Opportunities and challenges for microbiomics in ecosystem restoration

JM Robinson, R Hodgson, SL Krauss… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Microbiomics is the science of characterizing microbial community structure, function, and
dynamics. It has great potential to advance our understanding of plant–soil–microbe …

How have RPAS helped monitor forests and what can we apply in forest restoration monitoring?

MKSD Sinegalia, GB Santoro, PG Molin - Restoration Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We are currently experiencing an unprecedented moment in forest restoration, where
monitoring activities in recovery areas play a vital role in problem identification and method …

[HTML][HTML] The use of unoccupied aerial systems (UASs) for quantifying shallow coral reef restoration success in Belize

EA Peterson, L Carne, J Balderamos, V Faux… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
There is a growing need for improved techniques to monitor coral reef restoration as these
ecosystems and the goods and services they provide continue to decline under threats of …

Towards complex applications of active remote sensing for ecology and conservation

H Latifi, R Valbuena, CA Silva - Methods in Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Remote sensing (RS) and geospatial sciences already amount to a long history of fostering
research in topics related to ecology. Data and methods have mainly been subject to …

[HTML][HTML] Towards new ecologies of automation: Robotics and the re-engineering of nature

A Lockhart, S Marvin, A While - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate/ecological breakdown and automation are two defining challenges of the current
era, yet there is little research on their conjunctural intersection. Across experimental …

The sound of restored soil: using ecoacoustics to measure soil biodiversity in a temperate forest restoration context

JM Robinson, MF Breed, C Abrahams - Restoration Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forest restoration requires monitoring to assess above‐and belowground communities,
which is challenging due to practical and resource limitations. Ecological acoustic survey …

[图书][B] The Internet of Animals: Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age

D Lupton - 2023 - books.google.com
'The internet is made of cats' is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and
sizes inhabit our digital spaces, including companion animals, wildlife, feral animals and …

[HTML][HTML] Testing drones as a tool for surveying lizards

JM Monks, HP Wills, CD Knox - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
A lack of effective methods for sampling lizards in terrain that is inaccessible to human
observers limits our knowledge of their ecology and conservation needs. Drones are …

A forest gap is not forever: towards an objective standard to determine when a gap is considered closed in temperate forests

D Lu, J Zhu, G Zhang, S Fang, Y Sun, C Zhu… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest gaps create environmental heterogeneity and drive forest dynamics through gap-
phase regeneration. However, it is unclear when a forest gap can be considered closed …

Assessment of the accuracy of counting large ungulate species (red deer Cervus elaphus) with UAV‐mounted thermal infrared cameras during night flights

F Zabel, MA Findlay, PJC White - Wildlife Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in wildlife surveying, including
estimation of population densities. It is essential that we evaluate and test new survey …