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

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770

Research interests

Morphological plasticity

Adaptive responses to environmental change

Root interaction networks

Restoration Ecology

Mangrove Ecology

Publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2016 | 2014 | 2011
Number of items: 25.

2024

Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Basyuni, Mohammad, Bimantara, Yunta, Slamet, Bejo, Sulistiyono, Nurdin and Balke, Thorsten ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Schwarz, Christian and Balke, Thorsten ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Kosová, E., James, K., Vovides, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, MacArthur, M. and Nicholson, P. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Peters, John, Metcalfe, Daniel, Roberts, Kenny and Naylor, Larissa A. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Ladd, Cai J.T. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069 and Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Schrewe, Falk, Balke, Thorsten ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Vovides, Alejandra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Schwarz, Christian, Chmura, Gail L., Ladd, Cai ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Berger, Uta and Balke, Thorsten ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Kippen, Hugh, MacArthur, M., Hansom, James D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4443-2089, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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)

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Number of items: 25.

Articles

Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Basyuni, Mohammad, Bimantara, Yunta, Slamet, Bejo, Sulistiyono, Nurdin and Balke, Thorsten ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Schwarz, Christian and Balke, Thorsten ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Kosová, E., James, K., Vovides, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, MacArthur, M. and Nicholson, P. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Peters, John, Metcalfe, Daniel, Roberts, Kenny and Naylor, Larissa A. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Ladd, Cai J.T. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069 and Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Schrewe, Falk, Balke, Thorsten ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-5069, Vovides, Alejandra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Schwarz, Christian, Chmura, Gail L., Ladd, Cai ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3293-5770, Berger, Uta and Balke, Thorsten ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-2674, Kippen, Hugh, MacArthur, M., Hansom, James D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4443-2089, Vovides, Alejandra G. ORCID logoORCID: 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

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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

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Supervision

  • Zhang, Kangyong
    Mangrove biomass estimation through remote sensing and machine learning based approaches

Research datasets

Jump to: 2018
Number of items: 1.

2018

Vovides, A. , Berger, U., Grueters, U., Guevara, R., Pommerening, A., Lara-Domínguez, A. L. and Lopez-Portillo, J. (2018) Tree parameters. [Data Collection]

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Additional information

PhD, Ecology and Natural Resources Management, Institute of Ecology (INECOL), Mexico

Diploma, Biology. Autonomous Metropolitan University 


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