12) and clade II (n = 18) monkeypox virus (MPXV) were reported, a unique feature of...
L'Afrique centrale occidentale abrite les forêts les plus denses du bassin du Congo, deuxième plus grand massif forestier tropical après l’Amazonie. Elle se caractérise par un climat équatorial avec des températures élevées, un régime pluviométrique bimodal et surtout une longue saison sèche nuageuse, de juin à septembre. Malgré son importance écol...
peer reviewed / A large share of the global forest restoration potential is situated in artificial ‘unstable’ mesic African savannas, which could be restored to higher carbon and biodiversity states if protected from human-induced burning. However, uncertainty on recovery rates in protected unstable savannas impedes science-informed forest restorat...
