African Journal of Ecology

Article	Citations
Pangolins and bats living together in underground burrows in Lopé National Park, Gabon	16
DNA metabarcoding reveals that African leopard diet varies between habitats	16
Use of multispectral satellite datasets to improve ecological understanding of the distribution of Invasive Alien Plants in a water‐limited catchment, South Africa	13
Wild meat hunting levels and trade in a West African protected area in Togo	12
The landscape configuration and lethality of snare poaching of sympatric guilds of large carnivores and ungulates	12
Local community involvement in nature conservation under the auspices of Community‐Based Natural Resource Management: A state of the art review	12
Causes of admission to a raptor rehabilitation centre and factors that can be used to predict the likelihood of release	11
Surviving at the extreme: Chimpanzee ranging is not restricted in a deforested human‐dominated landscape in Uganda	10
Woody vegetation damage by the African elephant during severe drought at Pongola Game Reserve, South Africa	9
Assessment of land use and land cover changes in Kenya’s Mt. Elgon forest ecosystem	9
Assessing local knowledge on the diversity and abundance of bushmeat species and hunting pressure in the fragmented forest islands of southern Benin (Dahomey Gap)	9
Use of maximum entropy (Maxent) niche modelling to predict the occurrence of threatened freshwater species in a biodiversity hotspot of Zimbabwe	8
Census and distribution of large carnivores in the Tsavo national parks, a critical east African wildlife corridor	8
Wildfires in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania: Burned areas, underlying causes and management challenges	8
Using local ecological knowledge to improve the effectiveness of detecting white‐bellied pangolins (Phataginus tricuspis) using camera traps: A case study from Deng‐Deng National Park, Cameroon	8
Anthropogenic impact on wildlife resource use: Spatial and temporal shifts in elephants’ access to water	8
Continued availability and sale of pangolins in a major urban bushmeat market in Cameroon despite national bans and the COVID‐19 outbreak	7
Diversity, distribution and regional conservation status of the Egyptian tree flora	7
Predicting the fine‐scale factors that correlate with multiple carnivore depredation of livestock in their enclosures	7
The Chief Goliath and the future of African ecology	7
Effectiveness of wildlife underpasses and culverts in connecting elephant habitats: a case study of new railway through Kenya’s Tsavo National Parks	7
Woody plant diversity, composition and structure in relation to environmental variables and land‐cover types in Lake Wanchi watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia	7
Metal strip fences for preventing African elephant (Loxodonta africana) crop foraging in the Kasigau Wildlife Corridor, Kenya	7
The influence of physical–chemical variables on phytoplankton and lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaiasminor) abundances in Lake Natron, Tanzania	7
The effects of human disturbance on the species composition, species diversity and functional diversity of a Miombo woodland in northern Malawi	6

Diet of nestling African woolly‐necked storks in suburban areas of KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa	6
Local community attitudes and perceptions towards benefits and challenges associated with biodiversity conservation in Blouberg Nature Reserve, South Africa	6
New geographical range of geladas (Theropithecus gelada) in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia	6
Bat activity and species richness in different land‐use types in and around Chome Nature Forest Reserve, Tanzania	6
Empty laws and empty forests: Reconsidering rights and governance for sustainable wildlife management in the Republic of the Congo	6
Density estimates of spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) on arid farmlands of Namibia	6
Few figs for frugivores: Riparian fig trees in Zimbabwe may not be a dry season keystone resource	6
Assessing the status of leopard in the Cape Fold Mountains using a Bayesian spatial capture–recapture model in Just Another Gibbs Sampler	6
Toad‐kill: Prey diversity and preference of invasive guttural toads (Sclerophrys gutturalis) in Mauritius	6
Rhino birth recovery and resilience to drought impact	6
Spatiotemporal sharing and partitioning of scent‐marking sites by cheetahs and leopards in north‐central Namibia	6
Effects of age and sex on site fidelity, movement ranges and home ranges of white and black rhinoceros translocated to the Okavango Delta, Botswana	6
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on livelihoods and wild meat use in communities surrounding the Dja Faunal Reserve, South‐East Cameroon	6
Time budgets and activity patterns of the southern gelada (Theropithecus gelada obscurus) in a human‐modified landscape, Wollo, Ethiopia	6
Distribution of the critically endangered Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) across a fragmented landscape in NW Madagascar	6
Insights into the status and distribution of pangolins in Togo (West Africa)	6
Human–wildlife conflict in Mhokwe Ward, Mbire District, North‐East Zimbabwe	5
Dietary partitioning of three large carnivores in Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi	5
Giraffe translocations: A review and discussion of considerations	5
Profiling the types of restaurants that sell wild meat in Central African cities	5
An assessment of human–wildlife conflicts in local communities bordering Chewore and Dande Safari areas in Mbire District, northern Zimbabwe	5
Pattern of seedling emergence and early growth in Avicennia germinans and Rhizophora racemosa along an experimental salinity gradient	5
Amphibian assemblages and diversity patterns in two forest ecosystems of South‐Eastern Nigeria	5
Do black‐backed jackals exhibit spatial partitioning with African wild dogs and lions?	5
Coexistence in an African pastoral landscape: Evidence that livestock and wildlife temporally partition water resources	5
Seed dispersal phenology of encroaching woody species in the Free State National Botanical Garden, South Africa	5
Giraffe taxonomy, geographic distribution and conservation	5
Re‐assessment of the endemic taxa in the Egyptian Flora	5
Species Diversity and Relative Abundance of Medium and Large‐Sized Wild Mammals: a study from Adaba Community Forest, West Arsi Zone, Southeast Ethiopia	5
Vertical stratification and seasonal changes of the avian community in Mount Cameroon lowland rainforest	5
Ecological networks as planning tools for African fragmented landscapes: Overcoming weaknesses for an effective connectivity conservation	5
Trophic ecology of an introduced top predator (Felis catus) on a small African oceanic islet (Santa Luzia, Cabo Verde Islands)	5
Community forests as beacons of conservation: Enabling local populations monitor their biodiversity	5
The future representativeness of Madagascar's protected area network in the face of climate change	5
Combining offtake and participatory data to assess the sustainability of a hunting system in northern Congo	5
High abundance and large proportion of medium and large duikers in an intact and unhunted afrotropical protected area: Insights into monitoring methods	5
Codon‐based analysis of selection pressure and genetic structure in the Psammobates tentorius (Bell, 1828) species complex, and phylogeny inferred from both codons and amino acid sequences	5
Deriving observation distances for camera trap distance sampling	5
Potential impact of climate change on the distribution of some selected legumes in Cameroon and adjoining Nigeria border	5
Coupling paraecology and hunter GPS self‐follows to quantify village bushmeat hunting dynamics across the landscape scale	4
Mapping rangeland ecosystems vulnerability to Lantana camara invasion in semi‐arid savannahs in South Africa	4
Awareness of traditional knowledge and attitudes towards wildlife conservation among Maasai communities: The case of Enkusero Sampu Conservancy, Kajiado County in Kenya	4
Impact of end‐of‐century climate change on priority non‐timber forest product species across tropical Africa	4
Illegal wildlife trade in Algeria, insight via online selling platforms	4
Local people’s knowledge of topi (Damaliscus lunatus) and their illegal hunting for bushmeat consumption in the Serengeti Ecosystem	4
Human depredation risk and flight initiation distance of birds in rural areas, Zimbabwe	4
Relationships of reproductive performance indicators in black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) with plant available moisture, plant available nutrients and woody cover	4
An assessment of avian species sold in the South African pet trade	4
New observations of four waterbird species in Algerian Sahara	4
Spatial and temporal overlap of caracal and serval in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania	4

Distribution of Temminck's pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) in South Africa, with evaluation of questionable historical and contemporary occurrence records	4
The Rough Bent‐toed Gecko Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827) (Squamata: Gekkonidae): First records in Algeria and NW Africa with morphometric and meristic description of population	4
Resource managers' and users' perspectives on factors contributing to unauthorised hunting in western Tanzania	4
A camera trap appraisal of species richness and community composition of medium and large mammals in a Miombo woodland reserve	4
Morph frequencies, sex ratios and infections in Danaus chrysippus populations in Rwanda	4
Multidimensional analysis of landscape dynamics in a Central African forest‐savannah mosaic	4
Effects of humans and large carnivores on the survival of black‐backed jackals	4
Trends in use of remotely sensed data in wetlands assessment and monitoring in Zimbabwe	4
Role of termites in the restoration of soils and plant richness on bowé in West Africa	4
A learning network approach to resolve conservation challenges in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area	4
Effect of high population density of eastern black rhinoceros, a mega‐browser, on the quality of its diet	4
Using by‐catch camera trapping data for estimating the population size of spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta)	4
Economic value of tropical inland freshwater shallow lakes: Lesson from Lake Malombe, Malawi	4
A range’s core should not only be important in research	4
Remote sensing of aboveground grass biomass between protected and non‐protected areas in savannah rangelands	4
The effects of the invasive species, Lantana camara, on regeneration of an African rainforest	4
A new method to determine the diet of pygmy hippopotamus in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	4
WILDMEAT interventions database: A new database of interventions addressing unsustainable wild meat hunting, consumption and trade	4
Estimating the distribution and habitat suitability for aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) in Kruger National Park, South Africa	3
Demographic consequences of habitat loss and crowding in large carnivores: A natural experiment	3
Several black servals from a single survey at the Luando Strict Nature Reserve, Angola	3
Small‐ and medium‐sized mammals of the Kafa Biosphere Reserve, Ethiopia	3
Impacts of African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) on tall trees and their recovery within a small, fenced reserve in South Africa	3
Survey of non‐native small mammals traded in South Africa	3
Factors influencing the diurnal behaviour of white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) in Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe	3
Rainfall, fire and large‐mammal‐induced drivers of Vachellia drepanolobium establishment: Implications for woody plant encroachment in Maswa, Tanzania	3
Vouchers control for illegal bushmeat transport and reveal dynamics of authorised wild meat trade in central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	3
Are elephants attracted by deforested areas in miombo woodlands?	3
Influence of ant–grass association on soil microbial activity through organic matter decomposition dynamics in Lamto savannah (Côte d’Ivoire)	3
Five small antelope species diets indicate different levels of anthrodependence in the Overberg Renosterveld, South Africa	3
Coprophagy of African wild dog faeces by spotted hyaenas and hooded vultures in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe	3
Mitigating crop raiding by forest elephants and baboons at Kibale National Park	3
Early insights into the movements of Malawi’s transboundary elephants	3
Assessment of the wild plants in the Egyptian botanic gardens; Nile region	3
Promoting harmony between local people and wild animals around the Humbo Community Managed Forest area, southern Ethiopia	3
Marula (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra, Anacardiaceae) thrives under climate change in sub‐Saharan Africa	3
Wildlife‐vehicle collisions in Moroccan Atlantic Sahara: Impact on resident species and Afro‐Palearctic birds for conservation purposes	3
Human–hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) conflict in the Wonchit Valley, South Wollo, Ethiopia	3
Insights into the illegal ivory trade and status of elephants in Togo, West Africa	3
Hyaenas play unique ecosystem role by recycling key nutrients in bones	3
Long‐distance African wild dog dispersal within the Kavango‐Zambezi transfrontier conservation area	3
Seasonal variation in grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) abundance in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania	3
Diet overlap of non‐native common carp and native Nile tilapia: A potential cause for population reduction of Nile tilapia stock in Lake Ziway, Ethiopia	3
Insights into the status and distribution of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in an understudied potential stronghold in southern Tanzania	3
Male impala (Aepyceros melampus) vocal activity throughout the rutting period in Namibia: daily and hourly patterns	3
Human‐wildlife conflicts in communities bordering a Savannah‐Fenced wildlife conservancy	3
Not all black and white: Records of several melanistic honey badgers in Niokolo‐Koba National Park, Senegal	3
Fine‐scale variation in soil and topography influences herbaceous vegetation and the distribution of large mammalian herbivores	3
Low diversity of fishes in high elevation Afrotromontane streams renders them unsuitable for biomonitoring	3
Masai giraffe population change over 40 years in Arusha National Park	3
Of meat and ritual: Consumptive and religious uses of pangolins in Mali	3
Above‐ground biomass and vegetation attributes in the forest‐savannah mosaic of Togo, West Africa	3
First photographed record of the naked‐rumped tomb bat, Taphozous nudiventris Cretzschmar, 1830 (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae), in the Grand Maghreb	3
Effect of disturbance on bird feeding guilds in a West African dry forest	3
African elephant (Loxodonta africana) select less fragmented landscapes to connect core habitats in human‐dominated landscapes	3
Space use and social interactions of Central African slender‐snouted crocodiles Mecistops leptorhynchus (Bennett, 1835) in Loango National Park, Gabon	2
First record of a Cape cobra Naja nivea (Reptilia: Squamata) preying on an aardwolf Proteles cristatus (Mammalia: Carnivora)	2
Ant and termite prey of the giant pangolin Smutsia gigantea Illiger, 1815 in forest–savannah mosaics of Cameroon	2
Predicting potential habitat suitability of Quercus suber L. in Algeria under climate change scenarios	2
Influence of season on leaf litter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) diversity in the locality of Minko'o (Southern, Cameroon)	2
Count me in: Leopard population density in an area of mixed land‐use, Eastern Cape, South Africa	2
Decline of the marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) in West Africa and the need for immediate conservation action	2
A camera trap survey in the community zone of Lobéké National Park (Cameroon) reveals a nearly intact mammalian community	2
Polistes paper wasps use a transient floating vegetation mat in the Banhine wetlands outflow, Mozambique	2
Progress in the remote sensing of veld fire occurrence and detection: A review	2
Lion reintroduction demonstrates that resident cheetah have a spatially reactive response to lion	2
Diversity and distribution of Fruit‐feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda	2
Land cover change of arid environment in Tunisia based on analysis of Landsat images	2
Predator–prey interaction between a boomslang, Dispholidus typus, and a flap‐necked chameleon, Chamaeleo dilepis	2
Distribution and threats to coconut crabs on Unguja, Zanzibar	2
Gastrointestinal parasites of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) and grey‐cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) at the Ngogo Research Site in Kibale National Park, Uganda	2
Note on the small mammals of small, isolated forest patches in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	2
Influences of seasons and dietary composition on diurnal raptor habitat use in Chembe Bird Sanctuary, Zambia: Implications for conservation	2
Camera trap inventory of wild mammals in the Hinda District, Republic of Congo	2
Monitoring human disturbance: Factors affecting escape behaviour of waterbirds in North African wetlands	2
Potential impact of climate change on spatial distribution of two savannah amphibian species in West Africa	2
Exploring spatio‐temporal trends and environmental drivers of wildfire occurrence and impacts in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa	2
Optimal foraging of lions at the human wildlands interface	2
Distribution, habitat use and human disturbance of gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) in the Ebo forest, Littoral Region, Cameroon	2
Longitudinal vegetation turnover in an eastern Rift Valley riparian corridor	2

Feeding ecology of the vulnerable aoudad (Ammotragus lervia) in north‐western Sahara	2
The status and population dynamic of Buffon’s kob (Kobus kob kob, ERXLEBEN 1777) in the Faro National Park, Northern Cameroon	2
Perception of Somali pastoralists in Adadle woreda, Eastern Ethiopia, towards wildlife at the human‐animal interface, conservation and wildlife population change	2
Does tenure influence sustainable use? The ecological impacts of harvesting baobab (Adansonia digitata)	2
Like a bat out of hell: Bats roosting in pit‐latrine cesspits	2
Community knowledge on factors behind extirpation of lion Panthera leo in Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa)	2
Benefits of brotherhood: Learning from cheetah space use changes when male coalitions collapse	2
Interspecific nest reuse between two species of waders in northern Sahara and an overview of records of mixed clutches in Algerian waterbirds	2
Epauletted fruit bats prefer native plants and contribute to seed dispersal in a South African agricultural landscape	2
Corruption and poaching in Algeria	2
Flowers are hidden in nonflying mammal‐pollinated plants to deter birds	2
Anthropozoic impacts on forest ecosystems: Case of the Zloul Valley (Ribat Al Khair Region, Morocco)	2
Anthropogenic risk increases night‐time activities and associations in African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Ruaha‐Rungwa ecosystem, Tanzania	2
Salt tolerance of the African haplotype of Phragmitesaustralis (Poaceae)	2
Viability analysis of Kordofan giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis antiquorum) in a protected area in Cameroon	2
Effects of wildfire on vegetation and understory avian communities in montane rainforests, north‐eastern Tanzania	2
Ecology in a troubled continent	2
An assessment of rodent‐flea diversity and association in a semi‐arid tropical ecosystem of south‐western Zimbabwe	2
The behaviour and fate of translocated bull African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) into a novel environment	2
Human impacts on mammal communities in Rio Campo Nature Reserve, Equatorial Guinea	2
‘Variations in phenological and functional traits in Thapsia garganica populations in Al Jebel Al Akhdar, Libya’	2
Termite mound density and distribution patterns across three land‐use types in the Vhembe District of the Limpopo Province, South Africa	2
Long‐term changes in population size and the age structure and sex ratio of waterbuck in a Sudanian savannah of Burkina Faso	2
Abundance and effects of climate change on geographical distribution of Mondia whitei (Hook.f.) Skeels (Apocynaceae) in the Dahomey Gap (West Africa)	2
Trace metal pollution and its impacts on the macroinvertebrate community assemblage in a tropical reservoir	2
Passive acoustic monitoring reveals behavioural response of African forest elephants to gunfire events	2
Sexual selection and endocrine profiles in wild South African giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalisgiraffa)	2
Environmental sustainability in Africa: Insight into paper consumption by an African university	2
Long‐distance African lion dispersal between two protected areas	2
Spatial distribution of an assemblage of an endemic genus of birds: an example from Madagascar	2
The effects of fire frequency on vegetation structure and mammal assemblages in a savannah‐woodland system	2
Land use induced land cover changes and future scenarios in extent of Miombo woodland and Dambo ecosystems in the Copperbelt province of Zambia	2