Is there evidence for a Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis) in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa? - Comments on Stidham (2008) by A. Manegold, A. Louchart

“…Recently, a fossil Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis) was described from Middle Stone Age Plovers Lake Cave, South Africa.1 Because this species is now restricted to rainforests in the Congo Basin, it was concluded that the fossil indicates forested, or even rainforest, habitats in the vicinity of Plovers Lake Cave during the Pleistocene.1 The correct identification of the fossil specimen is, however, questionable, and the hypothesis of densely forested areas in this area 71 000 years ago is at odds with manifold evidence that grasslands and open woodlands predominated the palaeoenvironment in Pleistocene southern Africa.…”
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Is there evidence for a Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis) in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa? - Comments on Stidham (2008) by A. Manegold, A. Louchart

“…Recently, a fossil Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis) was described from Middle Stone Age Plovers Lake Cave, South Africa.1 Because this species is now restricted to rainforests in the Congo Basin, it was concluded that the fossil indicates forested, or even rainforest, habitats in the vicinity of Plovers Lake Cave during the Pleistocene.1 The correct identification of the fossil specimen is, however, questionable, and the hypothesis of densely forested areas in this area 71 000 years ago is at odds with manifold evidence that grasslands and open woodlands predominated the palaeoenvironment in Pleistocene southern Africa.…”
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Longest sediment flows yet measured show how major rivers connect efficiently to deep sea by Peter J. Talling, Megan L. Baker, Ed L. Pope, Sean C. Ruffell, Ricardo Silva Jacinto, Maarten S. Heijnen, Sophie Hage, Stephen M. Simmons, Martin Hasenhündl, Catharina J. Heerema, Claire McGhee, Ronan Apprioual, Anthony Ferrant, Matthieu J. B. Cartigny, Daniel R. Parsons, Michael A. Clare, Raphael M. Tshimanga, Mark A. Trigg, Costa A. Cula, Rui Faria, Arnaud Gaillot, Gode Bola, Dec Wallance, Allan Griffiths, Robert Nunny, Morelia Urlaub, Christine Peirce, Richard Burnett, Jeffrey Neasham, Robert J. Hilton

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Is there evidence for a Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis) in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa? – Comments on Stidham (2008) by A. Manegold, A. Louchart

“…Recently, a fossil Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis) was described from Middle Stone Age Plovers Lake Cave, South Africa.1 Because this species is now restricted to rainforests in the Congo Basin, it was concluded that the fossil indicates forested, or even rainforest, habitats in the vicinity of Plovers Lake Cave during the Pleistocene.1 The correct identification of the fossil specimen is, however, questionable, and the hypothesis of densely forested areas in this area 71 000 years ago is at odds with manifold evidence that grasslands and open woodlands predominated the palaeoenvironment in Pleistocene southern Africa.…”
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Studies in the genus <i>Riccia</i> (Marchantiales) from southern Africa. 24. <i>R. moenkemeyeri</i>, subgenus <i>Ricciella</i>: new records by S. M. Perold

“…It is clearly a plastic species (Jones 1957) and is widely distributed in tropical Africa, from Sierra Leone (as R. undulata), Nigeria, Cameroon and into the Congo Basin. Until recendy, Sim’s specimens from the Matopos in Zimbabwe, were the most southerly records known, but the species has now also been collected in southern Africa, just east of Pretoria and at Kransberg, in the western Transvaal.…”
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Ethnoecology and ethnomedicinal use of fish among the Bakwele of southeastern Cameroon by Takanori Oishi

“…Because of the current bushmeat trade crisis, the aquatic resources in the Congo Basin rainforest are increasingly viewed has promising alternate resources and have recently drawn the attention of conservation and development agencies. …”
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La cartographie participative, un outil au service de la gouvernance foncière by Juscar Ndjounguep

“…Examples of participatory mapping applied in Cameroon and Congo Basin by various actors are using various methodologies. …”
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Analyse de l’effet de la concurrence végétale sur la croissance de l’Iroko (Milicia excelsa) en forêt dense tropicale perturbée de l’Est–Cameroun by L. Mbonayem, K.S. Bobo

“…This study was conducted in disturbed heterogeneous population in the dense forest of the Congo Basin and can serve as a starting point for developing an approach to identifying the role of each environmental factor in the growth process of the species in heterogeneous forest and useful for future development of allometric growth patterns of tropical species.…”
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A revision of Syngalepsus Beier, with the description of two new species from the Central African Republic and Malawi (Mantodea, Tarachodidae) by Nicolas Moulin

“…All species included within the subgenus Syngalepsus are comprehensively revised with a distribution stretching from North of Congo Basin to South Africa. Two new species of Galepsus (Syngalepsus) Beier, 1954 (Mantodea, Tarachodidae) from the Central African Republic (CAR) and Malawi are described. …”
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Estimation of sprite occurrences in Central Africa by Martin Füllekrug, Colin Price

“…This charge density is used to determine promising locations for optical sprite observations in the central Congo basin and Cameroon with ca. 69 estimated sprite occurrences during an average night.…”
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Animal-fungal interactions 3: first report of mycophagy by the African Brush-tailed Porcupine Atherurus africanus Gray, 1842 (Mammalia: Rodentia: Hystricidae) by Todd F. Elliott, Camille Truong, Olivier Séné, Terry W. Henkel

“…In this short note based on an observation from the Congo Basin of Cameroon, we provide the first report of mycophagy by the African brush-tailed porcupine and the first account of the hypogeous fungal genus Elaphomyces being eaten by an animal in Africa.…”
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Ethnozoology of bushmeat by Romain Duda, Sandrine Gallois, Victoria Reyes-García

“…In the Congo Basin, food is an everyday concern and its acquisition and transformation often structure many of the activities of a human group. …”
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Logging Concessions and Local Livelihoods in Cameroon: from Indifference to Alliance? by Guillaume Lescuyer, Samuel Assembe Mvondo, Julienne Nadège Essoungou, Vincent Toison, Jean-François Trébuchon, Nicolas Fauvet

“…This requirement is explicitly stated in all forest laws of the Congo Basin countries but its implementation on the field remains under documented. …”
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La boucle de l’Anthropocène au Sahel : nature et sociétés face aux grands projets environnementaux (Grande Muraille Verte, Sauvegarde du lac Tchad) by Géraud Magrin, Ronan Mugelé

“…In the Sahel, two examples of these environmental mega projects are designed to combat both desertification and climate change: the construction of the Great Green Wall (GGW) aims to replant degraded soils in semi-arid areas through large-scale planting, while the rescue of Lake Chad consists in developing a water transfer from the Congo Basin to Lake Chad, which is perceived as drying up. …”
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Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest by Bleasdale, M, Wotzka, H-P, Eichhorn, B, Mercader, J, Styring, A, Zech, J, Soto, M, Inwood, J, Clarke, S, Marzo, S, Fiedler, B, Linseele, V, Boivin, N, Roberts, P

“…Here, we utilise stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O) of human and animal remains and charred food remains, as well as plant microparticles from dental calculus, to assess the importance of incoming crops in the Congo Basin. Our data, spanning the early Iron Age to recent history, reveals variation in the adoption of cereals, with a persistent focus on forest and freshwater resources in some areas. …”

CRETACEOUS CONCHOSTRACANS FROM ALAGOAS BASIN (NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL) by Mitsuru Arai, Ismar de Souza Carvalho

“…The existence of some Early Cretaceous African species presenting great morphological similarities with Cyzicus pricei [e.g., Cyzicus kasaiensis (Marlière) from Congo Basin] suggests that Brazil and Africa shared common conchostracofaunas during the Early Cretaceous. …”
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Caractéristiques physicochimiques et composition en acides gras des huiles de Raphia sese et Raphia laurentii by Silou, T., Makonzo-Mokandi, C., Profizi, JR., Boussoukou, A., Maloumbi, G.

“…In the sight of the diversification of sources of lipids consumed by the congolese populations and of the valorization of the vast marshes of north of the Congo (Brazzaville), it was carried out a physico-chemical study of the oils extracted from the raphia palm trees which abundantly populate the flooded forests of the Congo basin. Two species were studied here : Raphia sese and Raphia Laurentii. …”
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Fire-derived phosphorus fertilization of African tropical forests by Marijn Bauters, Travis W. Drake, Sasha Wagner, Simon Baumgartner, Isaac A. Makelele, Samuel Bodé, Kris Verheyen, Hans Verbeeck, Corneille Ewango, Landry Cizungu, Kristof Van Oost, Pascal Boeckx

“…Here the authors show that biomass burning leads to high phosphorus deposition in the Congo basin, which scales with forest age as a result of increasing canopy complexity.…”
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Monkeypox: Some Keys to Understand This Emerging Disease by Esperanza Gomez-Lucia

“…There are two clades of MPXV, Congo Basin, with higher virulence and mortality, and Western Africa (WA). …”
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Shallow plumbing systems inferred from spatial analysis of pockmark arrays by R Maia, A, Cartwright, J, Andersen, E

“…This study describes and analyses an extraordinary array of pockmarks at the modern seabed of the Lower Congo Basin (offshore Angola), in order to understand the fluid migration routes and shallow plumbing system of the area. …”