William Oduro, Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Bright Kankam, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana.

Summary

Throughout the world, tropical forests are rapidly being converted to agriculture. In most regions, these forests will survive only in fragments for the next several decades. Research is needed on how well plants and animals can persist in such fragments. This project will provide the first data on diversity and abundance of one taxon (namely birds) in forest patches of Ghana, a tropical African nation where forest fragmentation is most severe. Such research will help determine what combinations of patch size and management regime provide a suitable refuge for various bird species. This project has support from the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), the University of Science and Technology (UST) in Kumasi, Ghana's Nature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC), and a Fulbright award from the African Regional Research Program.

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 July 2008 )