Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation

J Cavender-Bares, FD Schneider, MJ Santos… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Remote sensing has transformed the monitoring of life on Earth by revealing spatial and
temporal dimensions of biological diversity through structural, compositional and functional …

Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

S Hoban, FI Archer, LD Bertola, JG Bragg… - Biological …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space

AK Skidmore, NC Coops, E Neinavaz, A Ali… - Nature ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Monitoring global biodiversity from space through remotely sensing geospatial patterns has
high potential to add to our knowledge acquired by field observation. Although a framework …

TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access

J Kattge, G Bönisch, S Díaz, S Lavorel… - Global change …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

To harness traits for ecology, let's abandon 'functionality'

RP Streit, DR Bellwood - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023‏ - cell.com
Traits are measurable features of organisms. Functional traits aspire to more. They quantify
an organism's ecology and, ultimately, predict ecosystem functions based on local …

Global maps of soil temperature

JJ Lembrechts, J van den Hoogen, J Aalto… - Global change …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from
estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic …

Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity

JF Brodie, J Mohd-Azlan, C Chen, OR Wearn… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Abstract The United Nations recently agreed to major expansions of global protected areas
(PAs) to slow biodiversity declines. However, although reserves often reduce habitat loss …

Digitization and the future of natural history collections

BP Hedrick, JM Heberling, EK Meineke, KG Turner… - …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Natural history collections (NHCs) are the foundation of historical baselines for assessing
anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Along these lines, the online mobilization of …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the relation between species traits and extinction risk

F Chichorro, A Juslén, P Cardoso - Biological Conservation, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Biodiversity is shrinking rapidly, and despite our efforts only a small part of it has been
assessed for extinction risk. Identifying the traits that make species vulnerable might help us …

Optimal input features for tree species classification in Central Europe based on multi-temporal Sentinel-2 data

M Immitzer, M Neuwirth, S Böck, H Brenner, F Vuolo… - Remote Sensing, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Detailed knowledge about tree species composition is of great importance for forest
management. The two identical European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2 (S2) satellites …