Graduate student
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
My name is John Nkrumah Mensah. I had my undergraduate studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, where I studied BSc. Forest Resources Technology (I specialized in Ecotourism and Forest Recreation). For my undergraduate thesis, I looked at the effect of human disturbances on riparian vegetation (find more details about my undergraduate thesis here: Nsor, C. A., Mensah, J. N., & Agumenu, V. (2021). Riparian vegetation dynamics in protected and unprotected areas, Kumawu District—Ashanti Region (Ghana). Tropical Ecology, 62(3), 329-346; Nsor, C. A., Mensah, J. N., Barnes, V. R., & Akomatey, P. K. (2021). Anthropogenic drivers of plant species coexistence in selected riparian systems, Kumawu district, Ashanti region (Ghana). Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 36(1), 323-344).
Currently, I am working with Dr. Brigitte Tenhumberg in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. My research is focused on understanding the demographic response of herbaceous plants to variations in weather conditions and the intensity of insect herbivory. I am most interested in assessing the delayed response of plant vital rate to weather variables.
I am very passionate about statistics and plant ecology and opened to advise and guidance to help me succeed in the field.