Remote sensing of terrestrial plant biodiversity

R Wang, JA Gamon - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is essential to healthy ecosystem function, influencing productivity and
resilience to disturbance. Biodiversity loss endangers essential ecosystem services and …

Mapping tree species diversity in temperate montane forests using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery and topography data

X Liu, J Frey, C Munteanu, N Still, B Koch - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Detailed information on spatial patterns of tree species diversity (TSD) is essential for
biodiversity assessment, forest disturbance monitoring, and the management and …

Plant beta-diversity across biomes captured by imaging spectroscopy

AK Schweiger, E Laliberté - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Monitoring the rapid and extensive changes in plant species distributions occurring
worldwide requires large-scale, continuous and repeated biodiversity assessments. Imaging …

Factors influencing the occurrence and distribution of microplastics in coastal sediments: from source to sink

X Sun, T Wang, B Chen, AM Booth, S Liu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution is attracting growing global attention, but little is known about the
factors influencing MP occurrence and distributions in marine sediments. Here, MPs were …

Spatial resolution, spectral metrics and biomass are key aspects in estimating plant species richness from spectral diversity in species‐rich grasslands

C Rossi, M Kneubühler, M Schütz… - Remote Sensing in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing evidence suggests that remotely sensed spectral diversity is linked to plant
species richness. However, a conflicting spectral diversity–biodiversity relationship in …

Partitioning plant spectral diversity into alpha and beta components

E Laliberté, AK Schweiger, P Legendre - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant spectral diversity–how plants differentially interact with solar radiation–is an integrator
of plant chemical, structural, and taxonomic diversity that can be remotely sensed. We …

[HTML][HTML] Inferring plant functional diversity from space: the potential of Sentinel-2

X Ma, MD Mahecha, M Migliavacca… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Plant functional diversity (FD) is an important component of biodiversity that characterizes
the variability of functional traits within a community, landscape, or even large spatial scales …

[HTML][HTML] Explaining discrepancies between spectral and in-situ plant diversity in multispectral satellite earth observation

LT Hauser, J Timmermans, N van der Windt… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In light of the ongoing global biodiversity crisis, the urge to monitor and map terrestrial plant
biodiversity at large spatial extents has spurred research on adequate quantitative methods …

The relationship between spectral and plant diversity: Disentangling the influence of metrics and habitat types at the landscape scale

M Perrone, M Di Febbraro, L Conti, J Divíšek… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiversity monitoring is crucial for ecosystem conservation, but ground data collection is
limited by cost, time, and scale. Remote sensing is a convenient approach providing …

Estimating tree species diversity from space in an alpine conifer forest: The Rao's Q diversity index meets the spectral variation hypothesis

M Torresani, D Rocchini, R Sonnenschein… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Forests cover about 30% of the Earth surface, they are among the most biodiverse terrestrial
ecosystems and represent the bulk of many ecological processes and services. The …