Publications

Diandra Duengen, Elke Burkhardt, Ahmed El-Gabbas (2022). Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) distribution modeling on their Nordic and Barents Seas feeding grounds. Marine Mammal Science 38(4):1583-1608.

Ahmed El-Gabbas, Ilse Van Opzeeland, Elke Burkhardt, Olaf Boebel (2021). Year-Round Habitat Suitability of Baleen Whales in the Southern Ocean. Figshare (dataset).

Ahmed El-Gabbas, Ilse Van Opzeeland, Elke Burkhardt, Olaf Boebel (2021). Static species distribution models in the marine realm: the case of baleen whales in the Southern Ocean. Diversity and Distributions (2021) 27(8):1536-1552.

Elena Schall, Karolin Thomisch, Olaf Boebel, Gabriele Gerlach, Sari Mangia Woods, Ahmed El-Gabbas, Ilse Van Opzeeland (2021). Multi-year presence of humpback whales in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean but not during El Niño. Nature Communications Biology 4, Article number: 790.

Ahmed El-Gabbas, Ilse Van Opzeeland, Elke Burkhardt, Olaf Boebel (2021). Dynamic species distribution models in the marine realm: predicting year-round habitat suitability of baleen whales in the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science (2021) 8.

Ahmed El-Gabbas, Francis Gilbert, Carsten F. Dormann (2020). Spatial conservation prioritisation in data-poor countries: a quantitative sensitivity analysis using multiple taxa. BMC Ecology (2020)  —   20, 35.

Ahmed El-Gabbas, Ilse Van Opzeeland, Elke Burkhardt, Olaf Boebel (2019). Modelling habitat suitability of whales in the Southern Ocean. World Marine Mammals Conference (WMMC), Barcelona, Spain. December 9-12, 2019.

Diandra Duengen, Ahmed El-Gabbas, Elke Burkhardt (2019). Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) distribution modelling in the Nordic Seas & adjacent waters. World Marine Mammals Conference (WMMC), Barcelona, Spain. December 9-12, 2019.

Ahmed El-Gabbas, Carsten F. Dormann (2018). Wrong, but useful: regional species distribution models may not be improved by range-wide data under biased sampling. Ecology and Evolution (2018)  —  8(4): 2196–2206.

Ahmed El-Gabbas (2018). Reliability of species distribution modelling for wildlife conservation in developing countries. Dr. rer. nat. thesis, University of Freiburg, Germany.