Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: recent advances and open challenges

D Rocchini, N Balkenhol, GA Carter, GM Foody… - Ecological …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Environmental heterogeneity is considered to be one of the main factors associated with
biodiversity given that areas with highly heterogeneous environments can host more …

Biodiversity: function and assessment in agricultural areas: a review

B Clergue, B Amiaud, F Pervanchon… - Sustainable …, 2009‏ - Springer
Biodiversity has become a central concept in agronomical research since the Rio de Janeiro
summit in 1992. Agricultural areas include a unique biological diversity which is the basis of …

Choosing and using diversity indices: insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories

EK Morris, T Caruso, F Buscot, M Fischer… - Ecology and …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity, a multidimensional property of natural systems, is difficult to quantify partly
because of the multitude of indices proposed for this purpose. Indices aim to describe …

Automatic assessment of public open spaces using street view imagery

S Chen, F Biljecki - Cities, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Public open space (POS) is essential to urban areas. Assessing them usually requires
tedious approaches such as fieldwork and manual processes. Street View Imagery (SVI) …

[کتاب][B] Measuring biological diversity

AE Magurran - 2013‏ - books.google.com
This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure
biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to …

Land use/land cover change and the effects on ecosystem services in the Hengduan Mountain region, China

Y Wang, E Dai, L Yin, L Ma - Ecosystem Services, 2018‏ - Elsevier
As one of the most important ecological functional area in China, the Hengduan Mountain
region has experienced dramatic land use/land cover changes (LUCC) over the past 20 …

[HTML][HTML] Related and unrelated variety as regional drivers of enterprise productivity and innovation: A multilevel study

J Aarstad, OA Kvitastein, SE Jakobsen - Research Policy, 2016‏ - Elsevier
We conduct multilevel analyses of Norwegian data and find that related industrial variety is a
positive regional driver of enterprise innovation. Unrelated variety is a negative regional …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing the appetite of the marine aquarium fish trade: the volume and biodiversity of fish imported into the United States

AL Rhyne, MF Tlusty, PJ Schofield, LES Kaufman… - PloS one, 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
The aquarium trade and other wildlife consumers are at a crossroads forced by threats from
global climate change and other anthropogenic stressors that have weakened coastal …