N’Guessan R. AKAFFOU

Does Fire Exclusion Impact Insect Communities? An Insight with Ants in Three Habitat Types from Lamto Scientific Reserve, Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa

Lombart M.M. KOUAKOU, Dakélé C-V. YODE, Bareremna Afelu, N’Guessan R. AKAFFOU & Mouhamadou KONE · Journal of Applied Life Sciences International · 2025

Vegetation fires remain one of the primary causes of habitat degradation and biodiversity loss in tropical forest-savanna mosaic ecosystems. However, their impact on certain components of biodiversity is often understudied, especially when fire is excluded from a given ecosystem...