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, hisstoric 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., F. Dahdouh-Guebas, D.C. Dunn, J.D. Everett, C.E. Lovelock, J.O. Hanson, K.C.V. Buenafe, S. Neubert & A.J. Richardson, 2023. Priority areas to protect mangroves and maximise ecosystem services. Nature Communications 14: 5863. 
• Dahdouh-Guebas, F., D.A. Friess, C.E. Lovelock, R.M. Connolly, I.C. Feller, K. Rogers & S. Cannicci, 2022. Cross-cutting research themes for future mangrove forest research. Nature Plants 8: 1131–1135. 
• Dahdouh-Guebas, F. & S. Cannicci, 2021. Mangrove restoration under shifted baselines and future uncertainty. Frontiers in Marine Science 8: 799543.