Mohammed Armani
The researcher's work focuses on integrating ecological patterns across diverse domains, examining how ecosystems respond to environmental changes and human interventions. Their studies highlight the interconnectedness of plant-parasitic behaviors driving species distribution, energy impacts on climate resilience, and fire effects shaping ecosystem dynamics. They also address social implications in managing biodiversity and environmental justice.
Faculty Biography
Dr. Armani is a plant ecologist and a natural resource management expert with over 7 years working experience in the forestry and agricultural sectors in West Africa. He has extensive experience in environmental sustainability and commodity certification schemes, encompassing setting up, auditing, and verifying forestry and agribusinesses to various sustainability and certification standards (e.g., Forest Stewardship Council, Rainforest Alliance, and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil). His interest and expertise also cover stakeholder engagement, training and capacity building in the forestry and agricultural sectors. Dr. Armani actively engaged in ongoing sustainability discussions and platforms in the cocoa sector in Ghana (e.g., Cocoa Talk, discussions on the EU’s deforestation-free Agro-commodity policy).His research interest spans plant species and vegetation science; plant-herbivore interactions; people, nature, and livelihoods; and sustainable Agro-ecological practices in West Africa. He uses a combination of fieldwork, common garden experiment, on-farm participatory research, and data synthesis to provide insights into contemporary sustainable development issues in West Africa.He is a member of several professional associations including the Association for Tropical Biology for Conservation (ATBC), British Ecological Society (BES) and the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS). He is currently a co-editor on a Special Issue on Forests for Sustainable Development and Climate Resilience for the Journal of Sustainable Forestry. Dr. Armani is an active reviewer for several societies and journals including the British Ecological Society Review College, Journal of Ecology and Plant Ecology and Diversity.You can read more about Dr. Mohammed Armani on this link.
Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Climate Change and Health Impacts
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Energy and Environment Impacts
Fire effects on ecosystems
Plant and animal studies
Plant Ecology and Soil Science
Reproductive Biology and Fertility
Six principles to get natural climate solutions right in Africa
The macroecology of spines on woody plants
Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation
Open AccessOpen letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored
Open AccessViability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management
Equity and justice should underpin the discourse on tipping points
Open AccessSpinescence and the Island Plant Defense Syndrome
Equity and Justice should underpin the discourse on Tipping Points
Open AccessPlant apparency drives leaf herbivory in seedling communities across four subtropical forests
Review for "Allometry rather than abiotic drivers explains biomass allocation among leaves, stems and roots of <i>Artemisia</i> across a large environmental gradient in China"
Open AccessStructural defence is coupled with the leaf economic spectrum across saplings of spiny species
Open AccessPlant apparency drives leaf herbivory in seedling communities across four subtropical forests
Open AccessDevelopmental constraints and resource environment shape early emergence and investment in spines in saplings
Open AccessCompositional patterns of overstorey and understorey woody communities in a forest–savanna boundary in Ghana
Department of Wildlife and Range Management
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology