Shalom Daniel Addo-Danso

Research

Tropical forests provide numerous goods and services for communities and society at large, as well as extremely important in the global carbon cycle. Many tropical forests (including those in Ghana) have been fragmented and degraded due to logging and other land-use changes, leading to large areas considered as logged-over secondary forests. Together with old-growth forests, logged-over forests may become critical in future efforts towards biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. My research therefore focuses on the biomass, productivity and carbon dynamics in tropical forests in Ghana, with the view to understanding how forest ecosystem services and processes (in terms of above-and belowground) may respond to future environmental changes including land-use changes.

Background

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management (Silviculture and Forest Management Option) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, and Master of Science in Forest Ecology and Management from the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Fun

Watching soccer and listening to gospel songs

Recent Publications

Addo-Danso, SD., Prescott, CE. Fine-root traits in relation to climate and soil fertility in tropical forests (In Prep.).

Addo-Danso, S.D., Prescott, C.E., Smith, A.R. 2016. Methods for estimating root biomass and production in forest and woodland ecosystem carbon studies: A review. Forest Ecology and Management, 359: 332-351.

Agyeman, V.K., Addo-Danso, S.D., Boateng, K., Abebrese, I.K. 2016. Vegetation assessment of native tree species Broussonetia papyrifera dominated degraded forest landscape in southern Ghana. Applied Vegetation Science, 19: 498-507.

Prescott, C., Godbold, D.L., Helmisaari, H-S., Addo-Danso, S.D. 2016. Introduction to forests, roots and soil carbon. Forest Ecology and Management, 359: 321.

Zhou, L., Addo-Danso, S.D., Wu, P., Li, S., Zou, X., Zhang, Y., Ma, X. 2016. Leaf resorption efficiency in relation to foliar and soil nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry of Cunninghamia lanceolata with stand development in southern China. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 16: 1448-1459.

Zhou, L., Addo-Danso, D.S., Wu, P., He, Z., Liu, C., Ma, X. 2016. Biomass production, nutrient cycling and distribution in age-sequence Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantations in subtropical China. Journal of Forestry Research, 27: 357-368.

Zhou, L., Addo-Danso, S.D., Wu, P-F., Li, S-B., Jia, Y-Y., Ma, X. 2015. Litterfall production and nutrient return in different-aged Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantation in south China. Journal of Forestry Research, 26: 79-89.

Addo-Danso, S.D., Bosu, P.P., Nkrumah, E.E., Pelz, D.R., Coke, S.A., Adu-Bredu, S. 2012. Survival and growth of Nauclea diderrichii (De Wild.) and Pericopsis elata (Harms) in monoculture and mixed-species plots in Ghana. Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 24: 37-45.

Djagbletey, G.G., Addo-Danso, S.D., Cobbinah, J.R., Oteng-Amoako, A.A., Frimpong-Mensah, K. 2011. Resistance of Milicia species to Phytolyma lata (Psyllidae): the role of leaf anatomical and morphological structures. Ghana Journal of Forestry, 27: 71-79.

Peprah, T., Ofori, D.A., Siaw, D.E.K.A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Cobbinah, J.R., Simons, A.J., Jamnadass, R. 2009. Reproductive biology and characterisation of Allanblackia parviflora A. Chev. in Ghana. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 56: 1037-1044.