Team > Prof. Dr. Cyrus Samimi
Prof. Dr. Cyrus Samimi
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Climatology
| since Oct 2021 | Vice Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences |
| since Jan 2019 | Vice Dean for Digital Solutions in the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple |
| since Jul 2017 | Director of the Bavarian Research Institute of African Studies (BRIAS) |
| since Mar 2013 | Full Professor of Climatology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| 2019-2021 | Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| 2017-2021 | Vice Chair of the EU COST Action Drylands Facing Change: Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Change, Food Insecurity, Political Instability (DFC) |
| 2017-2019 | Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany |
| 2016-2021 | Deputy Director of the Bayreuth Institute of Geography |
| 2012 | Offer of a professorship of Physical Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa (offer declined) |
| 2010-2013 | Full Professor of Geoecology at the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2008-2010 | Visiting Professor of Geoecology at the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna, Austria |
| 2007-2008 | Temporary replacement of a professorship of Ecological Services at the elite study program " Global Change Ecology" at the University Bayreuth, Germany |
| 2004-2005 | Temporary replacement of a professorship of Physical Geography at the Department of Physical Geography at the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| 2002-2007 | Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
| 2002 | State doctorate (Habilitation) for Geography at the Department of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Thesis title: Das Weidepotential im Gutu Distrikt (Zimbabwe). Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Modellierung unter Verwendung von Landsat-TM (The grazing potential in the Gutu district, Zimbabwe. Possibilities and limits of modeling with Landsat-TM) |
| 1996-2002 | Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
| 1995 | PhD in Physical Geography at the Department of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
| 1991-1996 | Scientific Assistant at the Department of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
| 1990 | M.A. (Magister Artium) at the Department of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Major: Geography; Minors: Biology, Geology |
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Climatology
Research Activities
- Climatology
- Ecological Climatology
- Biogeography
- Agricultural Ecology
- Remote Sensing
- GIS
Research Areas
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Central Asia
- Near East, Middle East
- Southern Germany
- Alps
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Climatology
Publications
2022
Adams, Julia; Samimi, Cyrus; Mitterer, Christina; Bendix, Jörg; Beck, Erwin
Comparison of pasture types in the tropical Andes : Species composition, distribution, nutritiv ...
in Basic and Applied Ecology volume 59 (2022) . - page 139-150
doi:10.1016/j.baae.2022.01.005 ...
Khan, Saeed Akhtar; Vanselow, Kim A.; Sass, Oliver; Samimi, Cyrus
Detecting abrupt change in land cover in the eastern Hindu Kush region using Landsat time serie ...
in Journal of Mountain Science volume 19 (2022)
doi:10.1007/s11629-021-7297-y ...
Li, Qirui; Samimi, Cyrus
Sub-Saharan Africa's international migration constrains its sustainable development under clima ...
in Sustainability Science (2022)
doi:10.1007/s11625-022-01116-z ...
2021
Kassam, Karim-Aly; Ruelle, Morgan; Haag, Isabell; Bulbulshoev, Umed; Kaziev, Daler; Louis, Leo; Ullmann, Anna; Edwards, Iriel; Khan, Aziz Ali; Trabucco, Antonio; Samimi, Cyrus
Engaging Transformation : Using Seasonal Rounds to Anticipate Climate Change
in Human Ecology volume 49 (2021) . - page 509-523
doi:10.1007/s10745-021-00269-2 ...
Sowe, Sulayman K.; Schönfeld, Mirco; Samimi, Cyrus; Steiner, Petra; Huisl, Jonas
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for North-South Research Collaboration : An Experience Report
Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
Madrid : ACM, 2021. - page 18-21
https://gsyc.urjc.es/~grex/2021-opensym/OpenSym-20 ...
Essien, Etido; Samimi, Cyrus
Evaluation of Economic Linkage between Urban Built-Up Areas in a Mid-Sized City of Uyo (Nigeria ...
in Land volume 10 (2021) issue 10
doi:10.3390/land10101094 ...
Haag, Isabell; Kassam, Karim-Aly; Senftl, Thomas; Zandler, Harald; Samimi, Cyrus
Measurements meet human observations : integrating distinctive ways of knowing in the Pamir Mou ...
in Climatic Change volume 165 (2021) issue 1/2
doi:10.1007/s10584-021-02988-3 ...
Vanselow, Kim André; Zandler, Harald; Samimi, Cyrus
Methods of Assessing Vegetation Dynamics and Pasture Potentials in Arid Mountain Regions
Exploring and Optimizing Agricultural Landscapes
Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2021. - page 373-382
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-67448-9_16 ...
Nabavi, Seyed Omid; Nölscher, Anke; Samimi, Cyrus; Thomas, Christoph; Haimberger, Leopold; Lüers, Johannes; Held, Andreas
Site-scale modeling of surface ozone in Northern Bavaria using machine learning algorithms, reg ...
in Environmental Pollution volume 268, Part A (2021)
doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115736 ...
Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Lenoir, Jonathan; Hattab, Tarek; Arnst, Elise Aimee; Chytrý, Milan; Dengler, Jürgen; De Ruffray, Patrice; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Jandt, Ute; Jansen, Florian; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Kattge, Jens; Levesley, Aurora; Pillar, Valério D.; Purschke, Oliver; Sandel, Brody; Sultana, Fahmida; Aavik, Tsipe; Aćić, Svetlana; Acosta, Alicia T. R.; Agrillo, Emiliano; Alvarez, Miguel; Apostolova, Iva; Arfin Khan, Mohammed Abu Sayed; Arroyo, Luzmila; Attorre, Fabio; Aubin, Isabelle; Banerjee, Arindam; Bauters, Marijn; Bergeron, Yves; Bergmeier, Erwin; Biurrun, Idoia; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Bonari, Gianmaria; Bondareva, Viktoria; Brunet, Jörg; Čarni, Andraž; Casella, Laura; Cayuela, Luis; Černý, Tomáš; Chepinoga, Victor; Csiky, János; Ćušterevska, Renata; De Bie, Els; Gasper, André Luis; De Sanctis, Michele; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Dolezal, Jiri; Dziuba, Tetiana; El‐Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El‐Rouf Mousa; Enquist, Brian; Ewald, Jörg; Fazayeli, Farideh; Field, Richard; Finckh, Manfred; Gachet, Sophie; Galán‐de‐Mera, Antonio; Garbolino, Emmanuel; Gholizadeh, Hamid; Giorgis, Melisa; Golub, Valentin; Alsos, Inger Greve; Grytnes, John‐Arvid; Guerin, Gregory Richard; Gutiérrez, Alvaro G.; Haider, Sylvia; Hatim, Mohamed Z.; Hérault, Bruno; Hinojos Mendoza, Guillermo; Hölzel, Norbert; Homeier, Jürgen; Hubau, Wannes; Indreica, Adrian; Janssen, John A. M.; Jedrzejek, Birgit; Jentsch, Anke; Jürgens, Norbert; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kapfer, Jutta; Karger, Dirk Nikolaus; Kavgacı, Ali; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kessler, Michael; Khanina, Larisa; Killeen, Timothy; Korolyuk, Andrey; Kreft, Holger; Kühl, Hjalmar S.; Kuzemko, Anna; Landucci, Flavia; Lengyel, Attila; Lens, Frederic; Lingner, Débora Vanessa; Liu, Hongyan; Lysenko, Tatiana; Mahecha, Miguel D.; Marcenò, Corrado; Martynenko, Vasiliy; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel; Mucina, Ladislav; Müller, Jonas V.; Munzinger, Jérôme; Naqinezhad, Alireza; Noroozi, Jalil; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Onyshchenko, Viktor; Overbeck, Gerhard E.; Pärtel, Meelis; Pauchard, Aníbal; Peet, Robert K.; Peñuelas, Josep; Pérez‐Haase, Aaron; Peterka, Tomáš; Petřík, Petr; Peyre, Gwendolyn; Phillips, Oliver L.; Prokhorov, Vadim; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Revermann, Rasmus; Rivas‐Torres, Gonzalo; Rodwell, John S.; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Samimi, Cyrus; Schmidt, Marco; Schrodt, Franziska; Shan, Hanhuai; Shirokikh, Pavel; Šibík, Jozef; Šilc, Urban; Sklenář, Petr; Škvorc, Željko; Sparrow, Ben; Sperandii, Marta Gaia; Stančić, Zvjezdana; Svenning, Jens‐Christian; Tang, Zhiyao; Tang, Cindy Q.; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Vanselow, Kim André; Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo; Vassilev, Kiril; Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo; Venanzoni, Roberto; Vibrans, Alexander Christian; Violle, Cyrille; Virtanen, Risto; Wehrden, Henrik; Wagner, Viktoria; Walker, Donald A.; Waller, Donald M.; Wang, Hua‐Feng; Wesche, Karsten; Whitfeld, Timothy J. S.; Willner, Wolfgang; Wiser, Susan K.; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Yamalov, Sergey; Zobel, Martin; Bruelheide, Helge; Bates, Amanda
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots
in Global Ecology and Biogeography volume 30 (2021) issue 9. - page 1740-1764
doi:10.1111/geb.13346 ...
Vanselow, Kim André; Zandler, Harald; Samimi, Cyrus
Time Series Analysis of Land Cover Change in Dry Mountains : Insights from the Tajik Pamirs
in Remote Sensing volume 13 (2021) issue 19
doi:10.3390/rs13193951 ...
2020
Samimi, Cyrus; Ghosh, Aditya; Fickert, Thomas
Die tropischen Zyklone Idai und Fani im Jahr 2019
in Geographische Rundschau volume 72 (2020) issue 4. - page 34-37
2019
Zandler, Harald; Haag, Isabell; Samimi, Cyrus
Evaluation needs and temporal performance differences of gridded precipitation products in peri ...
in Scientific Reports volume 9 (2019)
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-51666-z ...
Haag, Isabell; Jones, Philip D.; Samimi, Cyrus
Central Asia's Changing Climate : How Temperature and Precipitation Have Changed across Time, S ...
in Climate volume 7 (2019) issue 10
doi:10.3390/cli7100123 ...
Essien, Etido; Samimi, Cyrus
Detection of Urban Development in Uyo (Nigeria) Using Remote Sensing
in Land volume 8 (2019) issue 6. - page No. 102
doi:10.3390/land8060102 ...
Haag, Isabell; Kassam, Karim-Aly; Samimi, Cyrus
Ökologische Kalender im Pamir : Anpassung an den Klimawandel auf dem Dach der Welt
in Geographische Rundschau volume 71 (2019) issue 12. - page 26-31
Bruelheide, Helge; Dengler, Jürgen; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Purschke, Oliver; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Chytrý, Milan; Pillar, Valério D.; Jansen, Florian; Kattge, Jens; Sandel, Brody; Aubin, Isabelle; Biurrun, Idoia; Field, Richard; Haider, Sylvia; Jandt, Ute; Lenoir, Jonathan; Peet, Robert K.; Peyre, Gwendolyn; Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Schmidt, Marco; Schrodt, Franziska; Winter, Marten; Aćić, Svetlana; Agrillo, Emiliano; Alvarez, Miguel; Ambarlı, Didem; Angelini, Pierangela; Apostolova, Iva; Arfin Khan, Mohammed Abu Sayed; Arnst, Elise; Attorre, Fabio; Baraloto, Christopher; Beckmann, Michael; Berg, Christian; Bergeron, Yves; Bergmeier, Erwin; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Bondareva, Viktoria; Borchardt, Peter; Botta-Dukát, Zoltán; Boyle, Brad; Breen, Amy; Brisse, Henry; Byun, Chaeho; Cabido, Marcelo; Casella, Laura; Cayuela, Luis; Černý, Tomáš; Chepinoga, Victor; Csiky, János; Curran, Michael; Ćušterevska, Renata; Dajić Stevanović, Zora; De Bie, Els; de Ruffray, Patrice; De Sanctis, Michele; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Dressler, Stefan; Ejrnæs, Rasmus; El-Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa; Enquist, Brian; Ewald, Jörg; Fagúndez, Jaime; Finckh, Manfred; Font, Xavier; Forey, Estelle; Fotiadis, Georgios; García-Mijangos, Itziar; de Gasper, André Luis; Golub, Valentin; Gutierrez, Alvaro G.; Hatim, Mohamed Z.; He, Tianhua; Higuchi, Pedro; Holubová, Dana; Hölzel, Norbert; Homeier, Jürgen; Indreica, Adrian; Işık Gürsoy, Deniz; Jansen, Steven; Janssen, John A. M.; Jedrzejek, Birgit; Jiroušek, Martin; Jürgens, Norbert; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kavgacı, Ali; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kessler, Michael; Knollová, Ilona; Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy; Korolyuk, Andrey; Kozhevnikova, Maria; Kozub, Łukasz; Krstonošić, Daniel; Kühl, Hjalmar; Kühn, Ingolf; Kuzemko, Anna; Küzmič, Filip; Landucci, Flavia; Lee, Michael T.; Levesley, Aurora; Li, Ching-Feng; Liu, Hongyan; Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela; Lysenko, Tatyana; Macanović, Armin; Mahdavi, Parastoo; Manning, Peter; Marcenò, Corrado; Martynenko, Vassiliy; Mencuccini, Maurizio; Minden, Vanessa; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Moretti, Marco D.; Müller, Jonas V.; Munzinger, Jérôme; Niinemets, Ülo; Nobis, Marcin; Noroozi, Jalil; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Onyshchenko, Viktor; Overbeck, Gerhard E.; Ozinga, Wim A.; Pauchard, Anibal; Pedashenko, Hristo; Peñuelas, Josep; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Peterka, Tomáš; Petřík, Petr; Phillips, Oliver L.; Prokhorov, Vadim; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Revermann, Rasmus; Rodwell, John S.; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Samimi, Cyrus; Schaminée, Joop H. J.; Schmiedel, Ute; Šibík, Jozef; Šilc, Urban; Škvorc, Željko; Smyth, Anita; Sop, Tenekwetche; Sopotlieva, Desislava; Sparrow, Ben; Stančić, Zvjezdana; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Swacha, Grzegorz; Tang, Zhiyao; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Turtureanu, Pavel Dan; Uğurlu, Emin; Uogintas, Domas; Valachovič, Milan; Vanselow, Kim André; Vashenyak, Yulia; Vassilev, Kiril; Vélez-Martin, Eduardo; Venanzoni, Roberto; Vibrans, Alexander Christian; Violle, Cyrille; Virtanen, Risto; von Wehrden, Henrik; Wagner, Viktoria; Walker, Donald A.; Wana, Desalegn; Weiher, Evan; Wesche, Karsten; Whitfeld, Timothy; Willner, Wolfgang; Wiser, Susan; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Yamalov, Sergey; Zizka, Georg; Zverev, Andrei
sPlot : A new tool for global vegetation analyses
in Journal of Vegetation Science volume 30 (2019) issue 2. - page 161-186
doi:10.1111/jvs.12710 ...
2018
Mayr, Manuel J.; Vanselow, Kim André; Samimi, Cyrus
Fire regimes at the arid fringe : A 16-year remote sensing perspective (2000-2016) on the contr ...
in Ecological Indicators volume 91 (2018) . - page 324-337
doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.04.022 ...
Kassam, Karim-Aly S.; Ruelle, Morgan L.; Samimi, Cyrus; Trabucco, Antonio; Xu, Jianchu
Anticipating Climatic Variability : The Potential of Ecological Calendars
in Human Ecology volume 46 (2018) issue 2. - page 249-257
doi:10.1007/s10745-018-9970-5 ...
Reinhardt, Katja; Samimi, Cyrus
Comparison of different wind data interpolation methods for a region with complex terrain in Ce ...
in Climate Dynamics volume 51 (2018) issue 9/10. - page 3635-3652
doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4101-y ...
Vanselow, Kim André; Zandler, Harald; Samimi, Cyrus
Methods of Assessing Vegetation Dynamics and Pasture Potentials in High Mountain Regions
Novel Methods and Results of Landscape Research in Europe, Central Asia and Siberia. Vol. III. Landscape Monitoring and Modelling
Moscow , 2018. - page 209-213
doi:10.25680/1490.2018.71.71.003 ...
Nabavi, Seyed Omid; Haimberger, Leopold; Abbasi, Reyhaneh; Samimi, Cyrus
Prediction of aerosol optical depth in West Asia using deterministic models and machine learnin ...
in Aeolian Research volume 35 (2018) . - page 69-84
doi:10.1016/j.aeolia.2018.10.002 ...
2017
Mayr, Manuel J.; Malß, Sophia; Ofner, Elisabeth; Samimi, Cyrus
Disturbance feedbacks on the height of woody vegetation in a savannah : a multi-plot assessment ...
in International Journal of Remote Sensing (2017) . - page 1-25
doi:10.1080/01431161.2017.1362132 ...
Krüger, Fred; Samimi, Cyrus
Environmental management and the reshaping and respacing of livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa : ...
in African Geographical Review (2017) . - page 1-7
doi:10.1080/19376812.2017.1286244 ...
Samimi, Cyrus
Klimatologischer Überblick
Die Physische Geographie Deutschlands
Darmstadt : WBG (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 2017. - page 167-179
Nabavi, Seyed Omid; Haimberger, Leopold; Samimi, Cyrus
Sensitivity of WRF-chem predictions to dust source function specification in West Asia
in Aeolian Research volume 24 (2017) . - page 115-131
doi:10.1016/j.aeolia.2016.12.005 ...
Zandler, Harald; Morche, Thomas; Samimi, Cyrus
Wind and solar power as possible energy alternatives in peripheral high mountains? Insights fro ...
in Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories volume 9 (2017) issue 4. - page 343-354
doi:10.21177/1998-4502-2017-9-4-343-354 ...
2016
Romankiewicz, Clemens; Doevenspeck, Martin; Brandt, Martin; Samimi, Cyrus
Adaptation as by-product : Migration and environmental change in Nguith, Senegal
in Die Erde volume 147 (2016) issue 2. - page 95-108
doi:10.12854/erde-147-7 ...
Nabavi, Seyed Omid; Haimberger, Leopold; Samimi, Cyrus
Climatology of dust distribution over West Asia from homogenized remote sensing data
in Aeolian Research volume 21 (2016) . - page 93-107
doi:10.1016/j.aeolia.2016.04.002 ...
Eklund, Lina; Romankiewicz, Clemens; Brandt, Martin; Doevenspeck, Martin; Samimi, Cyrus
Data and methods in the environment-migration nexus : a scale perspective
in Die Erde volume 147 (2016) issue 2. - page 139-152
doi:10.12854/erde-147-10 ...
Schumacher, Paul; Mislimshoeva, Bunafsha; Brenning, Alexander; Zandler, Harald; Brandt, Martin; Samimi, Cyrus; Koellner, Thomas
Do Red Edge and Texture Attributes from High-Resolution Satellite Data Improve Wood Volume Esti ...
in Remote Sensing volume 8 (2016) issue 7
doi:10.3390/rs8070540 ...
Vanselow, Kim André; Samimi, Cyrus; Breckle, Siegmar-W.
Preserving a Comprehensive Vegetation Knowledge Base : An Evaluation of Four Historical Soviet ...
in PLoS One volume 11 (2016) issue 2. - page e0148930
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148930 ...
Zandler, Harald; Mislimshoeva, Bunafsha; Samimi, Cyrus
Scenarios of Solar Energy Use on the “Roof of the World” : Potentials and Environmental Benefit ...
in Mountain Research and Development volume 36 (2016) issue 3. - page 256-266
doi:10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-15-00077.1 ...
2015
Zandler, Harald; Samimi, Cyrus; Brenning, Alexander
Quantifying dwarf shrub biomass in an arid environment : comparing empirical methods in a high ...
in Remote Sensing of Environment volume 158 (2015) . - page 140-155
doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.11.007 ...
Spiekermann, Raphael; Brandt, Martin; Samimi, Cyrus
Woody vegetation and land cover changes in the Sahel of Mali (1967-2011)
in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation volume 34 (2015) . - page 113-121
doi:10.1016/j.jag.2014.08.007 ...
Samimi, Cyrus
Aktuelle Tendenzen des Klimawandels
Folgen des Klimawandels
Bayreuth : Verlag Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Bayreuth e.V., 2015. - page 7-24 . - (Bayreuther Kontaktstudium Geographie; 8)
Mayr, Manuel J.; Samimi, Cyrus
Comparing the dry season in-situ leaf area index (lai) derived from high-resolution rapideye im ...
in Remote Sensing volume 7 (2015) issue 4. - page 4834-4857
doi:10.3390/rs70404834 ...
2015
Folgen des Klimawandels
publ: Obermaier, Gabriele; Samimi, Cyrus
Bayreuth : Verlag Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Bayreuth e.V., 2015. - 175 page . - (Bayreuther Kontaktstudium Geographie; 8)
Brandt, Martin; Mbow, Cheikh; Diouf, Abdoul Aziz; Verger, Aleixandre; Samimi, Cyrus; Fensholt, Rasmus
Ground- and satellite-based evidence of the biophysical mechanisms behind the greening Sahel
in Global Change Biology volume 21 (2015) issue 4. - page 1610-1620
doi:10.1111/gcb.12807 ...
Zandler, Harald; Samimi, Cyrus; Brenning, Alexander
Potential of Space-Borne Hyperspectral Data for Biomass Quantification in an Arid Environment : ...
in Remote Sensing volume 7 (2015) issue 4. - page 4565-4580
doi:10.3390/rs70404565 ...
Obermaier, Gabriele; Samimi, Cyrus
Transnationale Schutzgebiete im südlichen Afrika
in Praxis Geographie volume 45 (2015) issue 4. - page 24-27
http://www.praxisgeographie.de/heft/61150400/Ausga ...
2014
Brandt, Martin; Romankiewicz, Clemens; Spiekermann, Raphael; Samimi, Cyrus
Environmental change in time series : An interdisciplinary study in the Sahel of Mali and Seneg ...
in Journal of Arid Environments volume 105 (2014) . - page 52-63
doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2014.02.019 ...
Kraudzun, Tobias; Vanselow, Kim André; Samimi, Cyrus
Realities and myths of the Teresken Syndrome : An evaluation of the exploitation of dwarf shrub ...
in Journal of Environmental Management volume 132 (2014) . - page 49-59
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S ...
Staska, Bernadette; Essl, Franz; Samimi, Cyrus
Density and age of invasive "Robinia pseudoacacia" modulate its impact on floodplain forests
in Basic and Applied Ecology volume 15 (2014) issue 6. - page 551-558
doi:10.1016/j.baae.2014.07.010 ...
Glade, Thomas; Bell, Rainer; Dobesberger, Paul; Embleton-Hamann, Christine; Fromm, Reinhard; Fuchs, Sven; Hagen, Karl; Hübl, Johannes; Lieb, Gerhard; Otto, Jan-Christoph; Perzl, Frank; Peticzka, Robert; Prager, Christoph; Samimi, Cyrus; Sass, Oliver; Schöner, Wolfgang; Schröter, Dagmar; Schrott, Lothar; Zangerl, Christian; Zeidler, Antonia
Der Einfluss des Klimawandels auf die Reliefsphäre
Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht Klimawandel 2014 = Austrian Assessment Report 2014 (AAR14): Austrian Panel on Climate Change (APCC)
Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014. - page 557-600
http://austriaca.at/7699-2
Mislimshoeva, Bunafsha; Hable, Robert; Fezakov, Manuchehr; Samimi, Cyrus; Abdulnazarov, Abdulnazar; Koellner, Thomas
Factors influencing households' firewood consumption in the Western Pamirs, Tajikistan
in Mountain Research and Development volume 34 (2014) issue 2. - page 147-156
doi:10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-13-00113.1 ...
Brandt, Martin; Verger, Aleixandre; Diouf, Abdoul Aziz; Baret, Frédéric; Samimi, Cyrus
Local vegetation trends in the sahel of Mali and Senegal using long time series FAPAR satellite ...
in Remote Sensing volume 6 (2014) issue 3. - page 2408-2434
doi:10.3390/rs6032408 ...
Brandt, Martin; Grau, Tobias; Mbow, Cheikh; Samimi, Cyrus
Modeling Soil and Woody Vegetation in the Senegalese Sahel in the Context of Environmental Chan ...
in Land volume 3 (2014) issue 3. - page 770-792
doi:10.3390/land3030770 ...
Vanselow, Kim André; Samimi, Cyrus
Predictive Mapping of Dwarf Shrub Vegetation in an Arid High Mountain Ecosystem Using Remote Se ...
in Remote Sensing volume 6 (2014) issue 7. - page 6709-6726
doi:10.3390/rs6076709 ...
2013
Mislimshoeva, Bunafsha; Samimi, Cyrus; Kirchhoff, Joachim-F.; Koellner, Thomas
Analysis of costs and people's willingness to enroll in forest rehabilitation in Gorno Badakhsh ...
in Forest Policy and Economics volume 37 (2013) . - page 75-83
doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2012.12.001 ...
Kastler, Bernadette; Samimi, Cyrus
The Impact of "Robinia pseudoacacia" on Ground Vegetation and Plant Nutrient Matter in Donau-Au ...
5th Symposium for Research in Protected Areas: 10-12 June 2013, Mittersill ; conference volume
Mittersill : Hohe Tauern National Park Salzburg, 2013. - page 345-352
http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/NP-Hohe ...
Brandt, Martin; Paeth, Heiko; Samimi, Cyrus
Vegetationsveränderungen in Westafrika im Spiegel des Klimawandels und der Landnutzung
in Geographische Rundschau volume 65 (2013) issue 9. - page 36-42
2012
Samimi, Cyrus; Fink, Andreas H.; Paeth, Heiko
The 2007 flood in the Sahel : Causes, characteristics and its presentation in the media and FEW ...
in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences volume 12 (2012) issue 2. - page 313-325
doi:10.5194/nhess-12-313-2012 ...
Romankiewicz, Clemens; Samimi, Cyrus; Brandt, Martin; Spiekermann, Raphael
Detecting environmental change using time series, high resolution imagery and field work : a ca ...
in Geophysical Research Abstracts volume 14 (2012)
http://www.micle-project.net/uploads/media/egu_pos ...
Vanselow, Kim André; Kraudzun, Tobias; Samimi, Cyrus
Grazing practices and pasture tenure in the Eastern Pamirs : The nexus of pasture use, pasture ...
in Mountain Research and Development volume 32 (2012) issue 3. - page 324-336
doi:10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-12-00001.1 ...
Vanselow, Kim André; Kraudzun, Tobias; Samimi, Cyrus
Land stewardship in practice : An example from the Eastern pamirs of Tajikistan
Rangeland Stewardship in Central Asia : balancing improved livelihoods, biodiversity conservation and land protection
Dordrecht; Heidelberg, New York; London : Springer, 2012. - page 71-90
doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5367-9_4 ...
2011
Koller, Ralf; Samimi, Cyrus
Deforestation in the Miombo woodlands : A pixel-based semi-automated change detection method
in International Journal of Remote Sensing volume 32 (2011) issue 22. - page 7631-7649
doi:10.1080/01431161.2010.527390 ...
Zech, Michael; Bimüller, Carolin; Hemp, Andreas; Samimi, Cyrus; Broesike, Christina; Hörold, Claudia; Zech, Wolfgang
Human and climate impact on 15N natural abundance of plants and soils in high-mountain ecosyste ...
in Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies volume 47 (2011) issue 3. - page 286-296
doi:10.1080/10256016.2011.596277 ...
Paeth, Heiko; Fink, Andreas H.; Pohle, Susan; Keis, Felix; Mächel, Hermann; Samimi, Cyrus
Meteorological characteristics and potential causes of the 2007 flood in sub-Saharan Africa
in International Journal of Climatology volume 31 (2011) issue 13. - page 1908-1926
doi:10.1002/joc.2199 ...
2010
Krüger, Fred; Samimi, Cyrus
Entwicklung und Umwelt im südlichen Afrika
in Geographische Rundschau volume 62 (2010) issue 6. - page 4-10
Hassler, Sybille K.; Kreyling, Jürgen; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Eisold, Jenny; Samimi, Cyrus; Wagenseil, Hendrik; Jentsch, Anke
Vegetation pattern divergence between dry and wet season in a semiarid savanna - Spatio-tempora ...
in Journal of Arid Environments volume 74 (2010) issue 11. - page 1516-1524
doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.05.021 ...
2009
Brandt, Martin; Bäumler, Rupert; Samimi, Cyrus
Agricultural suitability of dune system and Limpopo Basin soils near Xai-Xai, Mozambique
in South African Journal of Plant and Soil volume 26 (2009) issue 4. - page 206-212
doi:10.1080/02571862.2009.10639956 ...
Kraus, Tanja; Schmidt, Michael; Dech, Stefan W.; Samimi, Cyrus
Combination of remote sensing and in situ measurements for a detailed assessment of biophysical ...
2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium : IGARSS 2009; Proceedings. Band 3
Piscataway : IEEE, 2009. - page 326-329
doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417766 ...
Kraus, Tanja; Schmidt, Michael; Dech, Stefan W.; Samimi, Cyrus
The potential of optical high resolution data for the assessment of leaf area index in East Afr ...
in International Journal of Remote Sensing volume 30 (2009) issue 19. - page 5039-5059
doi:10.1080/01431160903022878 ...
2007
Wagenseil, Hendrik; Samimi, Cyrus
Woody vegetation cover in Namibian savannahs : A modelling approach based on remote sensing
in Erdkunde volume 61 (2007) issue 4. - page 325-334
doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2007.04.03 ...
2006
Wagenseil, Hendrik; Samimi, Cyrus
Assessing spatio-temporal variations in plant phenology using Fourier analysis on NDVI time ser ...
in International Journal of Remote Sensing volume 27 (2006) issue 16. - page 3455-3471
doi:10.1080/01431160600639743 ...
Samimi, Cyrus; Krüger, Fred
Miombo - Ökologische und soziale Veränderungen im größten Trockenwald der Erde
in Geographische Rundschau volume 58 (2006) issue 10. - page 40-47
Samimi, Cyrus; Nüsser, Marcus
Visionen der Vernetzung von Schutzgebieten im südlichen Afrika
in Natur und Landschaft volume 81 (2006) issue 4. - page 185-192
2004
Samimi, Cyrus; Kraus, Tanja
Biomass estimation using Landsat-TM and -ETM+ : Towards a regional model for Southern Africa?
in GeoJournal volume 59 (2004) issue 3. - page 177-187
doi:10.1023/B:GEJO.0000026688.74589.58 ...
2002
Kraus, Tanja; Samimi, Cyrus
Biomass estimation for land use management and fire management using Landsat-TM and -ETM+
in Erdkunde volume 56 (2002) issue 2. - page 130-143
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