Research At COMSATS

Dr. Khalid Ahmad

	Designation:	Associate Professor
	Email:	khalidahmad@cuiatd.edu.pk
	Phone No. :	+92-300-5795944
	Role:	Faculty
	Research Interests:	Ethnobotany, Plant Taxonomy, Medicinal and Wild Edible Plants, Biodiversity and Climate Change

Academics/ Degrees

PhD Plant Sciences, Ethnobotany,Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan 2014

Profile/Bio

Mar. 2014- to Continued: Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences COMSATS, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Publications/Papers

2023

Journal

Dr. AM Abbasi,K. Ahmad,A.Nazir "Edible wild plant species used by different linguistic groups of Kohistan Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan" , Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicines, , 2023

2022

Journal

A.Tahir,A.Nazir,K. Ahmad,Syed Umair Shahid,R.Khan "Trends and projections of land use land cover and land surface temperature using an integrated weighted evidence-cellular automata (WE-CA) model" , Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ,Volume 194 ,Page 120 , 2022

K. Ahmad "Modelling of Land Use/Cover and LST Variations by Using GIS and Remote Sensing: A Case Study of the Northern Pakhtunkhwa Mountainous Region, Pakistan" , Sensors ,Volume 22 ,Issue 13 , 2022

K. Ahmad "). Land-Use/Land Cover Changes Contribute to Land Surface Temperature: A Case Study of the Upper Indus Basin of Pakistan" , Sustainability ,Volume 14 ,Issue 2 , 2022

2021

Journal

K. Ahmad "Traditional medicinal knowledge and practices among the tribal communities of Thakht-e-Sulaiman Hills, Pakistan" , BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies ,Volume 21 ,Issue 1 ,Page 1-21 , 2021

K. Ahmad "Evaluation of heavy metals effects on morpho‐anatomical alterations of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings" , Microscopy Research and Technique , 2021

2020

Journal

K. Ahmad "Traditional Usage of Wild Fauna among the Local Inhabitants of Ladakh, Trans-Himalayan Region" , Animals , 2020

K. Ahmad "Taxonomic significance of cypsela morphology in tribe Cichoreae (Asteraceae) using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy..." , Microscopy research and technique , 2020

K. Ahmad "Identification of novel nonedible oil seeds via scanning electron microscopy for biodiesel production." , Microscopy Research and Technique , 2020

2019

Journal

A.Tahir,Dr. AM Abbasi,K. Ahmad,A.Nazir,Siddique Ullah "Analysis and simulation of land cover changes and their impacts on land surface temperature in a lower Himalayan region" , Journal of Environmental Management ,Volume 245 ,Page 348-357 , 2019

K. Ahmad "Taxonomic significance of cypsela morphology in tribe Cichoreae (Asteraceae) using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy" , Microscopy Research and Technique ,Volume 83 ,Page 239- 248 , 2019

K. Ahmad "Identification of novel nonedible oil seeds via scanning electron microscopy for biodiesel production" , Microscopy Research and Technique ,Volume 83 ,Page 165-175 , 2019

K. Ahmad "Ethnomedicinal knowledge of the rural communities of Dhirkot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan" , Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine ,Volume 15 ,Issue 1 ,Page 1-30 , 2019

K. Ahmad "Ethnobotanical investigation of wild vegetables used among local communities in northwest Pakistan" , Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae ,Volume 88 ,Page 1-16 , 2019

2017

Journal

K. Ahmad,Ghias Uddin,Seema Patel,Ajmal Khan,Sobia Ahsan Halim,Saud Bawazeer,Naveed Muhammad,Mohammad S. Mubarak,Abdur Rauf "Diospyros, an under-utilized, multi-purpose plant genus: A review" , Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2-5-2017 , 2017

2016

Journal

Faizan Ullah,Ishtiaq Hussain,Ghulam Raza,Mazhar Iqbal,Muhammad Adil,Muhammad Ali,Y.Sajjad,K. Ahmad,Naseer Ahmad "Soybean (Glycine max) Extracts Impacts on Plant and Soil Biology" , 19 july,2016 , 2016

K. Ahmad,Andrea Pieroni "Folk knowledge of wild food plants among the tribal communities of Thakht-e-Sulaiman Hills, North-West Pakistan." Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine" , 8 April 2016 ,Volume 12 ,Page 1-15 , 2016

2015

Journal

K. Ahmad "Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants knowledge and practices among the tribal communities of Thakht-e-Sulaiman Hills, Pakistan" , Journal of Ethnopharmacology ,Volume 170 ,Issue 2015 ,Page 275-283 , 2015

K. Ahmad "In vitro antibacterial activity of selected medicinal plants from lower Himalayas" , Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences ,Volume 28 ,Issue 2 ,Page 581-587 , 2015

2014

Journal

A.Nazir,Nadeem Khan,K. Ahmad,Dr. AM Abbasi,Mir Ajab Khan "Validation of Setaria (L.) P. Beauv Species Based on Palyonological and Anatomical Techniques " , International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR) ,Volume 13 ,Issue 1 ,Page 178-185 , 2014

2013

Journal

K. Ahmad,Caroline Weckerle,Mushtaq Ahmad "Ethnobotanical Studies of the Eastern Plains of Thakht-e-Sulaiman Hills, Pakistan" , Pakistan Journal of Botany ,Volume 45 ,Page 197-205 , 2013

2011

Journal

Hamayun Shaheen,Naseer Ahmad,Naveed Alam,K. Ahmad,Zahid Ullah "Phytodiversity and endemic richness in high altitude Rama Valley, Western Himalayas, Northern Pakistan" , Journal of Medicinal Plants Research ,Volume 5 ,Issue 8 ,Page 1489-1493 , 2011

2010

Journal

Mushtaq Ahmad,Mir Ajab Khan,K. Ahmad,Nighat Shaheen "Pollen fertility estimation of some sub-tropical flora of Pakistan " , African Journal of Biotechnology ,Volume 9 ,Issue 49 ,Page 8313-8317 , 2010

Nighat Shaheen,K. Ahmad,Mir Ajab Khan "Palyonological Studies of the Semi-Desert Plant Species, From Pakistan" , African Journal of Biotechnology ,Volume 9 ,Issue 24 ,Page 3527- 3535 , 2010

Mushtaq Ahmad,Nighat Shaheen,Abdul Nazir,K. Ahmad,Mir Ajab Khan "Taxonomic diversity in epidermal cells of some sub-tropical plant species" , International Journal of Agriculture and Biology ,Volume 12 ,Issue 1 ,Page 115-118 , 2010

Mir Ajab Khan,Ghazalah Yasmin,Muhammad Qasim Hayat,Shakira Munsif,K. Ahmad,Nighat Shaheen "Foliar Epidermal Anatomy and Pollen Morphology of the Genera Alcea and Althaea (Malvaceae) from Pakistan" , International Journal of Agriculture & Biology ,Volume 12 ,Issue 3 ,Page 329-334 , 2010

2009

Journal

Mushtaq Ahmad,Muhammad Zafar,Muhammad Arshad,Farooq Ahmad,K. Ahmad,Mir Ajab Khan "Taxonomic diversity of stomata in dicot flora of a district tank (N.W.F.P) in Pakistan" , African Journal of Biotewchnology ,Volume 8 ,Issue 6 ,Page 1052-1055 , 2009

K. Ahmad,Nighat Shaheen,Zulqarnain,Mir Ajab Khan "Morpho-Palyonological and Leaf Epidermal Anatomy of Weeds of District Tank, N.W.F.P, Pakistan" , Pakistan Journal of Weed Sciences ,Volume 5 ,Issue 4 ,Page 309- 320 , 2009

Associations/Memberships

Pakistan Botanical Society
Society of Economic Botany
International Society of Ethnobiology

Awards/ Appreciations

Research Productivity Award