Running projects
Curriculum Vitae
Since 11/2025 Postdoc – Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow
Department of Conservation Biology, University of Göttingen
2024 – 2025 Country Manager
Centre for Tropical Research, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2021 – 2024 Postdoc
Department of Biology - University of Oxford, U.K
2019 – 2025 Assistant Professor
Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2018 – 2025 Senior researcher & Head of Wildlife Research Unit
Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Cameroon
2018 – 2025 President Cameroon Chapter
Society for Conservation
2017 – 2019 Lecturer
Department of Animal Biology, University of Dschang, Cameroon
2016 – 2025 Coordinator for Cameroon
Society for the Preservation of Endangered Carnivores
and their International Ecological Study (S.P.E.C.I.E.S)
2021 – 2026 Affiliate TWAS-SAREP
The World Academy of Sciences Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Partner
2021- 2026 Affiliate– 6th Cohort
African Academy of Sciences
Publications
2025
Nana, E. D., Coad, L., Travers, H., Wright, J. & Milner-Gulland, E.J. 2025. Predicting behaviour change by urban bushmeat trade actors in Central Africa under different potential futures. Biological Conservation, 309 : 111276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111276
Pringle, S., Dallimer, M., Goddard, M. A., Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., … Nana, E. D., et al., 2025. Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9: 1031–1042. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02704-9.
Carmenta, R., Lima, M. G. B., Choiruzzad, S. A.B., Dawson, N., Estrada-Carmona, N., Hicks, C., … Nana, E. D., et al. 2025. Unveiling pervasive assumptions: moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 74:101537
Bodawatta, K. H., Albrecht, T., Krausová, S., Nana, E. D., Hořák, D., Sedláček, O., Jonsson, K. A., Munclinger, P. 2025. Cophylogeny, narrow host breadth and local conditions drive highly specialized bird–haemosporidian associations in West-Central African sky islands. Proc. R. Soc. B 292: 20242524. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb. 2024.2524
Bezeng, B.S., Ameka, G., Angui, C. M. V., Atuah, L., Azihou, F., … Nana, E. D., et al. 2025. An African perspective to biodiversity conservation in the twenty-first century. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 380: 20230443. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0443.
2024
Miller-Rushing, A. J., Primack, R. B. & Nana, E. D. 2024. Big scientific conferences return and emphasize the human context of science. Biological Conservation, 293: 110567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110567
Nkengbeza, N. S., Nana, E. D., Abwe, E. E., Koh-Dimbot, J. P., Mesame, N.L., Akongte, P. N. & Fokam, E. B. 2024. Exploring local ecological knowledge to inform the conservation of the Endangered and understudied Preuss’s monkey (Allochrocebus preussi) in Ebo forest, Cameroon. Ethnobiology and Conservation, 13. https://doi.org/10.15451/ec2024-03-13.11-1-19.
Nkengbeza, S.N., Mesame, N.L., Ngansop, E. T., Makak, R. N., da Rosa, J., Tumenta, P. F., Abwe, E. E., Nana, E. D. & Fokam, E. B. 2024. Effects of Human Disturbance on the Endangered Preuss’s Monkey (Allochrocebus preussi) in the Ebo Forest, Cameroon: Implications for Conservation. Tropical Conservation Science, 17. doi:10.1177/19400829241283712
2023
Nana, D. E., Tchatchouang, E. N., Takor, C. M., et al. 2023. Saving unique, rare and threatened species in the Ebo Forest, Cameroon, under the imminent threat of logging. Oryx, 57 : 696-697.
Mikula, P., Tomášek, O., Romportl, D., … Nana, E. D., et al., 2023. Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems. Nature Communications 14, 2146. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37936-5
Pringle, S., Dallimer, M., Goddard, M. A., Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., … Nana, E. D., et al., 2023. Robotics and Autonomous Systems for Environmental Sustainability: Monitoring Terrestrial Biodiversity. Report for UK-RAS. ISSN 2398-4422. DOI: 10.31256/WP2023.4.
2022
Nana, E. D. 2022. Women, wildlife crime, and sustainable livelihoods in Cameroon In
Women and Wildlife Trafficking: Participants, Perpetrators and Victims, 1st Edition. Edited By Agu, H. U. & M. L. Gore. Routledge publication, 184p, ISBN 9780367640262.
Nana, E. D., Njabo, K. Y., Tarla, F. N., Tah, E. K., Mavakala, K., Iponga, D. M., Demetrio, B. M., Kinzonzi, L., Embolo, L. E. & Mpouam, S. 2022. Putting conservation efforts in Central Africa on the right track for interventions that last. Conservation Letters, e12913. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12913.
Tomášek, O., Bobek, L., Kauzálová, T., Kauzál, O., Adámková, M., Horák, K., … Nana, E. D., et al. 2022. Latitudinal but not elevational variation in blood glucose level is linked to life history across passerine birds. Ecology Letters, 25: 2203–2216. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14097.
Horák, K., Bobek, L., Adámková, M., Kauzál, O., Kauzálová, T., Manialeu, J. P., … Nana, E. D., et al. 2022. Feather growth and quality across passerines is explained by breeding rather than moulting latitude. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20212404. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2404
Nkemnyi, S. N., Nja, B. T., Younchahou, M. N. and Nana, E. D. 2022. Can turacos as cultural symbols be used to enhance biodiversity conservation? Oryx, 57(1): 1-3. https://doi.org/10.10.17/S0030605322000059.
2021
Tegueu K.A.P., Ngansop T.E., Nkemnyi S.N. & Nana, E. D. 2021. Impacts des conditions de stockage sur la qualité de la conservation des échantillons botaniques à l’Herbier National du Cameroun. Revue Scientifique et Technique Forêt et Environnement du Bassin du Congo, 17 : 37-43.
Nana, E. D. 2021. The paradigm of conservation in Central Africa is failing: an analysis of the current situation. Academia Letters, Article 3349. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL334
Nana, E. D., Takor, C.M., Nkengbeza, S.N., Tchiengue, B., Ngansop, E. and Tchopwe, E. 2021. Illegal logging threatens to wipe out the Critically Endangered African zebrawood Microberlinia bisulcata from Cameroon's Ebo forest. Oryx, 55(5): 652 – 653. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605321000910.
2020 and earlier
Gajdošová, M.; Sychra, O.; Kreisinger, J.; Sedláček, O.; Nana, E. D.; Albrecht, T. & Munclinger, P. 2020. Patterns of host-parasite associations in tropical lice and their passerine hosts in Cameroon. Ecology & Evolution, 10(13), 6512-6524. https://doi.org/10.1002/ ece3.6386.
Nana, E. D. 2020. Walking the Ebo Forest of Cameroon before the next pandemic, Africa Conservation Telegraph, Vol. 15 No 2.
Carson, S. L, Kentatchime, F., Sinai, C., Van Dyne, E. A., Nana, E. D., Cole, B. L & Godwin, H. A. 2019. Health Challenges and Assets of Forest-Dependent Populations in Cameroon. EcoHealth 16(2), 287-297. https://doi /10.1007/s10393-019-01411-9.
Hořák, D., Ferenc, Sedláček, O., Motombi, F. N., Svoboda, M., Altman, J., Albrecht, T., Nana, E. D., Janeček, Š., Dančák, M., Majeský, Ľ., Ndive, E. & Doležal, J. 2019. Forest structure determines spatial changes in avian community along an elevational gradient in tropical Africa. Journal of Biogeography. 46 : 2466-2478. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13688.
Carson, S. L, Kentatchime, F., Nana, E. D., Cole, B. L & Godwin, H. A. 2018. Visions from Local Populations for Livelihood-based Solutions to Promote Forest Conservation Sustainability in the Congo Basin. Human Ecology, 46(6): 887–896. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-0036-5
Carson, S. L, Kentatchime, F., Nana, E. D., Njabo, K. Y., Cole, B. L & Godwin, H. A. 2018. Indigenous Peoples' Concerns About Loss of Forest Knowledge: Implications for Forest Management. Conservation & Society: 16(4): 431-440.
Tchamadeu, N. N., Nkontcheu, DBK. & Nana, E. D. 2017. Évaluation des facteurs de risques environnementaux liés à la mauvaise utilisation des pesticides par les maraîchers au Cameroun: le cas de Balessing à l’Ouest Cameroun. Afrique Science 13(1): 91-100.
Ferenc, M., Fjeldså, J., Sedláček, O., Motombi, F. N., Nana, E. D., Mudrová, K. & Hořák, D. 2016. Abundance-area relationships in bird assemblages along an Afrotropical elevational gradient: montane forest species compensate for less space available. Oecologia, 181: 225 – 33.
Tedjio, R.C., Talla, E. T. & Nana, E. D. 2016. Complementarity of two impact assessment tools: the case of a hydroelectric power plant in one of Africa’s last hardwood forests in eastern Cameroon. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. 34(3): DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2016. 1184503.
Nana, E. D., Sedláček, O., Doležal, J., Dančák, M., Altman, J., Svoboda, M., Majeský, Ľ. & Hořák, D. 2015. Relationship between Avian Artificial Nest Predation Risk and Forest Vegetation Structure Along a Tropical Altitudinal Gradient on Mount Cameroon. Biotropica, 47: 758 – 764.
Ondrej, S., Jana, V., Michal, F., Nana, E. D., Albrecht, T. & Horak, D. 2015. A comparison of point counts with the new acoustic sampling method: a case study of bird community from the montane forests of Mount Cameroon. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 1–8.
Nana, E. D., Sedláček, O., Vokurková, J. & Hořák, D. 2014. Nest position and type affect predation rates of artificial avian nests in the tropical lowland forest on Mount Cameroon. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 85: 93–96.
Nana, E. D., Sedláček, O., Bayly, N., Albrecht, T., Ferenc, M., Reif, J., Motombi, F. N. & Hořák, D. 2014. Comparison of avian assemblage structures in two upper montane forests of the Cameroon volcanic line: lessons for bird conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 23: 1469–1484.
Nana, E. D., Munclinger, P., Ferenc, M., Sedláček, O., Albrecht, T., & Hořák, D. 2014. Sexing monomorphic western mountain greenbuls on Mount Cameroon using morphometric measurements. African Zoology, 49: 247–252.
Nana, E. D. & Tchamadeu, N. N. 2014. Socio-economic impacts of protected areas on people living close to the Mount Cameroon National Park. IUCN Journal of Protected Areas PARKS, 20.2: 125-133.