Michael Ansong

Michael's research interests include Natural resources management (Forestry option), Biodiversity conservation, Biological invasions and Political ecology.

Says he of his latest project on Human mediated weed seeds dispersal: "Human activities can have negative impacts on biodiversity including those from plant invasions. Activities such as agriculture, forestry, and other horticulture purposes have resulted in human deliberately introducing plants to new habitat. Other human activities such as transportation could also result in unintentional introduction of plants, for example, where propagules that become attach to human equipment, vehicles and/or clothing, are transported outside their native range.

With more people travelling, more materials being transported, and more ways in which they are transported, unintentional human-mediated seed dispersal (i.e. anthropochory) is an increasingly important type of seed dispersal. This is particularly of concern when it involves the dispersal of the seeds of weeds that have range of ecological and economic impacts. "