Friday Ogana
Senior Research Associate
- Ph.D. Forest Biometrics, University of Ibadan (2019)
- M.S. Forestry, University of Ibadan (2015);
- B.S. Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife, University of Benin (2011)
319A Cheatham Hall
310 West Campus Dr.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
310 West Campus Dr.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
- Forest modeling
- Stand structural analysis
- Height and diameter development
- Continuous cover forestry
- Climate change
- Dendrochronology
- Ogana F.N., Green P.C., Radtke P. 2025. Modeling the growth and yield of natural hardwood stands in the southern United States using the Forest Inventory and Analysis data. Forest Ecology and Management, 586: 122722 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122722
- Stankova T.V., Ogana F.N., Dimitrova P. 2025. Modeling differently defined dominant stand diameters of monospecific forest plantations. Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 46(1) https://doi.org/10.5552/crojfe.2025.2505Ogana F.N., Holmström E., Aldea J., Liziniewicz M. 2024. Growth response of Pinus sylvestris L. and Picea abies [L.] H. Karst to climate conditions across a latitudinal gradient in Sweden. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 353:110062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110062.
- Ogana F.N., Ercanli I. 2022. Modelling height-diameter relationships in complex tropical rain forest ecosystems using deep learning algorithm. Journal of Forestry Research, 33:883-898. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-021-01373-1.
- Gorgoso-Varela J.J., Ogana F.N., Ige, P.O. 2020. A comparison between derivative and numerical optimization methods used for diameter distribution estimation. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 35(3-4):156-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2020.1760343.
- Ogana F.N., Rivas, S.C., Gorgoso-Varela J.J., . 2020. Nonlinear Mixed-Effect Height-Diameter Model for Pinus pinaster Ait and Pinus radiata D. Don. CERNE, 26:150-161. https://doi.org/10.1590/01047760202026012695.