Anthropisation des paysages d'Afrique: structure spatiale, typologies, impact écologique

The problematique of anthropogenic disturbance on African landscapes is studied within the double framework of DPSIR (Drivers Pressures States Impact Response) and Pattern/Process Paradygm (Landscape Ecology). 20 landscae images from D.R. Congo, Ivory Coast and Benin were studied using indexes of spatial (compositional and configurational) heterogeneity and anthropogenic disturbance in order to highlight the relationship between spatial structure and disturbance intensity. The results show maximal heterogeneity at intermediate anthropogenic disturbances and fasten the triangular relationship between anthropogenic effect, biodiversity and spatial heterogeneity, that had been partially theoretised with the intermidiate disturbance and habitat heterogeneity hypotheses