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Salman Qureshi is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Plant Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The main research topics covered by Qureshi include Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Green Space and Health, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Urban Transport and Accessibility.

Qureshi has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Among their recent papers are:

  • "Monitoring and Modeling the Patterns and Trends of Urban Growth Using Urban Sprawl Matrix and CA-Markov Model: A Case Study of Karachi, Pakistan" (2021, Land)
  • "A Remotely Sensed Assessment of Surface Ecological Change over the Gomishan Wetland, Iran" (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • "Fine-grained assessment of greenspace satisfaction at regional scale using content analysis of social media and machine learning" (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Characterizing Spatiotemporal Variations in the Urban Thermal Environment Related to Land Cover Changes in Karachi, Pakistan, from 2000 to 2020" (2022, Remote Sensing)
  • "Revealing the differences of urban parks' services to human wellbeing based upon social media data" (2021, Urban forestry & urban greening)

The scientist often collaborates with several co-authors, including Dagmar Haase, Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei, Mir Muhammad Nizamani, Zhifang Wang, and Mahsa Tarashkar.

Salman Qureshi's work has been published frequently in journals such as Remote Sensing, Land, Sustainable Cities and Society, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.

In addition to journal articles, Qureshi has published books with Springer International Publishing, including two editions of "Making Green Cities," released in 2020 and 2023.

Best Publications

  • A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation

    Dagmar Haase;Neele Larondelle;Erik Andersson;Martina Artmann

  • Human–environment interactions in urban green spaces — A systematic review of contemporary issues and prospects for future research

    Nadja Kabisch;Nadja Kabisch;Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi;Dagmar Haase;Dagmar Haase

  • Advancing Urban Ecology toward a Science of Cities

    Timon McPhearson;Steward T. A. Pickett;Nancy B. Grimm;Jari Niemela

  • Monitoring spatio-temporal aerosol patterns over Pakistan based on MODIS, TOMS and MISR satellite data and a HYSPLIT model

    Khan Alam;Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi;Thomas Blaschke

  • Heavy metal content in urban soils as an indicator of anthropogenic and natural influences on landscape of Karachi—A multivariate spatio-temporal analysis

    Zahida Karim;Bilal Aslam Qureshi;Majid Mumtaz;Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi

  • The Role of Vegetation in Mitigating Urban Land Surface Temperatures: A Case Study of Munich, Germany during the Warm Season

    Sadroddin Alavipanah;Martin Wegmann;Salman Qureshi;Qihao Weng

  • The effect of multi-dimensional indicators on urban thermal conditions

    Saddrodin Alavipanah;Johannes Schreyer;Dagmar Haase;Dagmar Haase;Tobia Lakes

  • Monitoring spatio-temporal variations in aerosols and aerosol-cloud interactions over Pakistan using MODIS data

    Khan Alam;Khan Alam;Muhammad Jawed Iqbal;Thomas Blaschke;Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi

  • What determines the use of urban green spaces in highly urbanized areas? – Examples from two fast growing Asian cities

    Sophie Schetke;Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi;Sven Lautenbach;Nadja Kabisch;Nadja Kabisch

  • Monitoring and forecasting heat island intensity through multi-temporal image analysis and cellular automata-Markov chain modelling: A case of Babol city, Iran

    Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei;Majid Kiavarz;Seyed Kazem Alavipanah;Tobia Lakes

  • Monitoring and Modeling the Patterns and Trends of Urban Growth Using Urban Sprawl Matrix and CA-Markov Model: A Case Study of Karachi, Pakistan

    Muhammad Fahad Baqa;Fang Chen;Linlin Lu;Salman Qureshi

  • Green Space Functionality Along an Urban Gradient in Karachi, Pakistan: A Socio-Ecological Study

    Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi;Jürgen H. Breuste;Sarah J. Lindley

  • Characterizing Spatiotemporal Variations in the Urban Thermal Environment Related to Land Cover Changes in Karachi, Pakistan, from 2000 to 2020

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  • Applying the concept of spatial resilience to socio-ecological systems in the urban wetland interface

    Yangfan Li;Yangfan Li;Yangfan Li;Yalou Shi;Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi;Antje Bruns

  • The fast growing megacity Karachi as a frontier of environmental challenges: Urbanization and contemporary urbanism issues

    Salman Qureshi

  • Ecological disturbances due to high cutback in the green infrastructure of Karachi: Analyses of public perception about associated health problems

    Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi;Syed Jamil Hasan Kazmi;Jürgen H. Breuste

  • Urban sustainability, urban ecology and the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE)

    Jürgen Breuste;Salman Qureshi

  • Differential community and the perception of urban green spaces and their contents in the megacity of Karachi, Pakistan

    Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi;Jürgen H. Breuste;Chi Yung Jim

  • Urban Ecosystem services on the local level: Urban green spaces as providers

    Jürgen Breuste;Johanna Schnellinger;Salman Qureshi;Ana Maria Faggi

  • A Remotely Sensed Assessment of Surface Ecological Change over the Gomishan Wetland, Iran

    Salman Qureshi;Seyed Kazem Alavipanah;Maria Konyushkova;Naeim Mijani

  • On the relationship between landscape ecological patterns and water quality across gradient zones of rapid urbanization in coastal China

    Yi Li;Yi Li;Yangfan Li;Salman Qureshi;Salman Qureshi;Martin Kappas

Frequent Co-Authors

Dagmar Haase
Dagmar Haase Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Nadja Kabisch
Nadja Kabisch Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Mehdi Homaee
Mehdi Homaee Tarbiat Modares University
Thomas Blaschke
Thomas Blaschke University of Salzburg
Chi Yung Jim
Chi Yung Jim Education University of Hong Kong
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
Thomas Elmqvist
Thomas Elmqvist Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stephan Pauleit
Stephan Pauleit Technical University of Munich
Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal University of Agriculture Faisalabad

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