Large mammal population trends in Comoé National Park (1958–2022): Towards understanding their asymmetric decline and recovery in West Africa’s largest savanna park

• Paul Scholte ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: PaulT.Scholte@gmail.com

  Affiliations Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, previously Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3813-7363

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• Olivier Pays,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Université Angers, BIODIVAG, Angers, France, REHABS International Research Laboratory, CNRS-Université de Lyon 1-Nelson Mandela University, George, South Africa

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• Bertrand Chardonnet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Protected Areas & Wildlife, Paris, France

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• Amara Ouattara,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office Ivoirien des Parcs et des Réserves (OIPR), Direction Nord-Est, Bouna, Côte d’Ivoire

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3886-4306

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• Djafarou Tiomoko

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations previously Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Protected Areas Management Specialist, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

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