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.

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