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International Journal of Biodiversity Andconservation OPEN ACCESS International Journal of Biodiversity andConservation May 2018 ISSN 2141-243X DOI: 10.5897/IJBC www.academicjournals.org ABOUT IJBC The International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation (IJBC) (ISSN2141-243X) is published Monthly (one volume per year) by Academic Journals. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation (IJBC)provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as Information Technology and its Applications in Environmental Management and Planning, Environmental Management and Technologies, Green Technology and Environmental Conservation, Health: Environment and Sustainable Development etc. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published shortly after acceptance. All articles published in IJBC are peer reviewed. 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Chandrabani P.R.China Dehradun- 248001. Uttarakhand Laghetti Gaetano Dr. MulugetaTaye Institute of Plant Genetics (National Research Production Ecology and Resource Council) Conservation/Horticulture/ Via g. Amendola, 165/a - 70126 – bari. Rural Development Italy Institute of Agriculture and Development Studies Ethiopia OseiYeboah North Carolina Agricultural Technical State Dr. Murugan Sankaran University Breeding and Biotechnology of Horticultural Crops 1601 east market street, greensboro, nc 27441 Division of Horticulture and Forestry Central Agricultural Research Institute, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti Port Blair-744101, A&N Islands University of Tuscia (viterbo) India Via San Camillo de Lellis, Snc 01100 Viterbo, Italy Seyed Kazem Sabbagh Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zzabol, Iran, siastan –balochistan, Zabol, 4km Bonjarddv. Uzoma Darlington Chima University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Dept. of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, P.M.B. 5323 Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Dr. Vu Dinh Thong Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology 18 Hoang Quoc Viet road, caugiay district, Hanoi, Vietnam Yusuf Garba Bayero University, Kano P.M.B 3011 Kano - Nigeria Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Bayero University, Kano International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation InternationalJournalofMedicine and MedicalSciences Table of Contents: Volume 10 Number 5 May 2018 ARTICLES How far can climate changes help to conserve and restore Garcinia kola Heckel, an extinct species in the wild in Benin (West Africa) 203 Akotchiffor Kévin G. DJOTAN, Augustin Kossi N. AOUDJI, Sylvie Akouavi F. CODJIA, Alain J. GBÈTOHO, Kourouma KOURA and Jean Cossi GANGLO Habitat biophysical and spatial patterns assessment within Oti-Keran-Mandouri protected area network in Togo 214 Aniko Polo-Akpisso, Fousseni Folega, Ouattara Soulemane, Wouyo Atakpama, Mamadou Coulibaly, Kpérkouma Wala, Achim Röder, Koffi Akpagana and Tano Yao Effects of bush encroachment on plant composition, diversity and carbon stock in Borana rangelands, Southern Ethiopia 230 Siraj Kelil Gobelle and Abdella Gure Study of floral diversity from rural pockets of Odisha, India: Plants for fun and games 246 Mahendra K. Satapathy, Sidhanta S. Bisoi and Sanjeeb K. Das Qualitative traits variation in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) landraces from the Southern highlands of Ethiopia 258 Addisu Fekadu, Fantahun Woldesenbet and Shumet Tenaw Vol. 10(5), pp. 203-213, May 2018 DOI: 10.5897/IJBC2018.1180 Article Number: 57B1F1256670 International Journal of Biodiversity and ISSN 2141-243X Copyright © 2018 Conservation Author(s) retain the copyright of this article http://www.academicjournals.org/IJBC Full Length Research Paper How far can climate changes help to conserve and restore Garcinia kola Heckel, an extinct species in the wild in Benin (West Africa) Akotchiffor Kévin G. DJOTAN*, Augustin Kossi N. AOUDJI, Sylvie Akouavi F. CODJIA, Alain J. GBÈTOHO, Kourouma KOURA and Jean Cossi GANGLO Laboratoire des Sciences Forestières, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, BP: 1493 Calavi, Bénin. Received 4 February, 2018; Accepted 9 March, 2018 A study was conducted to assess how well climate changes can help to conserve and restore Garcinia kola Heckel in the Protected Area Network (PAN) and in urban areas in Benin. To achieve this, occurrence data from GBIF was used and the environmental data from AfriClim was used in order to model the species’ potential habitat under current and future climates. The maximum entropy modeling approach of MaxEnt was used with scenarios RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 for future predictions. Geographic information systems were used to establish the high confidence prediction areas (HCPA) for G. kola. Gap analysis was performed throughout PAN and municipalities with regard to the HCPA. Considering the climate envelop, results revealed that climate change prooved to have only positive consequences on the distribution of the species. Moreover, considering the HCPA, the percentage of municipalities that were suitable for the species is far above the percentage of PAN that was predicted as suitable (7.44% versus 0.93%). RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 indicated respectively 3.00 and 6.27% of PAN as positive climate change impact zones. As for the municipalities, it was respectively 13.60 and 17.60% of the total municipalities areas. Therefore, it is not worth relying
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