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Daniel A. Friess

Daniel A. Friess

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
71
Citations
19323
World Ranking
1306
National Ranking
481

Overview

Daniel A. Friess is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on the subfields of Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics of their scholarly work include:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Daniel A. Friess has contributed notably to academic literature with several recent papers. Examples include:

  • Blue carbon as a natural climate solution (2021), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Global trends in mangrove forest fragmentation (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • Mangrove Rehabilitation and Restoration as Experimental Adaptive Management (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • A meta-analysis of the ecological and economic outcomes of mangrove restoration (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • A global biophysical typology of mangroves and its relevance for ecosystem structure and deforestation (2020), published in Scientific Reports

Their research is often published in a range of journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • One Earth
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Collaboration is evident in their work with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Catherine E. Lovelock
  • Thomas A. Worthington
  • María Fernanda Adame
  • Erik S. Yando
  • Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

Best Publications

  • Rates and drivers of mangrove deforestation in Southeast Asia, 2000–2012

    Daniel R. Richards;Daniel R. Richards;Daniel A. Friess

  • The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Donald R. Cahoon;Daniel A. Friess;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • The future of Blue Carbon science

    Peter I. Macreadie;Andrea Anton;John A. Raven;John A. Raven;John A. Raven;Nicola Beaumont

  • Blue carbon as a natural climate solution

    Peter I. Macreadie;Micheli D. P. Costa;Trisha B. Atwood;Daniel A. Friess

  • The State of the World's Mangrove Forests: Past, Present, and Future

    Daniel A. Friess;Daniel A. Friess;Kerrylee Rogers;Catherine E. Lovelock;Ken W. Krauss

  • Impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystems: a region by region overview

    Raymond D. Ward;Daniel A. Friess;Richard H. Day;Richard A. MacKenzie

  • World Atlas of Mangroves

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  • Are all intertidal wetlands naturally created equal? Bottlenecks, thresholds and knowledge gaps to mangrove and saltmarsh ecosystems

    Daniel A. Friess;Ken W. Krauss;Erik M. Horstman;Erik M. Horstman;Thorsten Balke

  • Global carbon stocks and potential emissions due to mangrove deforestation from 2000 to 2012

    Stuart E. Hamilton;Daniel A. Friess

  • A rapid indicator of cultural ecosystem service usage at a fine spatial scale: Content analysis of social media photographs

    Daniel R. Richards;Daniel A. Friess

  • Mangrove blue carbon strategies for climate change mitigation are most effective at the national scale.

    Pierre Taillardat;Daniel A. Friess;Massimo Lupascu

  • Global trends in mangrove forest fragmentation.

    Dale N. Bryan-Brown;Rod M. Connolly;Daniel R. Richards;Fernanda Adame

  • Effect of land-use and land-cover change on mangrove blue carbon: A systematic review

    Sigit D. Sasmito;Sigit D. Sasmito;Pierre Taillardat;Pierre Taillardat;Jessica N. Clendenning;Jessica N. Clendenning;Clint Cameron

  • Remote sensing approaches for monitoring mangrove species, structure, and biomass: Opportunities and challenges

    Tien Dat Pham;Naoto Yokoya;Dieu Tien Bui;Kunihiko Yoshino

  • A global standard for monitoring coastal wetland vulnerability to accelerated sea-level rise

    Edward L. Webb;Daniel A. Friess;Ken W. Krauss;Donald R. Cahoon

  • Organic carbon burial and sources in soils of coastal mudflat and mangrove ecosystems

    Sigit D. Sasmito;Sigit D. Sasmito;Yakov Kuzyakov;Ali Arman Lubis;Daniel Murdiyarso;Daniel Murdiyarso

  • Urban coral reefs: Degradation and resilience of hard coral assemblages in coastal cities of East and Southeast Asia.

    Eliza C. Heery;Bert W. Hoeksema;Nicola K. Browne;Nicola K. Browne;James D. Reimer

  • Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss.

    Maria F. Adame;Rod M. Connolly;Mischa P. Turschwell;Catherine E. Lovelock

  • A meta-analysis of the ecological and economic outcomes of mangrove restoration.

    Jie Su;Daniel A. Friess;Alexandros Gasparatos;Alexandros Gasparatos

  • Mangrove Rehabilitation and Restoration as Experimental Adaptive Management

    Aaron M. Ellison;Alexander J. Felson;Alexander J. Felson;Daniel A. Friess

  • Mangroves give cause for conservation optimism, for now

    Daniel A. Friess;Daniel A. Friess;Erik S. Yando;Guilherme M.O. Abuchahla;Janine B. Adams

  • Win-win REDD+ approaches belie carbon-biodiversity trade-offs

    J. Phelps;D.A. Friess;E.L. Webb

  • The state of the world’s mangroves in the 21st century under climate change

    Ilka C. Feller;Daniel A. Friess;Ken W. Krauss;Roy R. Lewis

  • Deforestation in the Ayeyarwady Delta and the conservation implications of an internationally-engaged Myanmar

    Edward L. Webb;Nicholas R.A. Jachowski;Jacob Phelps;Daniel A. Friess

Frequent Co-Authors

Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Université Libre de Bruxelles
Catherine E. Lovelock
Catherine E. Lovelock University of Queensland
Daniel Murdiyarso
Daniel Murdiyarso IPB University
Edward L. Webb
Edward L. Webb University of Helsinki
Lindsay B. Hutley
Lindsay B. Hutley Charles Darwin University
Alan D. Ziegler
Alan D. Ziegler National University of Singapore
Shing Yip Lee
Shing Yip Lee Chinese University of Hong Kong
Stefano Cannicci
Stefano Cannicci University of Hong Kong
Ken W. Krauss
Ken W. Krauss United States Geological Survey
Mark Spalding
Mark Spalding University of Cambridge

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