Current research

Students

Julius Yani (PhD thesis Modibbo Adama University, Yola) Plant species diversity and carbon sequestration in three ecological zones of Nigeria.
Eric Bemuh Febnteh (PhD thesis University of Bamenda, Cameroon) Ecology of oyster mushrooms—genus Pleurotrus—in the montane forests of Cameroon and Nigeria.
Gboyega Awoku (PhD thesis UC) Pollination biology and the role of different pollinator species in local crop pollination.
Ahmed Abdulrahaman (MSc student Lagos State University) Application of remote sensing data to monitor and map forest canopy cover.

Completed theses

Istifanus Jesse (MSc Gombe State University) The study of snag, down course woods debris in an ecosystem.
Jennifer Arubemi Agaldo (PhD, UC) Plant-animal interaction in relation to seed fate and the role it plays in regeneration and restoration of grassland around Ngyel Nyaki Forest Reserve, Nigeria. (TY Danjuma Scholar)
Yadok Biplang Godwill (PhD, UC) Investigating the efficiency of the African Pouched Rat (Cricetomys sp. nov) in secondary seed dispersal in Ngel Nyaki forest. (TY Danjuma Scholar)
Murna Tella (PhD, UC) Investigating the ecosystem services provided by birds in Ngel Nyaki forest and surrounding agricultural lands.
Iveren Abiem (PhD, UC) Using the CTFS-ForestGeo plot (of which she is the manager) to understand forest regeneration and seed rain.
Lily Brailsford (MSc UC) Determining levels of gene flow in trees between forest fragments
Charles Nsor (PhD, UC) The relative importance of birds and insects as pollinators of a west african montane forest: a case study of Ngel Nyaki forest reserve.
Kelly Hutchinson (MSc, UC) Feeding ecology of Putty nose monkey
Denise Arroyo Lambaer (PhD, UC) Conserving amphibian diversity- inventory and gene flow studies in fragmented montane forest, Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria.
Babale Aliyu (PhD, UC) The fate of large seed in an Afromontane forest with few wide gaped frugivores.
Joah Thia (MSc, UC) Rare Afromontane tree conservation: using genetics and ecology to guide the management of Lovoa trichilioides and Cordia spp.
Sasha Roselli (MSc, UC) Factors limiting species composition and growth rates of naturally regenerating forest in a Nigerian montane grasslands.
Alex Knight (MSc, UC) Genetic structure and gene flow in the Nigeria Cameroon Chimpanzee in and around Gashaka Gumti National Park
Danladi Mohammed Umar (PhD, UC) How do varying land-uses affect stream communities in highland tropical streams in Nigeria?
Andrew Barnes (MSc, UC) Forest edges, livestock encroachment, and boundary fencing: The effects of habitat edges on dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) community structure and function.
Delyse Campbell (MSc, UC) The potential for natural seed dispersal in the restoration of West African montane forest.
Paul Dutton (PhD, UC) Foraging behaviour of the Nigerian/Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) in a small remnant of montane forest: assessment of technology, diet and habitat. PhD, UC.
Abby Grassham (MSc, UC) Relationships between the tantalus monkey and forest structure in a West African montane forest.
Martin Korndoerfer (MSc, UC) Fulani pastoral practices around the Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve.
Samuel (Dayo) Temidayo Osinubi (PhD, UC) Habitat choice and evolutionary fitness in the yellow breasted boubou (Laniarius atroflavus).
Kristy Udy (MSc, UC) The influence of forest reserve protection on the structure, stability, and functioning of dung-associated invertebrate communities
Fiona Agmen (BSc(Hons), UC)Tantalus monkeys Chlorocebus tantalus and seed dispersal.
Tammy Korndoerfer (MSc, UC) Natural Resource use and Livelihoods of villagers on the Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria: Yelwa village as a case study.
Kerry-Anne Weston (MSc, UC) The role of sunbirds in pollination at Ngel Nyaki forest.

Student visitors

Priscilla Asory from FUTY spent a week at Ngel Nyaki in 2013, working on her MSc project to do with forest soils.