A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily
focused on small scales. We review the current theory and identify six expectations for scale …

Biodiversity monitoring is an almost inconceivable challenge at the scale of the entire Earth.
The current (and soon to be flown) generation of spaceborne and airborne optical sensors …

Biodiversity is essential to healthy ecosystem function, influencing productivity and
resilience to disturbance. Biodiversity loss endangers essential ecosystem services and …

Monitoring the rapid and extensive changes in plant species distributions occurring
worldwide requires large-scale, continuous and repeated biodiversity assessments. Imaging …

Aim The spectral variability hypothesis (SVH) suggests a link between spectral variation and
plant biodiversity. The underlying assumptions are that higher spectral variation in canopy …

Observing functional diversity continuously in time and space using satellite imagery forms
the basis for studying impact, interactions, and feedback of environmental change …

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 …

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 …

Twenty years ago, the Spectral Variation Hypothesis (SVH) was formulated as a means to
link between different aspects of biodiversity and spatial patterns of spectral data (eg …

Forest biomass monitoring is at the core of the research agenda due to the critical
importance of forest dynamics in the carbon cycle. However, forest biomass is never directly …