Dr Alejandra Vovides
- Research Associate in Urban Wetland Ecology (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
email:
Alejandra.Vovides@glasgow.ac.uk
Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Research interests
Morphological plasticity
Adaptive responses to environmental change
Root interaction networks
Restoration Ecology
Mangrove Ecology
Publications
2024
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Basyuni, Mohammad, Bimantara, Yunta, Slamet, Bejo, Sulistiyono, Nurdin and Balke, Thorsten
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069
(2024)
Abiotic drivers of mudflat colonization by mangroves in Indonesia: a knowledge base to support ecological restoration.
Bulletin of Marine Science,
(doi: 10.5343/bms.2024.0019)
(Early Online Publication)
Ladd, Cai J.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474, Vovides, Alejandra G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Schwarz, Christian and Balke, Thorsten
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069
(2024)
Monitoring tides, currents, and waves along coastal habitats using the Mini Buoy.
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 22(9),
pp. 619-633.
(doi: 10.1002/lom3.10631)
Wimmler, M.-C. et al. (2024) Sap flow analyzer: a tool to standardize sap flow estimation and scaling to whole-tree water use using the HFD method. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(9), pp. 1532-1539. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.14392)
2023
Naylor, L.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Kosová, E., James, K., Vovides, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, MacArthur, M. and Nicholson, P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4131-165X
(2023)
Timing of deployment does not affect the biodiversity outcomes of ecological enhancement of coastal flood defences in northern Europe.
Nature-Based Solutions, 3,
100051.
(doi: 10.1016/j.nbsj.2023.100051)
Kosová, Eliška, James, Kelly, MacArthur, Mairi, Vovides, Alejandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Peters, John, Metcalfe, Daniel, Roberts, Kenny and Naylor, Larissa A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674
(2023)
The BioGeo Ecotile: improving biodiversity on coastal defences using a multiscale, multispecies eco-engineering design.
Ecological Engineering, 188,
106881.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106881)
Rahman, M. F. et al. (2023) Locally led adaptation is key to ending deforestation. One Earth, 6(2), pp. 81-85. (doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.01.011)
Balke, Thorsten ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Vovides, Alejandra G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Ladd, Cai J.T.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474 and Huxham, Mark
(2023)
The coastal conservation narrative is shifting from crisis to ecosystem services.
Marine Biodiversity, 53(1),
3.
(doi: 10.1007/s12526-022-01304-1)
2022
Krauss, K. W. et al. (2022) Mangroves provide blue carbon ecological value at a low freshwater cost. Scientific Reports, 12, 17636. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-21514-8) (PMID:36271232) (PMCID:PMC9586979)
Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Peters, Ronny, Walther, Marc, Nadezhdina, Nadezhda and Berger, Uta
(2022)
Root grafts matter for inter-tree water exchange – a quantification of water translocation between root grafted mangrove trees using field data and model based indication.
Annals of Botany, 130(3),
pp. 317-330.
(doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac074)
(PMID:35686514)
Basyuni, Mohammad, Bimantara, Yuntha, Cuc, Nguyen T.K., Balke, Thorsten ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069 and Vovides, Alejandra G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770
(2022)
Macrozoobenthic community assemblage as key indicator for mangrove restoration success in North Sumatra and Aceh, Indonesia.
Restoration Ecology, 30(7),
e13614.
(doi: 10.1111/rec.13614)
Jucker, T. et al. (2022) Tallo: a global tree allometry and crown architecture database. Global Change Biology, 28(17), pp. 5254-5268. (doi: 10.1111/gcb.16302) (PMID:35703577)
2021
Grueters, U. et al. (2021) Stable coexistence in a field-calibrated individual-based model of mangrove forest dynamics caused by inter-specific crown plasticity. Remote Sensing, 12(7), 955. (doi: 10.3390/f12070955)
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Schrewe, Falk, Balke, Thorsten
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Zwanzig, Martin, Piou, Cyril, Delay, Etienne, López-Portillo, Jorge and Berger, Uta
(2021)
Cooperative root graft networks benefit mangrove trees under stress.
Communications Biology, 4,
513.
(doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02044-x)
(PMID:33953329)
(PMCID:PMC8100114)
Loubota Panzou, G. J. et al. (2021) Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(2), pp. 459-475. (doi: 10.1111/geb.13231)
Balke, Thorsten ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Vovides, Alejandra
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Schwarz, Christian, Chmura, Gail L., Ladd, Cai
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474 and Basyuni, Mohammad
(2021)
Monitoring tidal hydrology in coastal wetlands with the Mini Buoy: applications for mangrove restoration.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25,
pp. 1229-1244.
(doi: 10.5194/hess-25-1229-2021)
2020
Vovides, Alejandra J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Berger, Uta and Balke, Thorsten
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069
(2020)
Morphological plasticity and survival thresholds of mangrove plants growing in active sedimentary environments.
In: Friess, Daniel and Sidik, Frida (eds.)
Dynamic Sedimentary Environments of Mangrove Coasts.
Elsevier.
ISBN 9780128164372
Naylor, Larissa A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Kippen, Hugh, MacArthur, M., Hansom, James D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4443-2089, Vovides, Alejandra G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Zaldívar-Jiménez, Arturo and Pérez-Ceballos, Rosela
(2020)
Urban estuaries and coasts.
In: Douglas, Ian, Anderson, P.M.L., Goode, David, Houck, Michael C., Maddox, David, Nagendra, Harini and Puay Yok, Tan (eds.)
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, 2nd edition.
Routledge, pp. 210-224.
ISBN 9780429506758
2019
Echeverría-Ávila, Stephanie, Pérez-Ceballos, Rosela, Zaldívar-Jiménez, Arturo, Canales-Delgadillo, Julio, Brito-Pérez, Roberto, Merino-Ibarra, Martín and Vovides, Alejandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770
(2019)
Regeneración natural de sitios de manglar degradado
en respuesta a la restauración hidrológica = Natural regeneration of degraded mangrove sites in response to hydrological restoration.
Madera y Bosques, 25(1),
e2511754.
(doi: 10.21829/myb.2019.2511754)
2018
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Berger, Uta, Grueters, Uwe, Guevara, Roger, Pommerening, Arne, Lara-Domínguez, Ana Laura and López-Portillo, Jorge
(2018)
Change in drivers of mangrove crown displacement along a salinity stress gradient.
Functional Ecology, 32(12),
pp. 2753-2765.
(doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13218)
2016
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Marín-Castro, Beatriz, Barradas, Guadalupe, Berger, Uta and López-Portillo, Jorge
(2016)
A simple and cost-effective method for cable root detection and extension measurement in estuary wetland forests.
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 183(Part A),
pp. 117-122.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.10.029)
2014
Grueters, U., Seltmann, T., Schmidt, H., Horn, H., Pranchai, A., Vovides, A.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Peters, R., Vogt, J., Dahdouh-Guebas, F. and Berger, U.
(2014)
The mangrove forest dynamics model mesoFON.
Ecological Modelling, 291,
pp. 28-41.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.07.014)
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Vogt, Juliane, Kollert, Armin, Berger, Uta, Grueters, Uwe, Peters, Ronny, Lara-Domínguez, Ana Laura and López-Portillo, Jorge
(2014)
Morphological plasticity in mangrove trees: salinity-related changes in the allometry of Avicennia germinans.
Trees, 28(5),
pp. 1413-1425.
(doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1044-8)
Peters, Ronny, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Luna, Soledad, Grüters, Uwe and Berger, Uta
(2014)
Changes in allometric relations of mangrove trees due to resource availability – a new mechanistic modelling approach.
Ecological Modelling, 283,
pp. 53-61.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.04.001)
2011
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, López-Portillo, Jorge and Bashan, Yoav
(2011)
N2-fixation along a gradient of long-term disturbance in tropical mangroves bordering the gulf of Mexico.
Biology and Fertility of Soils, 47(5),
pp. 567-576.
(doi: 10.1007/s00374-011-0562-4)
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Bashan, Yoav, López-Portillo, Jorge A. and Guevara, Roger
(2011)
Nitrogen fixation in preserved, reforested, naturally regenerated and impaired mangroves as an indicator of functional restoration in mangroves in an arid region of Mexico.
Restoration Ecology, 19(201),
pp. 236-244.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00713.x)
Articles
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Basyuni, Mohammad, Bimantara, Yunta, Slamet, Bejo, Sulistiyono, Nurdin and Balke, Thorsten
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069
(2024)
Abiotic drivers of mudflat colonization by mangroves in Indonesia: a knowledge base to support ecological restoration.
Bulletin of Marine Science,
(doi: 10.5343/bms.2024.0019)
(Early Online Publication)
Ladd, Cai J.T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474, Vovides, Alejandra G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Schwarz, Christian and Balke, Thorsten
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069
(2024)
Monitoring tides, currents, and waves along coastal habitats using the Mini Buoy.
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 22(9),
pp. 619-633.
(doi: 10.1002/lom3.10631)
Wimmler, M.-C. et al. (2024) Sap flow analyzer: a tool to standardize sap flow estimation and scaling to whole-tree water use using the HFD method. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(9), pp. 1532-1539. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.14392)
Naylor, L.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Kosová, E., James, K., Vovides, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, MacArthur, M. and Nicholson, P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4131-165X
(2023)
Timing of deployment does not affect the biodiversity outcomes of ecological enhancement of coastal flood defences in northern Europe.
Nature-Based Solutions, 3,
100051.
(doi: 10.1016/j.nbsj.2023.100051)
Kosová, Eliška, James, Kelly, MacArthur, Mairi, Vovides, Alejandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Peters, John, Metcalfe, Daniel, Roberts, Kenny and Naylor, Larissa A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674
(2023)
The BioGeo Ecotile: improving biodiversity on coastal defences using a multiscale, multispecies eco-engineering design.
Ecological Engineering, 188,
106881.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106881)
Rahman, M. F. et al. (2023) Locally led adaptation is key to ending deforestation. One Earth, 6(2), pp. 81-85. (doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.01.011)
Balke, Thorsten ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Vovides, Alejandra G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Ladd, Cai J.T.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474 and Huxham, Mark
(2023)
The coastal conservation narrative is shifting from crisis to ecosystem services.
Marine Biodiversity, 53(1),
3.
(doi: 10.1007/s12526-022-01304-1)
Krauss, K. W. et al. (2022) Mangroves provide blue carbon ecological value at a low freshwater cost. Scientific Reports, 12, 17636. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-21514-8) (PMID:36271232) (PMCID:PMC9586979)
Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Peters, Ronny, Walther, Marc, Nadezhdina, Nadezhda and Berger, Uta
(2022)
Root grafts matter for inter-tree water exchange – a quantification of water translocation between root grafted mangrove trees using field data and model based indication.
Annals of Botany, 130(3),
pp. 317-330.
(doi: 10.1093/aob/mcac074)
(PMID:35686514)
Basyuni, Mohammad, Bimantara, Yuntha, Cuc, Nguyen T.K., Balke, Thorsten ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069 and Vovides, Alejandra G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770
(2022)
Macrozoobenthic community assemblage as key indicator for mangrove restoration success in North Sumatra and Aceh, Indonesia.
Restoration Ecology, 30(7),
e13614.
(doi: 10.1111/rec.13614)
Jucker, T. et al. (2022) Tallo: a global tree allometry and crown architecture database. Global Change Biology, 28(17), pp. 5254-5268. (doi: 10.1111/gcb.16302) (PMID:35703577)
Grueters, U. et al. (2021) Stable coexistence in a field-calibrated individual-based model of mangrove forest dynamics caused by inter-specific crown plasticity. Remote Sensing, 12(7), 955. (doi: 10.3390/f12070955)
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Schrewe, Falk, Balke, Thorsten
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Zwanzig, Martin, Piou, Cyril, Delay, Etienne, López-Portillo, Jorge and Berger, Uta
(2021)
Cooperative root graft networks benefit mangrove trees under stress.
Communications Biology, 4,
513.
(doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02044-x)
(PMID:33953329)
(PMCID:PMC8100114)
Loubota Panzou, G. J. et al. (2021) Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(2), pp. 459-475. (doi: 10.1111/geb.13231)
Balke, Thorsten ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Vovides, Alejandra
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Schwarz, Christian, Chmura, Gail L., Ladd, Cai
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474 and Basyuni, Mohammad
(2021)
Monitoring tidal hydrology in coastal wetlands with the Mini Buoy: applications for mangrove restoration.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25,
pp. 1229-1244.
(doi: 10.5194/hess-25-1229-2021)
Echeverría-Ávila, Stephanie, Pérez-Ceballos, Rosela, Zaldívar-Jiménez, Arturo, Canales-Delgadillo, Julio, Brito-Pérez, Roberto, Merino-Ibarra, Martín and Vovides, Alejandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770
(2019)
Regeneración natural de sitios de manglar degradado
en respuesta a la restauración hidrológica = Natural regeneration of degraded mangrove sites in response to hydrological restoration.
Madera y Bosques, 25(1),
e2511754.
(doi: 10.21829/myb.2019.2511754)
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Berger, Uta, Grueters, Uwe, Guevara, Roger, Pommerening, Arne, Lara-Domínguez, Ana Laura and López-Portillo, Jorge
(2018)
Change in drivers of mangrove crown displacement along a salinity stress gradient.
Functional Ecology, 32(12),
pp. 2753-2765.
(doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13218)
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Marín-Castro, Beatriz, Barradas, Guadalupe, Berger, Uta and López-Portillo, Jorge
(2016)
A simple and cost-effective method for cable root detection and extension measurement in estuary wetland forests.
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 183(Part A),
pp. 117-122.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2016.10.029)
Grueters, U., Seltmann, T., Schmidt, H., Horn, H., Pranchai, A., Vovides, A.G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Peters, R., Vogt, J., Dahdouh-Guebas, F. and Berger, U.
(2014)
The mangrove forest dynamics model mesoFON.
Ecological Modelling, 291,
pp. 28-41.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.07.014)
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Vogt, Juliane, Kollert, Armin, Berger, Uta, Grueters, Uwe, Peters, Ronny, Lara-Domínguez, Ana Laura and López-Portillo, Jorge
(2014)
Morphological plasticity in mangrove trees: salinity-related changes in the allometry of Avicennia germinans.
Trees, 28(5),
pp. 1413-1425.
(doi: 10.1007/s00468-014-1044-8)
Peters, Ronny, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Luna, Soledad, Grüters, Uwe and Berger, Uta
(2014)
Changes in allometric relations of mangrove trees due to resource availability – a new mechanistic modelling approach.
Ecological Modelling, 283,
pp. 53-61.
(doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.04.001)
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, López-Portillo, Jorge and Bashan, Yoav
(2011)
N2-fixation along a gradient of long-term disturbance in tropical mangroves bordering the gulf of Mexico.
Biology and Fertility of Soils, 47(5),
pp. 567-576.
(doi: 10.1007/s00374-011-0562-4)
Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Bashan, Yoav, López-Portillo, Jorge A. and Guevara, Roger
(2011)
Nitrogen fixation in preserved, reforested, naturally regenerated and impaired mangroves as an indicator of functional restoration in mangroves in an arid region of Mexico.
Restoration Ecology, 19(201),
pp. 236-244.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00713.x)
Book Sections
Vovides, Alejandra J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Berger, Uta and Balke, Thorsten
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069
(2020)
Morphological plasticity and survival thresholds of mangrove plants growing in active sedimentary environments.
In: Friess, Daniel and Sidik, Frida (eds.)
Dynamic Sedimentary Environments of Mangrove Coasts.
Elsevier.
ISBN 9780128164372
Naylor, Larissa A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Kippen, Hugh, MacArthur, M., Hansom, James D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4443-2089, Vovides, Alejandra G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Zaldívar-Jiménez, Arturo and Pérez-Ceballos, Rosela
(2020)
Urban estuaries and coasts.
In: Douglas, Ian, Anderson, P.M.L., Goode, David, Houck, Michael C., Maddox, David, Nagendra, Harini and Puay Yok, Tan (eds.)
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, 2nd edition.
Routledge, pp. 210-224.
ISBN 9780429506758
Grants
Obtained funding at the University of Glasgow:
Volkswagen foundation under the Off-the-beaten-track initiative (£120,000 from a £500 project): Kropotkin's Garden: networking beats competition in the struggle for limited resources. Exploring the ecological significance of natural root grafts in mangrove forests (Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico: 2019-2021). Root Interaction Networks Website
Supervision
- Zhang, Kangyong
Mangrove biomass estimation through remote sensing and machine learning based approaches
Research datasets
2018
Vovides, A. , Berger, U., Grueters, U., Guevara, R., Pommerening, A., Lara-Domínguez, A. L. and Lopez-Portillo, J. (2018) Tree parameters. [Data Collection]
Additional information
PhD, Ecology and Natural Resources Management, Institute of Ecology (INECOL), Mexico
Diploma, Biology. Autonomous Metropolitan University