Alan Hamilton

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

African Botany and Ecology Studies(23), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(16), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(15), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(12), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(12)

Publications87 total

Aspects of the Glaciation of Mt. Elgon, East Africa
2026
Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras
Scientific Reports·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Resource Conflicts at Ayubia National Park, Pakistan (1996–2004)
CABI eBooks·2024
Conservation on the Frontline: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda (1966–2004)
CABI eBooks·2024
A Conservation Crisis Caused by Destructive Logging in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania (1986–1987), and a Sequel in Mexico (1988)
CABI eBooks·2024
History and Future of Plants, Planet and People
CABI eBooks·2024
High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests
Nature·2021· 132 citedOpen Access
A natural yellow colorant from Buddleja officinalis for dyeing hemp fabric
Industrial Crops and Products·2021· 30 cited
Neolithic forest clearance at Ahakagyezi, western Uganda
2021· 1 cited
Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests
Science·2020· 342 citedOpen Access
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
Nature·2020· 900 citedOpen Access
Field guide to the forest trees of Uganda: for identification and conservation
CABI eBooks·2020· 11 cited
Indigenous knowledge of dye-yielding plants among Bai communities in Dali, Northwest Yunnan, China
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine·2018· 29 citedOpen Access
Palynological evidence for abrupt climatic cooling in equatorial Africa at about 43,000–40,000 cal BP
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology·2018· 2 cited
Botanical aspects of eco-civilisation construction
Plant Diversity·2017· 4 citedOpen Access
History and conservation of wild and cultivated plant diversity in Uganda: Forest species and banana varieties as case studies
Plant Diversity·2016· 33 citedOpen Access
Comparative homegarden medical ethnobotany of Naxi healers and farmers in Northwestern Yunnan, China
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine·2014· 58 citedOpen Access
Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2013· 393 citedOpen Access
Maintaining Resources for Traditional Medicine: A Global Overview and a Case Study from Buganda (Uganda)
Plant Diversity·2013· 6 cited
New Developments in Plant Conservation and the Relevance of Ethnobotany
Plant Diversity·2012· 2 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

David Taylor(14), Simon L. Lewis(6), Bonaventure Sonké(5), Térese B. Hart(5), Jon C. Lovett(5), Yadvinder Malhi(5), Kofi Affum‐Baffoe(4), Timothy R. Baker(4), Oliver L. Phillips(4), James A. Comiskey(4), Corneille E. N. Ewango(4), Ted R. Feldpausch(4), Kelvin S.‐H. Peh(4), Douglas Sheil(4), Trey Sunderland(4), Sean C. Thomas(4), Hans Beeckman(4), Lindsay F. Banin(4), Serge K. Begne(4), Pascal Boeckx(4)