Aida is an Associate Professor at Noragric. She holds a PhD degree in Environmental Sciences from University of Southampton (UK). Previous to joining Noragric, Aida has worked as a researcher for RSPB (UK's largest conservation NGO), University College London, University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford, Colorado State University and University of York. Her research interests, at the interphase between natural and social sciences, have focused on tropical forest dynamics & carbon stocks, forest ecosystem services, forest conservation and local communities’ adaptation to climate change. Aida has been involved in several interdisciplinary research projects which involved field work in over ten countries in Africa. For more insights into her interdisciplinary research see https://vimeo.com/221740544
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Areas of work
- Tropical forests dynamics
- Ecosystem services
- Climate Change
- Ethnobotany
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Publications
Sullivan J.P.M., et al. (2020) Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests. Science 368, 869–874.
Hubau W., et al. (2020) Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. Nature 579, 80-87.
Ndayizeye G., Imani G., Nkengurutse J., Irampagarikiye R., Ndihokubwayo N., Niyongabo F., Cuni-Sanchez A. (2020) Ecosystem services from mountain forests: Local communities’ views in Kibira National Park, Burundi. Ecosystem Services 45, 101171.
Batumike R., Imani G., Urom C., Cuni-Sanchez A. (2020) Bushmeat hunting around Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Oryx https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605319001017.
Atsri H.K., Koukou, K., Abotsi, K.E., Kokutse, A.D., Cuni-Sanchez A. (2020) Above ground biomass and vegetation attributes in different vegetation types in the forest-savanna mosaic of Togo, West Africa. African Journal of Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12758.
Cuni-Sanchez A. et al. (2019a) The importance of livelihood strategy and ethnicity in forest ecosystem services’ perceptions by local communities in north-western Cameroon. Ecosystem Services 40 (2019) 101000.
Cuni-Sanchez A. et al. (2019b) Social perceptions of forest ecosystem services in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Human Ecology 47:839–853.
Cuni-Sanchez A. et al. (2019c) Climate change and pastoralists: perceptions and adaptation in montane Kenya. Climate and Development 11, 513-524.
Hubau W. et al. (2019) The persistence of carbon in the African forest understory. Nature Plants 5: 133-140.
Los SO, et al. (2019) Sensitivity of a tropical montane cloud forest to climate change, present, past and future: Mt. Marsabit, N. Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews 218 34e48.
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Lecturing
EDS104 Environmental and Sustainability Science
EDS225 Linking Ecological and Social Resilience
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Projects & research
Projects
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Areas of research