Volume 80, Issue 1, August 2025, Pages 25–34
Sounan Gatien TOURE1, N’Guessan Olivier Yao2, Ménéké Distel KOUGBO3, Richard Kouassi KOUADIO4, and Konan Edouard KOUASSI5
1 Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Laboratoire des Systématiques Herbiers et Musée botanique, UFR Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
3 UFR Sciences de la Nature, Ecology and Biodiversity Unit, Nangui Abrogoua University, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
4 National Center for Agronomic Research, Forest and Environment Program, Côte d’Ivoire
5 Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Lecturer-Researcher at the Laboratory of «Natural Environments and Conservation of Biodiversity» of the UFR Biosciences, Associate Researcher at the National Center for Floristics (CNF), Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: English
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The Aghien estate, the site of this study, is part of the dynamic of creating a new peri-urban nature reserve. Following the regression of the surface areas of protected areas by human activities within the Ivorian parks and reserves, the partial Aghien nature reserve was created to allow the survival of this particular ecosystem, essential for the preservation of the peri-urban forest and the conservation of biological diversity. The general objective of this study is to assess the floristic diversity of the Partial Nature Reserve of Aghien. To do this, 36 plots of 625m2 (25 m x 25 m) each were first distributed in six (06) biotopes of the partial nature reserve of Aghien (RNPA). These are rubber plantation (n = 6) palm plantation (n = 6), secondary forest (n = 6), swamp meadow (n = 6), fallow land (n = 6), Bare soil (n = 6). Then botanical inventories based on itinerant and surface survey methods were carried out in each plot. A total of 265 species divided into 174 genera and 63 families were inventoried in the RNPA. Finally, the assessment of the floristic composition of the vegetation and that of the floristic composition of the vegetation were determined by the floristic variability and the diversity indices.
Author Keywords: Vegetation, Floristic diversity, Nature reserve, Aghien.
Sounan Gatien TOURE1, N’Guessan Olivier Yao2, Ménéké Distel KOUGBO3, Richard Kouassi KOUADIO4, and Konan Edouard KOUASSI5
1 Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Laboratoire des Systématiques Herbiers et Musée botanique, UFR Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
3 UFR Sciences de la Nature, Ecology and Biodiversity Unit, Nangui Abrogoua University, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
4 National Center for Agronomic Research, Forest and Environment Program, Côte d’Ivoire
5 Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Lecturer-Researcher at the Laboratory of «Natural Environments and Conservation of Biodiversity» of the UFR Biosciences, Associate Researcher at the National Center for Floristics (CNF), Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: English
Copyright © 2025 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The Aghien estate, the site of this study, is part of the dynamic of creating a new peri-urban nature reserve. Following the regression of the surface areas of protected areas by human activities within the Ivorian parks and reserves, the partial Aghien nature reserve was created to allow the survival of this particular ecosystem, essential for the preservation of the peri-urban forest and the conservation of biological diversity. The general objective of this study is to assess the floristic diversity of the Partial Nature Reserve of Aghien. To do this, 36 plots of 625m2 (25 m x 25 m) each were first distributed in six (06) biotopes of the partial nature reserve of Aghien (RNPA). These are rubber plantation (n = 6) palm plantation (n = 6), secondary forest (n = 6), swamp meadow (n = 6), fallow land (n = 6), Bare soil (n = 6). Then botanical inventories based on itinerant and surface survey methods were carried out in each plot. A total of 265 species divided into 174 genera and 63 families were inventoried in the RNPA. Finally, the assessment of the floristic composition of the vegetation and that of the floristic composition of the vegetation were determined by the floristic variability and the diversity indices.
Author Keywords: Vegetation, Floristic diversity, Nature reserve, Aghien.
How to Cite this Article
Sounan Gatien TOURE, N’Guessan Olivier Yao, Ménéké Distel KOUGBO, Richard Kouassi KOUADIO, and Konan Edouard KOUASSI, “Floristic diversity of the partial Aghien nature reserve (Bingerville, Southern Côte d’Ivoire),” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 25–34, August 2025.
