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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Babak Naimi

Citation names

  • Naimi, Babak

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DF1D-2A69-564A
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5431-2729

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 964773808 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Casa Cordovil 2ª Andar, 7000-890, Evora, Evora, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Physical Geography
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Persian (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2009/04/01 - 2015/02/18
Concluded
 Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Natural Resournces
Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
"On Uncertainty in Species Distribution Modelling" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1998/09/23 - 2001/02/15
Concluded
 Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing (Master)
Major in Soil and Water Resources
Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
"Modelling Biodiversity using Remote Sensing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1994/09/23 - 1998/02/11
Concluded
 Natural Resources Engineering (Bachelor)
Major in Rangeland and Watershed Management
Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Iran
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universiteit Utrecht Nederlands Instituut voor het Recht van de Zee, Netherlands
2021/08/01 - 2053 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair, Portugal
2019/06/01 - 2021/05/31 Researcher (Research) Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
Helsingin yliopisto Geotieteiden ja maantieteen osasto, Finland
2018/06/01 - 2019/06/01 Postdoc (Research) Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Universiteit van Amsterdam Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Netherlands
2017/03/01 - 2018/12/31 Researcher (Research) Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie, Germany
2017/08/01 - 2018/06/01 Postdoc (Research) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Institut für Terrestrische Ökosysteme, Switzerland
2015/03/01 - 2017/02/28 Postdoc (Research) Københavns Universitet, Denmark
Center For Makroøkologi Evolution Og Klima, Denmark
2013/12/09 - 2015/02/28 Contracted Researcher (Research) Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2008/04 - 2011/06 On uncertainty in species distribution modelling
2007/1139/001-001 MUN ECW
 European Commission
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Naimi, B.; Skidmore, A.K.; Hamm, N.A.S.; Groen, T.A.. "Positional error propagation analysis in habitat distribution modelling". 2010.
Journal article
  1. Juan David González-Trujillo; Babak Naimi; Jorge Assis; Miguel B. Araújo. "Reshuffling of Azorean Coastal Marine Biodiversity Amid Climate Change". Journal of Biogeography (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15008.
    10.1111/jbi.15008
  2. Abate Feyissa Senbeta; Walelign Worku; Sebastian Gayler; Babak Naimi. "Unveiling Wheat’s Future Amidst Climate Change in the Central Ethiopia Region". Agriculture (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14081408.
    10.3390/agriculture14081408
  3. Shirin Taheri; Babak Naimi; Miguel B. Araújo. "climetrics: an R package to quantify multiple dimensions of climate change". Ecography (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07176.
    10.1111/ecog.07176
  4. Atiyeh Amindin; Hamid Reza Pourghasemi; Roja Safaeian; Soroor Rahmanian; John P. Tiefenbacher; Babak Naimi. "Predicting Current and Future Habitat Suitability of an Endemic Species Using Data-Fusion Approach: Responses to Climate Change". Rangeland Ecology & Management (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2024.03.002.
    10.1016/j.rama.2024.03.002
  5. Abdolhossein Boali; Hamid Reza Asgari; Ali Mohammadian Behbahani; Abdolrassoul Salmanmahiny; Babak Naimi. "Remotely sensed desertification modeling using ensemble of machine learning algorithms". Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101149.
    10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101149
  6. Nariman Askaripour; Sohrab Ashrafi; Sahar Roshan Ara; Babak Naimi. "Understanding the summer roosting habitat selection of the greater mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) and the small mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma muscatellum) in Iran". Mammal Research (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-022-00644-4.
    10.1007/s13364-022-00644-4
  7. Babak Naimi; César Capinha; Joana Ribeiro; Carsten Rahbek; Diederik Strubbe; Luís Reino; Miguel B. Araújo. "Potential for invasion of traded birds under climate and land-cover change". Global Change Biology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16310.
    10.1111/gcb.16310
  8. Kasper Thorup; Lykke Pedersen; Rute R. da Fonseca; Babak Naimi; David Nogués-Bravo; Mario Krapp; Andrea Manica; et al. "Response of an Afro-Palearctic bird migrant to glaciation cycles". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 52 (2021): e2023836118-e2023836118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023836118.
    10.1073/pnas.2023836118
  9. Lida Davar; Gary Griggs; Afshin Danehkar; Abdolrassoul Salmanmahiny; Hossein Azarnivand; Babak Naimi. "A Spatial Integrated SLR Adaptive Management Plan Framework (SISAMP) toward Sustainable Coasts". Water (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/w13162263.
    10.3390/w13162263
  10. Lilian P. Sales; W. Daniel Kissling; Mauro Galetti; Babak Naimi; Mathias Pires; Brian McGill. "Climate change reshapes the eco-evolutionary dynamics of a Neotropical seed dispersal system". Global Ecology and Biogeography (2021): https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13271.
    10.1111/geb.13271
  11. Nivedita Varma Harisena; Thomas A. Groen; A. G. Toxopeus; Babak Naimi. "When is variable importance estimation in species distribution modelling affected by spatial correlation?". Ecography 44 5 (2021): 778-788. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05534.
    10.1111/ecog.05534
  12. Shirin Taheri; Babak Naimi; Carsten Rahbek; Miguel B. Araújo. "Improvements in reports of species redistribution under climate change are required". Science Advances 7 15 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe1110.
    10.1126/sciadv.abe1110
  13. Miguel B. Araújo; Frederico Mestre; Babak Naimi. "Ecological and epidemiological models are both useful for SARS-CoV-2". Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 9 (2020): 1153-1154. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1246-y.
    10.1038/s41559-020-1246-y
  14. Sara Alibakhshi; Babak Naimi; Aarne Hovi; Thomas W. Crowther; Miina Rautiainen. "Quantitative analysis of the links between forest structure and land surface albedo on a global scale". Remote Sensing of Environment 246 (2020): 111854-111854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111854.
    10.1016/j.rse.2020.111854
  15. Sara Alibakhshi; Thomas W. Crowther; Babak Naimi. "Land surface black-sky albedo at a fixed solar zenith angle and its relation to forest structure during peak growing season based on remote sensing data". Data in Brief 31 (2020): 105720-105720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105720.
    10.1016/j.dib.2020.105720
  16. Hoda Allahbakhshi; Lindsey Conrow; Babak Naimi; Robert Weibel. "Using Accelerometer and GPS Data for Real-Life Physical Activity Type Detection". Sensors 20 3 (2020): 588-588. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20030588.
    10.3390/s20030588
  17. Babak Naimi; Nicholas A.S. Hamm; Thomas A. Groen; Andrew K. Skidmore; Albertus G. Toxopeus; Sara Alibakhshi. "ELSA: Entropy-based local indicator of spatial association". Spatial Statistics 29 (2019): 66-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2018.10.001.
    10.1016/j.spasta.2018.10.001
  18. Miguel B. Araújo; Robert P. Anderson; A. Márcia Barbosa; Colin M. Beale; Carsten F. Dormann; Regan Early; Raquel A. Garcia; et al. "Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments". Science Advances 5 1 (2019): https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat4858.
    10.1126/sciadv.aat4858
  19. M. Jalaeian; A. Golizadeh; A. Sarafrazi; B. Naimi. "Inferring climatic controls of rice stem borers’ spatial distributions using maximum entropy modelling". Journal of Applied Entomology (2018): https://doi.org/10.1111/jen.12493.
    10.1111/jen.12493
  20. "Remotely-Sensed Early Warning Signals of a Critical Transition in a Wetland Ecosystem". Remote Sensing (2017): http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/4/352.
    10.3390/rs9040352
  21. Naimi, B.; Araújo, M.B.. "Sdm: A reproducible and extensible R platform for species distribution modelling". Ecography 39 4 (2016): 368-375. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84959475541&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/ecog.01881
  22. Martínez-López, J.; Martínez-Fernández, J.; Naimi, B.; Carreño, M.F.; Esteve, M.A.. "An open-source spatio-dynamic wetland model of plant community responses to hydrological pressures". Ecological Modelling 306 (2015): 326-333. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84929169990&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.11.024
  23. Mokhtari, S.; Hosseini, S.M.; Danehkar, A.; Azad, M.T.; Kadlec, J.; Jolma, A.; Naimi, B.. "Inferring spatial distribution of oil spill risks from proxies: Case study in the north of the Persian Gulf". Ocean and Coastal Management 116 (2015): 504-511. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84943268818&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.08.017
  24. Sanaz Salati; Frank Van Ruitenbeek; Freek Van der Meer; Babak Naimi. "Detection of Alteration Induced by Onshore Gas Seeps from ASTER and WorldView-2 Data". Remote Sensing (2014): https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6043188.
    10.3390/rs6043188
  25. Taheri, M.; Bakhtiari, A.R.; Naimi, B.; Gholamalifard, M.. "The concentration and spatial distribution of mercury, lead, and cadmium in surface sediments of mangrove forests using geostatistics in GIS environment". Journal of Environmental Studies 40 2 (2014): 297-310. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84921749847&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  26. Naimi, B.; Hamm, N.A.S.; Groen, T.A.; Skidmore, A.K.; Toxopeus, A.G.. "Where is positional uncertainty a problem for species distribution modelling?". Ecography 37 2 (2014): 191-203. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84892673138&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00205.x
  27. Gholamalifard, M.; Esmaili Sari, A.; Abkar, A.; Naimi, B.. "Bathymetric modeling from satellite imagery via Single Band Algorithm (SBA) and Principal Components Analysis (PCA) in Southern Caspian Sea". International Journal of Environmental Research 7 4 (2013): 877-886. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896873945&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  28. Gholamalifard, M.; Kutser, T.; Esmaili-Sari, A.; Abkar, A.A.; Naimi, B.. "Remotely sensed empirical modeling of bathymetry in the southeastern Caspian Sea". Remote Sensing 5 6 (2013): 2746-2762. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880429315&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/rs5062746
  29. Gholamalifard, Mehdi. "Influence of vertical distribution of phytoplankton on remote sensing signal of Case II waters: southern Caspian Sea case study". Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 7 1 (2013): 073550-073550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.7.073550.
    10.1117/1.jrs.7.073550
  30. Naimi, B.; Voinov, A.. "StellaR: A software to translate Stella models into R open-source environment". Environmental Modelling and Software 38 (2012): 117-118. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84862226409&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.05.012
  31. Naimi, B.; Skidmore, A.K.; Groen, T.A.; Hamm, N.A.S.. "Spatial autocorrelation in predictors reduces the impact of positional uncertainty in occurrence data on species distribution modelling". Journal of Biogeography 38 8 (2011): 1497-1509. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960237642&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02523.x
  32. Abbaspour, M.; Mahiny, A.S.; Arjmandy, R.; Naimi, B.. "Integrated approach for land use suitability analysis". International Agrophysics 25 4 (2011): 311-318. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80855141519&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Preprint
  1. Shirin Taheri; Babak Naimi; Miguel B. Araújo. "climetrics: An R package to quantify multiple dimensions of climate change". 2023. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.169769525.52686463/v2.
    10.22541/au.169769525.52686463/v2
  2. Shirin Taheri; Babak Naimi; Miguel Araújo. "climetrics: An R package to quantify multiple dimensions of climate change". 2023. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.169769525.52686463/v1.
    10.22541/au.169769525.52686463/v1

Other

Other output
  1. Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus likely constrained by climate. 2020. Miguel B. Araújo; Babak Naimi. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.12.20034728.
    10.1101/2020.03.12.20034728
  2. The Global Forest Transition is a Human Affair. 2020. Claude A. Garcia; Sini Savilaakso; René W. Verburg; Victoria Gutierrez; Sarah Jane Wilson; Cornelia B. Krug; Marieke Sassen; et al. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0087.v1.
    10.20944/preprints202003.0087.v1
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/07/12 ELSA: A new entropy-based statistic to measure local and global spatial structure Spatial Statistics 2019 : Towards spatial data science
Meliá Sitges Hotel Congress Centre, Sitges, Spain (Sitges, Spain)
2019/01/10 Global Dynamics of Changes in Land Cover Fragmentation Intensity The 9th international conference of the International biogeography
University of Malaga (Malaga, Spain)
2015/01/10 From geographical distributions to ecological niches and back the 7th international conference of the International biogeography Society
University of Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021/11/01 - Current Deep learning of remotely sensed biodiversity dynamics
Co-supervisor of Elham Ebrahimi
 Environmental Science (PhD)
Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
2021/04/01 - Current Time series analysis of desertification early warning signal with an emphasis on remote sensing and field observations
Co-supervisor of Abdolhossein Boali
 Natural Resources (PhD)
Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Iran
2016/09/01 - 2020/08/01 Impact of Land-use Change & Anthropogenic Effects on Stability of Mangrove Ecosystems using Temporal Remote Sensing
Co-supervisor of Ali Koroush Niya
 Geoinformation Science (PhD)
Xiamen University, China
2015/09/01 - 2018/03/04 Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for Sustainable Coastal Zone Management
Co-supervisor of Sahar Mokhtari
 Environmental Science (PhD)
Tarbiat Modares University, Iran

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/03/05 - 2019/03/06 Workshop: spatial modelling for ecologists (2015/03/05)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2019/03/15 MSc thesis examiner
President of the jury
 Harisena, N. V. (Master)
Universiteit Twente, Netherlands

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2013/12/01 - Current Ecography (0906-7590) Wiley-Blackwell

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2010/01/01 - Current International Biogeography Society (IBS) Active member

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2001/01/05 - 2009/09/01 Spatial Analyst, software developer, head of Geoinformatics department, and project manager were the roles I had during almost 10 years of my experience in consulting engineers companies Sabzandish Payesh (SAP) Consulting Engineers Company, Iran

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/03/01 - 2020/06/01 MSc Course: Species distribution modelling Geosciences and Geography (Master) Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
Distinctions

Award

2011 ITC best Scientific paper award
Universiteit Twente, Netherlands

Other distinction

2010 Best scientific presentation prize
Universiteit Twente, Netherlands