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Dr Khalid Ahmad

Dr Khalid Ahmad

Tenured Professor

Area of Interest: Plant Sciences

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

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

Associations

  • Pakistan Botanical Society
  • Society of Economic Botany
  • International Society of Ethnobiology

Research Interests

Ethnoecology,
Non-timber Forest Products, Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation

Awards

Research Productivity Award

Students Supervised

Three (03)

Journal Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=116" title="Dr. Adnan Ahmad Tahir">A.Tahir</a> Impacts of tourism on LULC and LST dynamics in district Buner and Shangla, Pakistan, Scientific Reports, 2025
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=496" title="Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=134" title="Dr. Sabaz Ali Khan">S.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Health risk assessment and levels of heavy metals contaminated drinking water used by both adults and children from nawanshahr town, Global NEST Journal, 2025
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=134" title="Dr. Sabaz Ali Khan">S.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=123" title="Dr. Muhammad Shahzad (ES)">M. Shahzad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=135" title="Dr. Rafiq Ahmad">R.Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=141" title="Dr. Muhammad Shahzad">M.Shahzad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=491" title="Dr. Yasar Sajjad">Y.Sajjad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=130" title="Dr. Amjad Hassan">A.Hassan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=496" title="Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Evaluation of morphological and biochemical variations in peas under two widespread abiotic stresses , Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2024
4. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Edible wild plant species used by different linguistic groups of Kohistan Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicines, , 2023
5. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> 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, 2022
6. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> ). Land-Use/Land Cover Changes Contribute to Land Surface Temperature: A Case Study of the Upper Indus Basin of Pakistan, Sustainability, 2022
7. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=116" title="Dr. Adnan Ahmad Tahir">A.Tahir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Syed Umair Shahid,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=115" title="Dr. Romana Khan">R.Khan</a> 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, 2022
8. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Evaluation of heavy metals effects on morpho‐anatomical alterations of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings, Microscopy Research and Technique, 2021
9. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Traditional medicinal knowledge and practices among the tribal communities of Thakht-e-Sulaiman Hills, Pakistan, BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2021
10. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Traditional Usage of Wild Fauna among the Local Inhabitants of Ladakh, Trans-Himalayan Region, Animals, 2020
11. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Taxonomic significance of cypsela morphology in tribe Cichoreae (Asteraceae) using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy..., Microscopy research and technique, 2020
12. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Identification of novel nonedible oil seeds via scanning electron microscopy for biodiesel production., Microscopy Research and Technique, 2020
13. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Taxonomic significance of cypsela morphology in tribe Cichoreae (Asteraceae) using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, Microscopy Research and Technique, 2019
14. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Identification of novel nonedible oil seeds via scanning electron microscopy for biodiesel production, Microscopy Research and Technique, 2019
15. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Ethnomedicinal knowledge of the rural communities of Dhirkot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, 2019
16. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=116" title="Dr. Adnan Ahmad Tahir">A.Tahir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,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, 2019
17. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Ethnobotanical investigation of wild vegetables used among local communities in northwest Pakistan, Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2019
18. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,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
19. Faizan Ullah,Ishtiaq Hussain,Ghulam Raza,Mazhar Iqbal,Muhammad Adil,Muhammad Ali,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=491" title="Dr. Yasar Sajjad">Y.Sajjad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Naseer Ahmad Soybean (Glycine max) Extracts Impacts on Plant and Soil Biology, 19 july,2016, 2016
20. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,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, 2016
21. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants knowledge and practices among the tribal communities of Thakht-e-Sulaiman Hills, Pakistan, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2015
22. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a> In vitro antibacterial activity of selected medicinal plants from lower Himalayas, Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2015
23. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Nadeem Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,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), 2014
24. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Caroline Weckerle,Mushtaq Ahmad Ethnobotanical Studies of the Eastern Plains of Thakht-e-Sulaiman Hills, Pakistan, Pakistan Journal of Botany, 2013
25. Hamayun Shaheen,Naseer Ahmad,Naveed Alam,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Zahid Ullah Phytodiversity and endemic richness in high altitude Rama Valley, Western Himalayas, Northern Pakistan, Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, 2011
26. Mushtaq Ahmad,Mir Ajab Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Nighat Shaheen Pollen fertility estimation of some sub-tropical flora of Pakistan , African Journal of Biotechnology, 2010
27. Mushtaq Ahmad,Nighat Shaheen,Abdul Nazir,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Mir Ajab Khan Taxonomic diversity in epidermal cells of some sub-tropical plant species, International Journal of Agriculture and Biology, 2010
28. Nighat Shaheen,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Mir Ajab Khan Palyonological Studies of the Semi-Desert Plant Species, From Pakistan, African Journal of Biotechnology, 2010
29. Mir Ajab Khan,Ghazalah Yasmin,Muhammad Qasim Hayat,Shakira Munsif,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Nighat Shaheen Foliar Epidermal Anatomy and Pollen Morphology of the Genera Alcea and Althaea (Malvaceae) from Pakistan, International Journal of Agriculture & Biology, 2010
30. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,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, 2009
31. Mushtaq Ahmad,Muhammad Zafar,Muhammad Arshad,Farooq Ahmad,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Mir Ajab Khan Taxonomic diversity of stomata in dicot flora of a district tank (N.W.F.P) in Pakistan, African Journal of Biotewchnology, 2009