Countries
Tropical Africa: Cameroon, Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso
Associate(s)
Cheek, Martin Roy (1960-) (co-collector)
Ghogue, Jean-Paul (1962-) (co-collector)
Rutishauser, R. (1949-) (co-collector)
Swaine, M.D. (fl. 1973-1976) (co-collector)
Ekpe, Patrick K. (1961-) (co-collector)
John, David Michael (1942-) (co-author)
de Graft-Johnson, Kweku Amoako Atta (fl. 1998-2008) (co-collector)
Biography
Gabriel Ameka is Professor of Botany at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is an aquatic plant specialist, focusing on the rheophytic plants in Africa and marine macro-algae in West Africa.
Ameka was born in Anfoega, Ghana, and attended the University of Ghana at Legon, gaining his BSc in 1982 and MPhil in botany in 1987. At the same university he gained his PhD in 2001 with a thesis entitled "The Biology, Taxonomy and Ecology of the Podostemaceae in Ghana".
Ameka has worked at the University of Ghana since 1988, specialising in systematics, morphology, and ecology of marine macro-algae and spermatophytes, particularly Podostemaceae. In 2003 he published The Marine Macroalgae of the Tropical West Africa Sub-region with D.M. John and G.W. Lawson, (in Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 125). He was appointed professor in 2010.
In addition to his work in Ghana, Ameka has worked as a visiting researcher in the UK at the Jodrell Laboratory, Kew (2007-2008 and 2020-2011) and served as Head of the Department of Botany at Ghana and Director of the Ghana Herbarium from 2004-2006.
Sources:
Personal communication, August 2012.
