Mojdeh Safaei

• Terrestrial ecosystem health assessment
• Data analysis: Utilizing diverse methodologies for ecological and environmental studies.
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS): Landscape ecology and environmental planning applications.
• Ecological modeling and assessment: Developing models for ecosystem function and health evaluation, Species distribution modeling (SDMs)
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Employing ecological indicators to support and achieve SDG targets.
• Vegetation cover analysis
• Soil analysis: health/quality indicators
  
  

MP 178: Empirical Research Methods for Natural Research Analysis

MP 217: Remote sensing and GIS in Landscape ecology

• Peer-reviewed:

  • Golicz K, Choon Cheak S, Jacobs S, Große-Stoltenberg A, Safaei M , Bellingrath-Kimura S, Breuer L, Wartenberg AC (2025) The older, the better: a comprehensive survey of soil organic carbon under commercial oil palm plantations. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 197: 86. [ org/10.1007/s10661-024-13540-y ]

  • Safaei M , Kleinebecker T, Weis M, Große-Stoltenberg A (2024) Tracking effects of extreme drought on coniferous forests from space using Dynamic Habitat Indices. Heliyon 10: e27864 [ doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27864 ]

  • Große-Stoltenberg A , Hanzl A, Safaei M , Kleinebecker T (2024) Once Common, Long in Decline: Dynamics of Traditional Orchards in a Central European Landscape. Land 13:1639. [ doi.org/10.3390/land13101639 ]

  • Safaei M , Kleinebecker T, Große-Stoltenberg A (2023) Potential of the satellite-based Dynamic Habitat Index (DHI) to capture changes in soil properties and drought conditions across Land Use/ Land Cover types. Geocarto International 38: 2292162 [ doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2023.2292162 ]

  • Safaei M , Bashari H, Kleinebecker T, Fakheran S, and Große-Stoltenberg A (2022) Mapping terrestrial ecosystem health in drylands: comparison of field-based information with remotely sensed data at watershed level. Landscape ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01454-4 ]

  • Safaei M , Jafari R, Datta P, Bashari H, Poither D, and Koch B (2021) Spatial scale effect of Sentinel-2, Landsat OLI, and MODIS imagery in the assessment of landscape condition of Zagros Mountains. Geocarto International [ https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2021.1914745 ]

  • Safaei M , Bashari H, Mosadegi MR, and Jafari R (2019) Assessing the impacts of land-use and land cover changes on soil functions using landscape function analysis and soil quality indicators in semi-arid natural ecosystems. CATENA [ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.02.021 ]

  • Safaei M , Jafari R, Bashari H, Fakheran S (2018) Mapping and monitoring the structure and function of rangeland ecosystems in central Zagros, Iran. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 190, 662 (2018) [ DOI: 10.1007/s10661-018-7005-8 ]

  • Safaei M , Tarkesh M, Bashari H, and Basiri M (2018) Modeling potential habitat of Astragalus verus Olivier for conservation decisions: A comparison of three correlative models. Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants [ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2018.03.001 ]
    
    
    
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  • Safaei M , Kleinebecker T, Bobric S,  Große-Stoltenberg A (2023) Concept for the sustainable development of the green spaces of the Justus Liebig University Gießen. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7732763,
    

    (DE) GreenJLU: Teil1:Kartierung
    (DE) GreenJLU: Teil2: Diversität
    (DE) GreenJLU: Teil3: Maßnahmen, um Grünflächen aufzuwerten
    (DE) GreenJLU: Teil4: Wie viel Kohlenstoff speichern die Grünflächen der JLU
    (EN) GreenJLU:Part1: mapping
    (EN) GreenJLU: Part2: Diversity of woody species
    

    
    
    Conferences:
  • Safaei M , bobric S, Kleinebecker T (2023) Developing a concept for sustainable green space management (case study: green space of Justus- Liebig University of Giessen, JLU). 52nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Leipzig - 12-16 September 2023. pdf p 1007 (Oral presentation)
  • Safaei M , Kleinebecker T, Große-Stoltenberg A (2022) Effects of the 2018 summer drought on Central European forests: a remote sensing perspective using Dynamic Habitat Indicator. SFE² GfÖ EEF Joint meeting, International Conference on Ecological Sciences, Ecology, and Evolution: New perspectives and societal challenges, 21-25 Nov 2022 Metz (France) (Poster)
  • Safaei M , Kleinebecker T, Große-Stoltenberg A (2022) Quantifying land degradation in support of the Sustainable Development Goal SDG 15.3.1 using earth observation tools. Workshop on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting (EO4EA 2022) 28 November - 01 December 2022. Advancing Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting (Poster)
  • Safaei M , Bashari H, Kleinebecker T, Fakheran S, Jafari R, Große-Stoltenberg A, (2021) Application of remote sensing in the spatial characterization of ecosystem health and degradation. 50th Anniversary Conference Ecology Science in Transition, Science for Transition, Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), 30th August – 1st September, https://doi.org/10.24355/dbbs.084-202108120758-0 p 216 (Oral presentation)
  • Shirmardi H, Safaei M (2013) Introduction and Protection Category of Medicinal Plants Species in the Helen Protected Area, Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province.1st International Conference IALE-Iran 30-31 October 2013, Isfahan, Iran. https://www.civilica.com/Paper-IALE01-IALE01_135.html. (Oral presentation-In Persian)
  • Safaei M , Tarkesh M (2013) The impact of sample size on the accuracy of logistic regression (LR) and Ecological Niche Factor Analysis (ENFA) methods. 1st International Conference of IALE Iran 30-31 October 2013, Isfahan, Iran. (Oral presentation-In Persian).