Recent PhD dissertations

Recent PhD dissertations from the research group Tropical Trees and Landscapes.

2023

Athina Koutouleas
Genotype-environment interactions of Coffea arabica under shaded systems
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Tontie Lurimuah Kanton
The Environmental Outcomes of Charcoal Production in the Savanna and Transition Zones of Ghana: A Case Study of the Kintampo North District

2022

Fatou Gning
Ecophysiology of Sahelian agroforestry tree species and their adaptive potential: Rooting architecture and water storage
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2021

Oulimata Diatta
Variation among Acacia senegal (L) Willd trees of different genetic origins in relation to climatic adaptation
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2020

Lars Holger Schmidt
Biological and socio-economic barriers to the domestication of NTFPs, with special reference to dioecious Allanblackia stuhlmannii (Engl.) Engl. in Tanzania and Daemonorops Schult. f. spp. in Indonesia
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Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø
Defining and implementing quality of planting material for smallholder and restoration planting in Sub‐saharan Africa
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Reki Kardiman
Habitat types, species autecology and restoration of tropical rainforests in Sumatra, Indonesia
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2019

Nayu Nuringdati Widianingsih
Socio-economics of Rainforest Restoration in Sumatra, Indonesia. Economic Reliance, Land Use, and Resource Utilization
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2017

Eefke Mollee 
The use of urban plant resources for health and food security in Kampala, Uganda
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2016

Antoine Sambou
Vegetation change, tree diversity and food security in the Sahel: A case from the salinity-affected Fatick province in Senegal
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Paulo van Breugel
The potential natural vegetation of eastern Africa - Distribution, conservation and future changes
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Kristin Marie Lassen 
Pollination strategies to increase productivity of the African fruit trees Vitellaria paradoxa subsp. paradoxa & Parkia biglobosa
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Sayma Akhter
Conservation of Mangifera sylvatica: a Wild Fruit Species for Health and Livelihoods
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2015

Ida Hartvig Larsen
Conservation genetics of threatened Dalbergia timber species in Indochina
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Richard Asare
The relationships between on-farm shade trees and cocoa yields in Ghana
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Adama Korbo
Genetic variation in food potential and adaptation of baobab (Adansonia digitata L)
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Adja Madjiguene Diallo
Coexistence and performance of diploid and polyploid Acacia senegal (L.) Willd.: implications for adaptation and domestication in the Sahel
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2014

Bouda, Zoewinde Henri-Noel
Adaptive properties of Adansonia digitata L. (Baobab) & Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. (African Locust Bean) to drought stress
Oudraogo, Moussa
Improving and conserving sahelian fruit trees: a case study of Parkia biglobosa Jacq. (Benth.) Read the abstract

2013

Roshetko, James Michael
Smallholder tree farming systems for livelihood enhancement and carbon storage

2012

Ojeda, Manuel
Management of timber-tree regeneration and reproductive ecology of Guibourtia chodatiana (Hassl) in the dry lowlands of Bolivia

2010

Larsen, Anders Søndergaard
Gene flow and genetic structure of wild fruit trees: DNA-marker based studies in Adansonia digitata, Vitellaria paradoxa, Parkia biglobosa and Malus sylvestris