[HTML][HTML] A systematic review on the integration of remote sensing and GIS to forest and grassland ecosystem health attributes, indicators, and measures

I Soubry, T Doan, T Chu, X Guo - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
It is important to protect forest and grassland ecosystems because they are ecologically rich
and provide numerous ecosystem services. Upscaling monitoring from local to global scale …

Protected areas in boreal Canada: a baseline and considerations for the continued development of a representative and effective reserve network

ME Andrew, MA Wulder, JA Cardille - Environmental Reviews, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
Boreal forests maintain regionally important biodiversity and globally important ecosystem
services, such as carbon storage and freshwater resources. Many boreal systems have …

Remote sensing tools for monitoring forests and tracking their dynamics

R Massey, LT Berner, AC Foster, SJ Goetz… - Boreal forests in the face …, 2023 - Springer
Remote sensing augments field data and facilitates foresight required for forest
management by providing spatial and temporal observations of forest characteristics at …

Assessing the anticipated growth response of northern conifer populations to a warming climate

JH Pedlar, DW McKenney - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The growth response of trees to ongoing climate change has important implications for
future forest dynamics, accurate carbon accounting, and sustainable forest management …

[HTML][HTML] Map** forest health using spectral and textural information extracted from SPOT-5 satellite images

J Meng, S Li, W Wang, Q Liu, S **e, W Ma - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Forest health is an important variable that we need to monitor for forest management
decision making. However, forest health is difficult to assess and monitor based merely on …

Projections of future forest age class structure under the influence of fire and harvesting: implications for forest management in the boreal forest of eastern Canada

Y Bergeron… - … Journal of Forest …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In northeastern Canadian boreal forests, a coarse-filter approach was adopted to provide
sustainable ecosystem services in order to maintain a balance between biodiversity …

Satellite time series and Google Earth Engine democratize the process of forest-recovery monitoring over large areas

JN Hird, J Kariyeva, GJ McDermid - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Contemporary forest-health initiatives require technologies and workflows that can monitor
forest degradation and recovery simply and efficiently over large areas. Spectral recovery …

Predicting species diversity in agricultural environments using Landsat TM imagery

DC Duro, J Girard, DJ King, L Fahrig, S Mitchell… - Remote Sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Maps based on classified Earth observation (EO) imagery have been used to model
biodiversity, but errors associated with the classification process itself and the resulting …

Remotely-sensed productivity clusters capture global biodiversity patterns

NC Coops, SP Kearney, DK Bolton, VC Radeloff - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Ecological regionalisations delineate areas of similar environmental conditions, ecological
processes, and biotic communities, and provide a basis for systematic conservation …

Conservation implications of the evolutionary history and genetic diversity hotspots of the snowshoe hare

E Cheng, KE Hodges, J Melo‐Ferreira… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
With climate warming, the ranges of many boreal species are expected to shift northward
and to fragment in southern peripheral ranges. To understand the conservation implications …