Brice Yannick Djiofack

Loft et al. (2024) argue that bistable African savannas have important biodiversity value and merit conservation. Although we agree with this main concern, here we show that their comment is based on incomplete reading of our discussion section on ‘Bottlenecks and uncertainties’ and on fundamental misunderstanding of our methods, intentions, and recommendations (Djiofack et al., 2024). Loft et al. wrongly claim that we excluded savanna species from our analysis.

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