I am a geographer by training. My work is centered on understanding coupled human-environment systems in global drylands using Earth-observing satellites, geographic information systems and statistical modeling. I have a PhD in Geobiosphere Science from Lund University and a joint MSc in Geospatial Technologies from the University of Münster in Germany and the New University of Lisbon in Portugal. I received my BSc in Geoscience from Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA.
I am current funded by the Swedish Research Council’s International Postdoc Grant to investigate the role of intra- and inter-seasonal drought on CO2 uptake in drylands using a multi-scalar and multi-temporal Earth observation-based framework. Drylands have a disproportionately large impact on the global climate system and this project will fill a considerable gap in our knowledge about the processes that govern current trends and inter-annual variability in terrestrial CO2 uptake over ecosystems.
You can find me on Twitter or on my personal website. A list of my publications can be found on ORCID.
Publications
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Contrasting ecosystem vegetation response in global drylands under drying and wetting conditions
Christin Abel, Abdulhakim M Abdi, Torbern Tagesson, Stephanie Horion, Rasmus Fensholt
(2023) Global Change Biology
Journal articleSatellite-Observed Spatial and Temporal Sea Surface Temperature Trends of the Baltic Sea between 1982 and 2021
Sadegh Jamali, Arsalan Ghorbanian, Abdulhakim M. Abdi
(2023) Remote Sensing, 15
Journal articleGlobally Increasing Atmospheric Aridity Over the 21st Century
Zhongxiang Fang, Wenmin Zhang, Martin Brandt, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Rasmus Fensholt
(2022) Earth's Future, 10
Journal articleUrban land use and land cover classification with interpretable machine learning – A case study using Sentinel-2 and auxiliary data
Benyamin Hosseiny, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Sadegh Jamali
(2022) Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 28
Journal articleSatellite Remote Sensing of Savannas: Current Status and Emerging Opportunities
Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Martin Brandt, Christin Abel, Rasmus Fensholt
(2022) Journal of Remote Sensing, 2022
Journal articlePublic preference for sustainable land use policies – Empirical results from multinomial logit model analysis
Abdishakur W. Diriye, Osman M. Jama, Jama Warsame Diriye, Abdulhakim M. Abdi
(2022) Land Use Policy, 114
Journal articleFour Decades of Air Temperature Data over Iran Reveal Linear and Nonlinear Warming
Majid Kazemzadeh, Zahra Noori, Sadegh Jamali, Abdulhakim M. Abdi
(2022) Journal of Meteorological Research, 36 p.462-477
Journal articleUnderstanding young people’s perception toward forestation as a strategy to mitigate climate change in a post-conflict developing country
Osman M. Jama, Abdishakur W. Diriye, Abdulhakim M. Abdi
(2022) Environment, Development and Sustainability
Journal articleValue of cultural worldviews and message framing for the acceptability of sustainable land use zoning policies in post-conflict Somalia
Abdishakur W. Diriye, Osman M. Jama, Ren Chong, Abdulhakim M. Abdi
(2021) Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Journal articleBiodiversity decline with increasing crop productivity in agricultural fields revealed by satellite remote sensing
Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Romain Carrié, William Sidemo-Holm, Zhanzhang Cai, Niklas Boke-Olén, et al.
(2021) Ecological Indicators, 130
Journal articleOn the Geopolitics of Fire, Conflict and Land in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Lina Eklund, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Aiman Shahpurwala, Pinar Dinc
(2021) Remote Sensing, 13 p.1575-1575
Journal articleThe human–environment nexus and vegetation–rainfall sensitivity in tropical drylands
Christin Abel, Stéphanie Horion, Torbern Tagesson, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Alistair W.R. Seddon, et al.
(2020) Nature Sustainability, 4 p.25-32
Journal articleAgricultural productivity in relation to climate and cropland management in West Africa
Altaaf Mechiche-Alami, Abdulhakim Abdi
(2020) Scientific Reports, 10
Journal articleParticipation of civil society in decisions to mitigate environmental degradation in post-conflict societies: evidence from Somalia
Osman M. Jama, Guijian Liu, Abdishakur W. Diriye, Balal Yousaf, Ibrahim Basiru, et al.
(2020) Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 63 p.1695-1715
Journal articleMapping and quantifying perceptions of environmental change in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
Emma Johansson, Abdulhakim Abdi
(2020) Ambio: a Journal of Human Environment, 49 p.557-568
Journal articleLarge-Scale Retrieval of Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter in Northern Lakes Using Sentinel-2 Data
Enass Said. Al-kharusi, David E. Tenenbaum, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Tiit Kutser, Jan Karlsson, et al.
(2020) Remote Sensing, 12 p.157-157
Journal articleLand cover and land use classification performance of machine learning algorithms in a boreal landscape using Sentinel-2 data
Abdulhakim Abdi
(2020) GIScience and Remote Sensing, 57 p.1-20
Journal articleIdentifying multidisciplinary research gaps across Arctic terrestrial gradients
Anna-maria Ilona Virkkala, Abdulhakim M Abdi, Miska Luoto, Daniel Metcalfe
(2019) Environmental Research Letters, 14
Journal articleFirst assessment of the plant phenology index (PPI) for estimating gross primary productivity in African semi-arid ecosystems
A. M. Abdi, N. Boke-Olén, H. Jin, L. Eklundh, T. Tagesson, et al.
(2019) International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 78 p.249-260
Journal articleThe Arctic : we don’t know as much about environmental change in the far north as we’d like to think
Abdulhakim Abdi, Dan Metcalfe
(2018) The Conversation
Journal articleRiverine dissolved organic carbon in Rukarara River Watershed, Rwanda
Fabien Rizinjirabake, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, David E. Tenenbaum, Petter Pilesjö
(2018) Science of the Total Environment, 643 p.793-806
Journal articlePatchy field sampling biases understanding of climate change impacts across the Arctic
Daniel B. Metcalfe, Thirze D.G. Hermans, Jenny Ahlstrand, Michael Becker, Martin Berggren, et al.
(2018) Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2 p.1443-1448
Journal articleEstimating Grazing Potentials in Sudan Using Daily Carbon Allocation in Dynamic Vegetation Model
Niklas Boke-Olén, Veiko Lehsten, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Jonas Ardö, Abdelrahman A. Khatir
(2018) Rangeland Ecology and Management, 71 p.792-797
Journal articleData for dynamics analysis of riverine dissolved organic carbon in Rukarara watershed, Rwanda
Fabien Rizinjirabake, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, David E. Tenenbaum, Petter Pilesjö
(2018) Data in Brief, 20 p.1252-1255
Journal articleFuture supply and demand of net primary production in the Sahel
Florian Sallaba, Stefan Olin, Kerstin Engström, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Niklas Boke-Olén, et al.
(2017) Earth System Dynamics, 8 p.1191-1221
Journal articleExamining the NDVI-rainfall relationship in the semi-arid Sahel using geographically weighted regression
Stefanos Georganos, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, David E. Tenenbaum, Stamatis Kalogirou
(2017) Journal of Arid Environments , p.64-74
Journal articleSomalia conflict and famine: the causes are bad governance, not climate change
Abdulhakim Abdi
(2017) The Conversation
Journal articleChad is the country most vulnerable to climate change – here’s why
Abdulhakim Abdi
(2017) The Conversation
Journal articleEvaluating Water Controls on Vegetation Growth in the Semi-Arid Sahel Using Field and Earth Observation Data
Abdulhakim Abdi, Niklas Boke-Olén, David Tenenbaum, Torbern Tagesson, Bernard Cappelaere, et al.
(2017) Remote Sensing, 9
Journal articleModelling spatial and temporal dynamics of gross primary production in the Sahel from earth-observation-based photosynthetic capacity and quantum efficiency
Torbern Tagesson, Jonas Ardö, Bernard Cappelaere, Laurent Kergoat, Abdulhakim Abdi, et al.
(2017) Biogeosciences, 14 p.1333-1348
Journal articlePrimary Production in African Drylands : Quantifying Supply and Demand Using Earth Observation and Socio-ecological Data
Abdulhakim Abdi
(2017)
DissertationData Descriptor : High-resolution African population projections from radiative forcing and socio-economic models, 2000 to 2100
Niklas Boke-Olén, Hakim Abdi, Ola Hall, Veiko Lehsten
(2017) Scientific Data, 4
Journal articleFrom Producers to Consumers: The Challenges and Opportunities of Agricultural Development in Iraqi Kurdistan
Lina Eklund, Abdulhakim Abdi, Mine Islar
(2017) Land, 6
Journal articleThe El Niño – La Niña cycle and recent trends in supply and demand of net primary productivity in African drylands
Hakim Abdi, Genesis Tambang Yengoh, Jonathan Seaquist, Jonas Ardö, Anton Vrieling, et al.
(2016) Climatic Change, 138 p.111-125
Journal articleThe supply and demand of net primary production in the Sahel
Hakim Abdi, Jonathan Seaquist, David Tenenbaum, Lars Eklundh, Jonas Ardö
(2014) Environmental Research Letters, 9 p.11-094003
Journal articleDeformation, warming and softening of Greenland’s ice by refreezing meltwater
Robin Bell, Kirsteen Tinto, Indrani Das, Michael Wolovick, Winnie Chu, et al.
(2014) Nature Geoscience, 7 p.497-502
Journal articleIntegrating Open Access Geospatial Data to Map the Habitat Suitability of the Declining Corn Bunting (Miliaria calandra)
Hakim Abdi
(2013) ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2 p.935-954
Journal articleA preliminary analysis of the supply and demand of net primary production in the semi-arid Sahel
Hakim Abdi, Jonas Ardö, Jonathan Seaquist, Lars Eklundh, David Tenenbaum
(2013)
Conference paper: abstractAbu Dhabi Island: Analysis of Development and Vegetation Change Using Remote Sensing (1972–2000)
Hakim Abdi, Anand Nandipati
(2010) Advances in Earth Observation of Global Change , p.43-53
Book chapter