New land-cover maps of Ghana for 2015 using Landsat 8 and three popular classifiers for biodiversity assessment

KO Hackman, P Gong, J Wang - International Journal of Remote …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Remote-sensing products provide opportunities to monitor complex phenomena on the
Earth from space for good decision-making. An example is land-cover maps, which are …

Tree and trait diversity, species coexistence, and diversity-functional relations of green spaces in Kumasi, Ghana

BF Nero, BB Campion, N Agbo, D Callo-Concha… - Procedia …, 2017 - Elsevier
Conserving biodiversity in cities is essential to halting global biodiversity loss. Nevertheless,
there is paucity of data on the underlying mechanisms shaping species assemblages and …

Challenges to the efficacy of forestry and wildlife policies in Ghana for environmental protection: A review

D Adom - African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2017 - academicjournals.org
Despite the promulgation of various forest and wildlife policies aimed at ensuring the
sustainability and conservation of the environment since 1874, Ghana continues to trail in …

A rapid assessment of landscape biodiversity using diversity profiles of arthropod morphospecies

KO Hackman, P Gong, S Venevsky - Landscape Ecology, 2017 - Springer
Context The assessment of land-use impacts on biodiversity is one of the central themes of
landscape ecology and conservation biology. However, due to the complexity of biodiversity …

Relationships between flower-visiting insects and forest cover in cocoa-growing landscapes in Ghana

RG Boakye, R Combey, B White, DA Stanley - Landscape Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Context Increased cocoa cultivation (Theobroma cacao) has led to the conversion
of over 6 million hectares of rainforest to cocoa farmlands in West Africa. Globally, pollinator …

Uncontrolled hunting and habitat degradation decimate and extirpate forest hornbills in Ghana, West Africa

LH Holbech, NND Annorbah, B Phalan, N Arcilla - Biological Conservation, 2018 - Elsevier
Tropical forests are on the front lines of the current global extinction crisis. Species with
restricted habitat requirements and slow reproductive rates, such as the spectacular …

Urban land transformations and its implication on tree abundance distribution and richness in Kumasi, Ghana

EB Agyapong, G Ashiagbor, CA Nsor… - Journal of Urban …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Despite the rapid urban transformation in green space in most cities in Ghana, knowledge
on urban tree diversity and the evidence of the consequences of built-up expansion on trees …

Woody species and trait diversity-functional relations of green spaces in Kumasi, Ghana

BF Nero - Urban Ecosystems, 2019 - Springer
Urban biodiversity is essential to creating resilient and sustainable cities. Nevertheless,
there is paucity of data on the characterization of microhabitat effects on species/trait …

Evaluation of Protected Areas in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, West Africa, Using a Remote Sensing-Based Approach

M Singh, LM Massimino, CM Collins - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study assesses the representation of defined ecoregions, slope profiles, and species
richness of threatened mammals in the International Union for Conservation of Nature …

Utilization of plants for medicinal purposes and concerns with endangered plant species from Ghana

AO Agyemang, BK Turkson, MF Baidoo… - Traditional and …, 2021 - jtim.tums.ac.ir
There has always been a strong human dependency on plants for health purposes and such
an important relationship should be sustained. Plants remain a repository of drug leads for …