Fuzzy-based vulnerability assessment of coupled social-ecological systems to multiple environmental hazards and climate change

D Mafi-Gholami, S Pirasteh, JC Ellison… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change and combining related parameters of environmental hazards have left a
considerable challenge in assessing social-ecological vulnerability. Here we integrated a …

Land use change assessment in coastal mangrove forests of Iran utilizing satellite imagery and CA–Markov algorithms to monitor and predict future change

H Etemadi, JM Smoak, J Karami - Environmental earth sciences, 2018 - Springer
Mangrove forest stores large organic carbon stocks in a setting that is highly vulnerable to
climate change and direct anthropogenic influences. As such there is a need to elucidate the …

Climate change impacts in Iran: assessing our current knowledge

J Rahimi, A Malekian, A Khalili - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2019 - Springer
During recent years, various studies have focused on investigating the direct and indirect
impacts of climate changes in Iran while the noteworthy fact is the achievement gained by …

Environmental flow assessment for intermittent rivers supporting the most poleward mangroves

A Baubekova, A Ahrari, H Etemadi, B Klöve… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The most vulnerable and dynamic ecosystems in terms of response to climate change and
fluctuations in hydrological conditions are mangroves, particularly those located on the edge …

Mangrove regional feedback to sea level rise and drought intensity at the end of the 21st century

D Mafi-Gholami, EK Zenner, A Jaafari - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Mangrove ecosystems are threatened by climate change. We investigated the effects of
expected future (year 2100) drought intensities and rising sea levels on the spatial extent …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal pattern of degradation in arid mangrove forests of the Northern Persian Gulf

H Etemadi, JM Smoak, E Abbasi - Oceanologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is a major threat to mangrove ecosystems worldwide but particularly those
in arid regions that exist near the limit of tolerance to extremes in temperature, precipitation …

The role of remote sensing on studying mangrove forest extent change

L Hu, W Li, B Xu - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Given the ability of effectively observing vegetation at a variety of spatial and temporal
scales, remote sensing has been widely used to monitor and understand the change of …

Sustainable groundwater modeling using single-and multi-objective optimization algorithms

S Sadeghi-Tabas, SZ Samadi, A Akbarpour… - Journal of …, 2017 - iwaponline.com
This study presents the first attempt to link the multi-algorithm genetically adaptive search
method (AMALGAM) with a groundwater model to define pumping rates within a well …

An ensemble forecast of semi‐arid rainfall using large‐scale climate predictors

B Choubin, A Malekian, S Samadi… - Meteorological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A case study examining ensemble forecasts of semi‐arid seasonal precipitation
is presented. The focus is on computing an appropriate correlation between large‐scale …

Evolution of mangrove research in an extreme environment: Historical trends and future opportunities in Arabia

G Friis, JA Burt - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Mangrove forests occur throughout the coastlines of Arabia, one of the most environmentally
extreme regions of their global distribution. The gray mangrove [Avicennia marina (Forsk.) …