Agricultural expansion and mining drive forest loss in Ghana despite declining deforestation rates: Evidence from a national-scale assessment

• Patrick Addo-Fordjour ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: paddofordjour.cos@knust.edu.gh

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5102-2961

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• Francis Emmanuel Awortwi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5104-0577

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• Caleb Ezekiel Obodai,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Francis Boakye Aboagye,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Christine Naa Lamiley France,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Nana Serwaa Boakye Kusi-Appiah,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Derrick Oppong

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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