Position

Scientific Coordinator

Research interests

• Ordination methods in plant community ecology
• Plant Ecology and Conservation
• Agroforestry systems analysis
• Forest mensurations
• Animal-Plant interactions

Awards and distinctions

• 2015: Society for Conservation Biology travel awards to attend for the 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology and 4th European Congress for Conservation Biology-Montpellier (France)
• 2015: Tropical Biology Association travel awards to attend the 2nd TAAG African Students’ Conference in Conservation Science-Accra (Ghana)
• 2015: IDEA-WILD equipment grant for assessing impact of elephant pressure on spatial pattern of Borassus aethiopum Mart in the Pendjari National Park
• 2014: Selected to participate to the SCB mentorship program 2014-2015
• 2013: University of Abomey-Calavi PhD research fellowship for study on Ethnobotany, Ecology and conservation of the wild palm Borassus aethiopum Mart. (Arecaceae) in Benin.
• 2013: International Foundation for Science-IFS Research Grant for “Assessing the impacts of organs harvesting on population structure and reproductive performance of the wild palm Borassus aethiopum Mart. (Arecaceae) in Benin”. Research Grant N° D/5448-1.
• 2013: World Bank Trust Funds for Statistical Capacity Building : Conference grant, for the 2nd Edition of the International Conference on Applied Statistics for Development in Africa (http://sada2013.sciencesconf.org/), Cotonou, Benin, March 5-8, 2013
• 2013: International Statistical Institute (ISI) and World Bank Trust Funds for Statistical Capacity Building: Training grant, for the “Young Statisticians Day” (Cotonou, Benin, March 4, 2013) in prelude to the 2nd Edition of the International Conference on Applied Statistics for Development in Africa (http://sada2013.sciencesconf.org/), Cotonou, Benin, March 5-8, 2013
• 2013: Conservation Science Group full bursary to attend the 14th Student Conference on Conservation Science and a short course on data mining using R-Software at the University of Cambridge, UK.
• 2013: Institut Français du Bénin-Direction Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (IFB-DNRST). Prize for Best scientific poster of the year 2013 in Benin on « Mise au point d’une technique d’échantillonnage pour la caractérisation floristique en forêt dense au Bénin ».
• 2012: Coopération Universitaire pour le Déveleppement (CUD-RESBIO) Prize for the best RESBIO-Master Student.
• 2011: Belgium-West African countries master program (RESBIO) Full scholarship for M.Sc. studies in Management of Natural Resources and Biodiversity.
• 2011: “Africa Scientific Rebirth” Prize. Prize for the Best Engineer Dissertation of the academic year 2009-2010 of Benin universities in the field of ‘’Management of Natural Resources”. Delivered by the Beninese center of scientific and technical research (CBRST).
• 2005-2010: Full national scholarship for agronomic studies

Profiles and Curriculum

• Google Scholars page
• Research Gate
• Curriculum Vitae

Total number of publications

• Articles scientifiques publiés dans les journaux: 11
• Communications: 12
• Documents techniques: 3

Key publications

1. Salako V.K., Assogbadjo A.E., Adomou A.C., Agbangla C., Glèlè Kakaï R.L. (in press). Latitudinal distribution, co-occurring tree species and structural diversity of the threatened palm Borassus aethiopum (Arecaceae) in Benin, West-Africa. Plant Ecology and Evolution.
2. Salako V.K., Fandohan B., Assogbadjo A.E., Idohou F.A.R., Gbedomon R.C., Abdou Ibrahima W., Chakeredza S., Dulllo M.E., Glèlè Kakaï R. 2014. Home gardens: An assessment of their biodiversity and potential contribution to conservation of threatened species and crop wild relatives in Benin. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 61: 313–330.
3. Salako V.K., Glèlè Kakaï R., Assogbadjo A.E., Fandohan B., Houinato M., Palm R. 2013. Efficiency of inventory plots patterns in the quantitative analysis of vegetation: case study of tropical woodland and dense forest in Benin. Southern forests 75 (3): 137–143.
4. Salako V.K., Adebanji A., Glèlè Kakaï R. 2013. On The Empirical Performance Of Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling In Vegetation Studies. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics 36 (6): 54-67.
5. Fandohan B., Assogbadjo A.E., Salako V.K., Van Damme P., Sinsin B. 2012. Which one comes first, the tamarind or the Macrotermes termitarium? Acta Botanica Gallica 159 (3): 345–355.