Forest biodiversity monitoring based on remotely sensed spectral diversity—A review

P Kacic, C Kuenzer - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Forests are essential for global environmental well-being because of their rich provision of
ecosystem services and regulating factors. Global forests are under increasing pressure …

Accounting for forest condition in Europe based on an international statistical standard

J Maes, AG Bruzón, JI Barredo, S Vallecillo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Covering 35% of Europe's land area, forest ecosystems play a crucial role in safeguarding
biodiversity and mitigating climate change. Yet, forest degradation continues to undermine …

rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back

D Rocchini, E Thouverai, M Marcantonio… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem heterogeneity has been widely recognized as a key ecological indicator of
several ecological functions, diversity patterns and change, metapopulation dynamics …

Changes in Ecosystem Service Values in Response to the Planting of Eucalyptus and Acacia Species in the Gilgel Abay Watershed, Northwest Ethiopia

E Debie, M Anteneh - Tropical Conservation Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Plantation of Eucalyptus and Acacia species emerges as a promising alternative in the
tropics in a scenario of high demand for provisional and regulating ecosystem services. The …

Remote sensing methods for the biophysical characterization of protected areas globally: challenges and opportunities

J Martínez-López, B Bertzky, S Willcock… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Protected areas (PAs) are a key strategy to reverse global biodiversity declines, but they are
under increasing pressure from anthropogenic activities and concomitant effects. Thus, the …

Can habitat quality index measured using the invest model explain variations in bird diversity in an urban area?

D Li, W Sun, F Xia, Y Yang, Y Xie - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biodiversity maintenance is a crucial ecosystem service. Due to time limits and data
availability, assessing biodiversity using indicators or models has become a hot topic in …

Characterization of portuguese sown rainfed grasslands using remote sensing and machine learning

TG Morais, M Jongen, C Tufik, NR Rodrigues… - Precision …, 2023 - Springer
Grasslands are crucial ecosystems that support and provide a diverse number of ecosystem
services. Sown biodiverse pastures rich in legumes (SBP) were developed with the main …

Measuring diversity from space: A global view of the free and open source rasterdiv R package under a coding perspective

E Thouverai, M Marcantonio, G Bacaro, DD Re… - Community …, 2021 - Springer
The variation of species diversity over space and time has been widely recognised as a key
challenge in ecology. However, measuring species diversity over large areas might be …

Using satellite NDVI time-series to monitor grazing effects on vegetation productivity and phenology in heterogeneous Mediterranean forests

D Balata, I Gama, T Domingos, V Proença - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The reintroduction of livestock grazing to regulate biomass load is being tested for large-
scale restoration in Mediterranean landscapes affected by rural abandonment. Concurrently …

Geographic context is a key driver of spatial variation of bird species richness during migration

A Echeverría‐Caro, RE Feldman… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Determine whether primary productivity or location (distance to the coast) is more
important to migrating bird habitat selection. Location Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Time …