Editor-in-Chief: Luca Luiselli
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The African Journal of Ecology explores the conservation and ecology of African animals and plants. Being the foremost ecology journal devoted to the continent, we have a wide circulation both within and outside of Africa.
Covering diverse ecosystems and species, we foster understanding of Africa's unique biodiversity. Our journal provides a platform for scientists and conservationists to contribute valuable insights. We publish the best international research on African ecology, offering authors the option to publish open access.
African Journal of Ecology welcomes Luca Luiselli, who has joined us as Editor-in-Chief
Luca Luiselli is a tropical ecologist primarily working in African ecosystems for over 25 years. He is the president of “IDECC—Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation and Cooperation” and he obtained the national habilitation as a Full Professor of “Ecology” for the Italian public university network in 2014. He is professor of “Biostatistics” and “Population Ecology” at the University of Lomé (Togo) since 2017 and he has been teaching “Biostatistics” and later “Tropical Ecology” at the University Roma Tre (Italy) since 2008.
Luiselli has served as a senior editor on a number of publications. During his career, Luiselli has won many grants and awards for ecological research in Africa (e.g., National Geographic) and is the vice-chair (Africa) for the IUCN/SSC Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles Specialist Group. He conducted long-term ecological researches in Nigeria, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and South Sudan, but sporadically in other African countries (Liberia, Benin, Ghana, Uganda, Algeria, Mali, Niger, Madagascar).
His research focuses on the community ecology, interspecific competition and conservation of African forest reptiles. Luiselli's other main research interests include the study of the ecology of West African forests, small mammals and beetles, and the long-term analysis of bushmeat in West Africa in relation to the changing social and cultural aspects of human communities and the recent epidemic crises of EBOLA and COVID-19.
Articles
Population Expansion but Limited Gene Flow in Kuhl's Blue-Spotted Maskray Along the Tanzanian Coast
-  6 November 2024
Long‐Term Impacts of Selective Logging in a Tropical Rainforest in the East Region of Cameroon
-  29 October 2024
Killer Whale Predation on a Giant Manta Ray (Mobula birostris), a Sicklefin Devil Ray (Mobula tarapacana) and a Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) in the Southwest Indian Ocean
-  29 October 2024
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
A gentle introduction to camera‐trap data analysis
-  740-749
-  29 November 2018
AFRICLIM: high-resolution climate projections for ecological applications in Africa
-  103-108
-  15 September 2014
Evaluating relative abundance indices for terrestrial herbivores from large‐scale camera trap surveys
-  791-803
-  29 November 2018
Eating and conserving bushmeat in Africa
-  402-414
-  19 November 2016
The Indian Ocean dipole – the unsung driver of climatic variability in East Africa
-  4-16
-  21 December 2006
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