Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi (PhD)

Position: Senior Research Scientist 
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Professional Fields of Interest:

  • Forest responses to global change
  • Production ecology and biogeochemistry
  • Carbon and nutrient cycling
  • Forest population dynamics
  • Belowground processes
  • Restoration of ecosystem processes in degraded landscapes

Professional background

  1. M.Phil. Forestry (Silviculture & Forest Mgt.), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana

  2. B.Sc. Forestry (Natural Resources Mgt.), KNUST

Publications

Duah-Gyamfi, A., E.K. Swaine, K.A. Adam, M.A. Pinard, and M.D. Swaine. 2014. Can   harvesting for timber in tropical forest enhance timber tree regeneration? Forest Ecology and Management 314: 26-37.

Duah-Gyamfi, A., K. Boateng, K.A. Adam, V.K. Agyeman and M.D. Swaine. 2014. Natural    regeneration dynamics of tree seedlings on skid trails and tree gaps following selective logging in a Moist Tropical Semi-deciduous Forest in Ghana. Open Journal of Forestry 4 (1), 49 - 57.

Oduro, K.A., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Acquah, S.B. and Agyeman, V.K. 2012. Ghana Forestry Statistics    Handbook: A compendium of statistics about forest and wildlife resources, forestry-related issues and wood processing in Ghana. FC, Ghana.

Other refereed journal articles, invited conference presentations, research, consultancy and technical reports can be supplied upon request (also listed at ResearchGate).

About us

Forestry Research Institute of Ghana is one of the 13 institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). It is located at Fumesua near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It started as a research unit within the Forestry Department in 1962. It was fully established as a research institute and named FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (FPRI) under the then Ghana Academy of Sciences in 1964 and in 1968 placed under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

Contact us

The Director
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, P. O. Box UP 63 KNUST
Kumasi, Ghana

Tel :+233-(0)3220-60123/60373
Fax :+233-(0)3220-60121
Email : [email protected]