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Spatio-temporal dynamics of suitable habitats for Detarium microcarpum Guill. & Perr. (Caesalpiniaceae), a priority food tree species in Benin (West Africa)

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Detarium microcarpum (Caesalpiniaceae) is a priority, multipurpose, and indigenous food tree species in West Africa. However, data related to its efficient conservation and sustainable use, through changing ecological environments, are still lacking. Thus, species occurrence records were combined with climatic and soil data in Maximum Entropy (Maxent), a species distribution modelling algorithm, to evaluate the impacts of future environmental conditions (under CNRM-CM5 and HadGEM2-ES) on the species’ potential distribution in Benin. Results indicated that the species’ present potential distribution range was mainly found in the Sudanian and Sudano-Guinean ecological regions. Some extensions and retractions of the present-day distribution (lowly, moderately and highly suitable habitats) were noted under future climates based on the two scenarios. Introduction of D. microcarpum in suitable habitats are required for its efficient conservation in West Africa.

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Acknowledgements

The authors declare their gratitude to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESRS) of the Republic of Benin for having awarded the scholarship for this work, which is part of a thesis project of Doctorate for the first author. Acknowledgments are also extended to the members of the Village Association for the Management of Forest Resources (AVIGREF) of the different classified and sacred prospected forests, to the sirs Aimé Malo DJESSOU and Brice AHOUANSOMBO BADE for their contributions. They also thank the Colleagues of the Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forestry Estimations (LABEF) of the University of Abomey-Calavi, in particular Mr Eunock do-REGO and Mrs Donalde DEGUENON.

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  1. Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire et d’Analyse des Génomes, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, 01BP 526, Cotonou, Benin

    Relique Ignace Agbo, Antoine Abel Missihoun, Rollande Aladé Dagba & Clément Agbangla

  2. Laboratoire de Génétique et des Biotechnologies, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, 01BP 526, Cotonou, Benin

    Relique Ignace Agbo, Antoine Abel Missihoun, Rollande Aladé Dagba & Clément Agbangla

  3. Laboratoire d’Ecologie Appliquée, Facultés des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, 01 BP 526, Cotonou, Benin

    Rodrigue Idohou, Romaric Vihotogbé & Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo

  4. Laboratoire de Biomathématiques et d’Estimations Forestières, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, 01 BP 526, Cotonou, Benin

    Rodrigue Idohou

  5. Ecole de Foresterie Tropicale, Université Nationale d’Agriculture, Bénin, 01 BP 55, Porto-Novo, Benin

    Romaric Vihotogbé

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Agbo, R.I., Idohou, R., Vihotogbé, R. et al. Spatio-temporal dynamics of suitable habitats for Detarium microcarpum Guill. & Perr. (Caesalpiniaceae), a priority food tree species in Benin (West Africa). Model. Earth Syst. Environ. 5, 595–604 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-018-0550-x

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