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Double down on remote sensing for biodiversity estimation : a biological mindset

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Rocchini, Duccio ; Torresani, Michele ; Beierkuhnlein, Carl ; Feoli, Enrico ; Foody, Giles M. ; Lenoir, Jonathan ; Malavasi, Marco ; Moudrý, Vítězslav ; Šímová, Petra ; Ricotta, Carlo:
Double down on remote sensing for biodiversity estimation : a biological mindset.
In: Community Ecology. (October 2022) .
ISSN 1588-2756
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42974-022-00113-7

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In the light of unprecedented planetary changes in biodiversity, real-time and accurate ecosystem and biodiversity assessments are becoming increasingly essential for informing policy and sustainable development. Biodiversity monitoring is a challenge, especially for large areas such as entire continents. Nowadays, spaceborne and airborne sensors provide information that incorporate wavelengths that cannot be seen nor imagined with the human eye. This is also now accomplished at unprecedented spatial resolutions, defined by the pixel size of images, achieving less than a meter for some satellite images and just millimeters for airborne imagery. Thanks to different modeling techniques, it is now possible to study functional diversity changes over different spatial and temporal scales. At the heart of this unifying framework are the “spectral species”—sets of pixels with a similar spectral signal—and their variability over space. The aim of this paper is to summarize the power of remote sensing for directly estimating plant species diversity, particularly focusing on the spectral species concept.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: Beta-diversity; Biodiversity; Earth observation; Ecological informatics; Grain; Plant optical types; Remote sensing; Satellite imagery
Institutions of the University: Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Chair Biogeography
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Chair Biogeography > Chair Biogeography - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carl Beierkuhnlein
Research Institutions
Research Institutions > Research Centres
Research Institutions > Research Centres > Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research- BayCEER
Graduate Schools
Graduate Schools > Elite Network Bavaria
Graduate Schools > Elite Network Bavaria > Global Change Ecology
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 500 Science > 550 Earth sciences, geology
500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany)
Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2022 05:04
Last Modified: 13 Oct 2022 05:04
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/72410