Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

The team of Farid Dahdouh-Guebas seeks to understand and to predict how and why spatio-temporal dynamics in vegetation and landscapes occur. It adopts a retrospective approach using methods from different disciplines (tropical botany, remote sensing, socio-economic survey, historical archives), and integrative analysis (GIS, multivariate and multicriteria analyses) to help  understand ecosystem functioning (health status, social-ecological resilience) and management (conservation, restoration). Within this framework we also study biodiversity and climate change, ecological and ethological plant-animal interactions and man-ecosystem interactions. Mangrove forests are an important model for our research. The research is done on different spatial scales from case-studies in different countries to global analyses.

• Dabalà, A., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Dunn, D.C., Everett, J.D., Lovelock, C.E., Hanson, J.O., Buenafe, K.C.V., Neubert, S. & Richardson, A.J. (2023). Priority areas to protect mangroves and maximise ecosystem services. Nature Communications, 14(5863). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41333-3
• Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Friess, D.A. , Lovelock, C.E., Connolly, R.M., Feller, I.C., Rogers, K. & Cannicci, S. (2022). Cross-cutting research themes for future mangrove forest research. Nature Plants, 8, 1131–1135. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01245-4
• Dahdouh-Guebas, F. & Cannicci, S. (2021). Mangrove restoration under shifted baselines and future uncertainty. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8(799543). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.799543