Edmund C. Merem

Tropical Forest Landscape Change and the Role of Agroforestry Systems in Southern Nigeria

Edmund C. Merem, Joan Wesley, Yaw A. Twumasi, Chandra Richardson & Coney Romorno · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2012

The paper analyzes tropical forest landscape change and deforestation trends in Nigeria. Emphasis’ are on the issues, the environmental analysis of the trends, factors influencing it, and community agroforestry efforts. The time frame and setting for the study runs through the we...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJECC/2012/1847

Using GIS to Assess the Contribution of Farming Activities towards Climate Change in the State of Mississippi

Edmund C. Merem, Chandra Richardson, Corney Romarno, Joan Wesley & Yaw Twumasi · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2012

The study uses primary data, descriptive statistics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and correlation analysis to analyze the contributions of farming activities to climate change in Mississippi between 1992 through 2002. This involved the assessment of methane emissions from...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJECC/2012/1371

Relationships between Climate Parameters and Forest Vegetation At and Near Digya National Park, Ghana

Yaw A. Twumasi, Tommy L. Coleman, Andrew Manu, Edmund C. Merem & Albert Osei · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2011

This paper evaluates the effect of three climate parameters on forest cover in Ghana and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at Digya National Park derived from Landsat image data. Climate data (temperature, humidity, dewpoint, rainfall) are assembled from statistic...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJECC/2011/601