Methods and uncertainties in bioclimatic envelope modelling under climate change

RK Heikkinen, M Luoto, MB Araújo… - Progress in …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Potential impacts of projected climate change on biodiversity are often assessed using
single-species bioclimatic 'envelope'models. Such models are a special case of species …

Remote sensing of ecosystem health: opportunities, challenges, and future perspectives

Z Li, D Xu, X Guo - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
Maintaining a healthy ecosystem is essential for maximizing sustainable ecological services
of the best quality to human beings. Ecological and conservation research has provided a …

Measuring and modelling biodiversity from space

TW Gillespie, GM Foody, D Rocchini… - Progress in physical …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The Earth is undergoing an accelerated rate of native ecosystem conversion and
degradation and there is increased interest in measuring and modelling biodiversity from …

The ecology of visual landscapes: Exploring the conceptual common ground of visual and ecological landscape indicators

G Fry, MS Tveit, Å Ode, MD Velarde - Ecological indicators, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper explores the conceptual common ground between visual and ecological
landscape indicators. Indicators can be used to summarise complex information about …

Effects of habitat cover, landscape structure and spatial variables on the abundance of birds in an agricultural–forest mosaic

RK Heikkinen, M Luoto, R Virkkala… - Journal of Applied …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Numerical studies of the relationship between birds and their habitat are
important because they provide understanding of the impacts of natural and human factors …

Map** vegetation in a heterogeneous mountain rangeland using Landsat data: an alternative method to define and classify land-cover units

AM Cingolani, D Renison, MR Zak… - Remote sensing of …, 2004 - Elsevier
Three major problems are faced when map** natural vegetation with mid-resolution
satellite images using conventional supervised classification techniques: defining the …

Different responses of plants and herbivore insects to a gradient of vegetation height: an indicator of the vertebrate grazing intensity and successional age

J Pöyry, M Luoto, J Paukkunen, J Pykälä… - Oikos, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical studies have suggested that species richness of grassland insects usually
decreases under grazing management. By contrast, grazing has been shown to increase the …

Environmental and human factors influencing rare plant local occurrence, extinction and persistence: a 115‐year study in the Mediterranean region

S Lavergne, W Thuiller, J Molina… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Assessing whether environmental and human factors influenced the spatial distribution
and the dynamics of regionally rare plant species since the late nineteenth century, and …

Topographically controlled soil moisture is the primary driver of local vegetation patterns across a lowland region

JE Moeslund, L Arge, PK Bøcher, T Dalgaard… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Topography is recognized as an important factor in controlling plant distribution and diversity
patterns, but its scale dependence and the underlying mechanisms by which it operates are …

Restoration of butterfly and moth communities in semi‐natural grasslands by cattle grazing

J Pöyry, S Lindgren, J Salminen… - Ecological …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of restorative grazing on species composition and community structure of
butterflies and moths were studied in mesic semi‐natural grasslands differing in their …