“…The consequences of deforestation on mangrove fauna have not yet been documented in West Africa. The significant role of crabs as a engineer species starts to be recognized, but their ecological answers with respect to human pressures are poorly known compared to other aspects of their life such as diversity, distribution, sex ratio, ecological roles, feeding ecology, plant periodical migrations, physiological adaptations, domestic wastewater effects,… [22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]. So, the aim of this study is to determine the impact of human pressures on mangrove crab biodiversity in Cameroon.…”