Publications
Peer-reviewed research articles
37. A. Terskaia, R. Oucheikh, J. Peng, J. Oliveira, D. Parsons, J. Morel, A. M. Abdi, Z. Cai, S. Thapa, N. Boke-Olen, P. Olsson, H. G. Smith, J. Ekroos, L. Eklundh. (2026). Role of high-resolution phenology and productivity data from Sentinel-2 in prediction of grassland management type. Ecological Informatics, 99 104051. [Open Access]
36. A. M. Abdi and F. Wang. (2026). Mapping forest tree species and their uncertainty using Earth observation and National Forest Inventory data: towards operational monitoring in Sweden. International Journal of Remote Sensing. [Open Access]
35. H. Hashemi, A. M. Abdi, A. Naghibi, P. Zhao, S. Brogaard, A. Torabi Haghighi and A. Mansourian. (2025). Unraveling the link between agricultural patterns and dust storm occurrence in Mesopotamia. Environmental Research Letters, 20 024011. [Open Access]
34. F. Hamza, A. M. Abdi, M-A. Chokri, L. Yacoubi, H. Dlensi, N. Hammouda, A. Ghlis, B. Jemaa, M. Elghoul, A. Hedhili, S. Hanane. (2024). Landscape context and wetland attributes influence wintering waterbirds in important bird and biodiversity areas: implications for conservation and management. Landscape Ecology 39, 151. [Open Access]
33. C. Abel, F. T. Maestre, M. Berdugo, T. Tagesson, A. M. Abdi, S. Horion, R. Fensholt. (2024). Vegetation resistance to increasing aridity when crossing thresholds depends on local environmental conditions in global drylands. Communications Earth & Environment 5, 379. [Open Access]
32. C. Abel, A. M. Abdi, T. Tagesson, S. Horion, R. Fensholt. (2023). Contrasting ecosystem vegetation response in global drylands under drying and wetting conditions . Global Change Biology 29. [Open Access]
31. O. M. Jama, A. W. Diriye, A. M. Abdi. (2023). Understanding the perception of young people towards forestation as a strategy to mitigate climate change in a post-conflict developing country. Environment, Development and Sustainability 25. [Open Access]
30. S. Jamali, A. Ghorbanian, A. M. Abdi. (2022). Satellite-observed spatial and temporal sea surface temperature trends of the Baltic Sea between 1982 and 2021. Remote Sensing 15(1) [Open Access]
29. Z. Fang, W. Zhang, M. Brandt, A. M. Abdi, R. Fensholt. (2022). Globally increasing atmospheric aridity over the 21st century. Earth’s Future 10(10) [Open Access]
28. B. Hosseiny, A. M. Abdi, S. Jamali. (2022). Urban land use and land cover classification with interpretable machine learning – a case study using Sentinel-2 and auxiliary data. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 28 [Open Access]
27. A. M. Abdi, M. Brandt, C. Abel, and R. Fensholt. (2022). Satellite Remote Sensing of Savannas – Current Status and Emerging Opportunities. Journal of Remote Sensing, 9835284 [Open Access]
26. M. Kazemzadeh, Z. Noori, S. Jamali, A. M. Abdi. (2022). Forty Years of Air Temperature Change over Iran Reveals Linear and Nonlinear Warming. Journal of Meteorological Research 36, 462-477 [Open Access]
25. A. W. Diriye, O. M. Jama, J. W. Diriye, A. M. Abdi. (2022). Public preference for sustainable land use policies - empirical results from multinomial logit model analysis. Land Use Policy 114, 105975 [PDF]
24. A. M. Abdi, R. Carrié. W. Sidemo-Holm, Z. Cai, N. Boke-Olén, H. G. Smith, L. Eklundh, J. Ekroos. (2021). Biodiversity decline with increasing crop productivity in agricultural fields revealed by satellite remote sensing. Ecological Indicators 130 [Open Access]
22. C. Abel, S. Horion, T. Tagesson, W. De Keersmaecker, A.W.R. Seddon, A. M. Abdi, R. Fensholt. (2021). The human-environment nexus and vegetation-rainfall-sensitivity in tropical drylands. Nature Sustainability 4, 25–32. [PDF]
23. L. Eklund, A. M. Abdi, A. Shahpurwala, P. Dinc. (2021). On the Geopolitics of Fire, Conflict and Land in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Remote Sensing 13, 8: 1575. [Open Access]
21. A. W. Diriye, O. M. Jama, R. Chong, A. M. Abdi. (2021). Value of message framing for the acceptability of sustainable land use zoning policies in post-conflict Somalia. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. [PDF]
20. A. Mechiche-Alami and A. M. Abdi. (2020). Agricultural productivity in relation to climate and cropland management in West Africa. Scientific Reports 10, 3393. [Open Access]
19. E. S. Al-Kharusi, D. E. Tenenbaum, A. M. Abdi, T. Kutser, J. Karlsson, A-K. Bergström, M. Berggren. (2020). Large-scale retrieval of coloured dissolved organic matter in northern lakes using Sentinel-2 data. Remote Sensing 12(1), 157. [Open Access]
18. E. L. Johansson and A. M. Abdi. (2020). Mapping and quantifying perceptions of environmental change in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment 49, 557–568. [Open Access]
17. A. M. Abdi. (2020). Land cover and land use classification performance of machine learning algorithms in a boreal landscape using Sentinel-2 data. GIScience & Remote Sensing 57(1), 1-20. [Open Access]
16. O. M. Jama, G. Liu, A. W. Diriye, B. Yousaf, I. Basiru, A. M. Abdi. (2020). Participation of civil society in decisions to mitigate environmental degradation in post-conflict societies: Evidence from Somalia. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. [PDF]
15. A.-M. Virkkala, A. M. Abdi, M. Luoto, D. B. Metcalfe. (2019). Identifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients. Environmental Research Letters 14(12). [Open Access]
14. A. M. Abdi, N. Boke-Olén, H. Jin, L. Eklundh, T. Tagesson, V. Lehsten, J. Ardö. (2019). First assessment of the plant phenology index (PPI) for estimating gross primary productivity in African semi-arid ecosystems. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 78, 86-92. [PDF]
13. D. B. Metcalfe, [….], A. M. Abdi. (2018). Patchy field sampling biases understanding of climate change impacts across the Arctic. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, 1443-1448. [PDF]
12. F. Rizinjirabake, A. M. Abdi, D. E. Tenenbaum, P. Pilesjö. (2018). Riverine dissolved organic carbon in Rukarara River Watershed, Rwanda. Science of the Total Environment 643, 793-806. [PDF]
11. N. Boke-Olén, V. Lehsten, A. M. Abdi, J. Ardö, A. A. Khatir. (2018). Estimating Grazing Potentials in Sudan Using Daily Carbon Allocation in Dynamic Vegetation Model. Rangeland Ecology and Management 71(6), 792-797. [PDF]
10. F. Sallaba, S. Olin, K. Engström, A. M. Abdi, N. Boke-Olén, V. Lehsten, J. Ardö, and J. W. Seaquist. (2017). Future supply and demand of net primary production in the Sahel. Earth System Dynamics 8, 1191-1221. [Open Access]
9. S. Georganos, A. M. Abdi, D. E. Tenenbaum, S. Kalogirou. (2017). Examining the NDVI-rainfall relationship in the semi-arid Sahel using geographically weighted regression. Journal of Arid Environments 146, 64-74. [PDF]
8. L. Eklund, A. M. Abdi, M. Islar. (2017). From Producers to Consumers: The Challenges and Opportunities of Agricultural Development in Iraqi Kurdistan. Land 6(2), 44. [Open Access]
7. T. Tagesson, J. Ardö, B. Cappelaere, L. Kergoat, A. M. Abdi, S. Horion, R. Fensholt. (2017). Modelling spatial and temporal dynamics of GPP in the Sahel from Earth observation-based photosynthetic capacity and quantum efficiency. Biogeosciences 14, 1333. [Open Access]
6. A. M. Abdi, N. Boke-Olén , D. E. Tenenbaum, T. Tagesson, B. Cappalaere, J. Ardö. (2017). Evaluating water controls on vegetation growth in the semi-arid Sahel using field and Earth observations data. Remote Sensing 9(3) 294. [Open Access]
5. N. Boke-Olén, A. M. Abdi, O. Hall, V. Lehsten. (2017). High-resolution African population projections from radiative forcing and socio-economic models, 2000 to 2100. Scientific Data 4: 160130. [Open Access]
4. A. M. Abdi, A. Vrieling, G. T . Yengoh, A. Anyamba, J. Seaquist, C. C. Ummenhofer, J. Ardö. (2016). The El Niño-La Niña cycle and recent trends in the supply and demand of net primary production in African drylands. Climatic Change 38(1), 111-125. [PDF]
3. A. M. Abdi, J. Seaquist, D. E. Tenenbaum, L. Eklundh, J. Ardö. (2014). The Supply and Demand of Net Primary Production in the Sahel. Environmental Research Letters 9: 094003. [Open Access]
2. R. E. Bell*, […], A. M. Abdi*, J. D. Paden. (2014). Deformation, warming and softening of Greenland’s ice by refreezing meltwater. Nature Geoscience, 7, 497–502. [PDF] * Corresponding authors
1. A. M. Abdi. (2013). Integrating Open Access Geospatial Data to Map the Habitat Suitability of the Declining Corn Bunting (Miliaria calandra). ISPRS International Journal of Geoinformation. 2(4), 935-954. [Open Access]
Articles in review
Book chapters
A. M. Abdi, A. Nandipati. (2009). Abu Dhabi Island: Analysis of Development and Vegetation Change Using Remote Sensing (1972-2000). In E. Chuvieco, J. Li, and X. Yang (Eds.). Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change (Chapter 4: pp. 62-74). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. DOI:10.1007/978-90-481-9085-0 [PDF]
Popular science and opinion articles
European forests in the spotlight. (2021) Tidningen Curie.
Keeping an eye out – How we “observe” biodiversity from space. (2021) Tidningen Curie.
Macroscopes on Earth – Why we live in the golden age of satellites. (2021) Tidningen Curie.
An ethical blind spot in the natural sciences. (2021) Tidningen Curie.
To communicate or not to communicate science. (2021) Tidningen Curie.
So you’ve obtained postdoc funding. (2021) Tidningen Curie.
How can Somalia avoid the ‘resource curse’? (2019) African Business Magazine.
Scramble in Somalia: Will the oil ‘bonanza’ be a boon or curse? (2019) New African Magazine.
Ethiopia’s Visa Scheme Set To Boost Economy. (2019) African Business Magazine.
The Arctic: we don’t know as much about environmental change in the far north as we’d like to think. (2018) The Conversation.
Chad is the country most vulnerable to climate change – here's why. (2017) The Conversation.
Somalia conflict and famine: the causes are bad governance, not climate change. (2017) The Conversation.
The downward spiral of conflict and famine in Somalia is due to the absence of good governance, not climate. (2017) Medium.
Field reports
A. M. Abdi, S. Javed. (2001). Breeding of Greater Flamingoes (Phoenicopterus roseus) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. IUCN Species Survival Commission/Flamingo Survival Group Bulletin. ISSN 1680-1857.
A. M. Abdi, C. R. Drew (2000). Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) – A New Breeding Species for the United Arab Emirates. Phoenix 17:20-21. Compiled & distributed by Mike C. Jennings (ABBA Coordinator). Published by NCWCD, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.