Hyperspectral sensors enable the study of the chemical properties of scene materials
remotely for the purpose of identification, detection, and chemical composition analysis of …

Assessing the level of diversity in plant communities from field‐based data is difficult for a
number of practical reasons:(1) establishing the number of sampling units to be investigated …

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

Two prominent limitations of species distribution models (SDM s) are spatial biases in
existing occurrence data and a lack of spatially explicit predictor variables to fully capture …

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 …

There is a growing need for operational biodiversity mapping methods to quantify and to
assess the impact of climate change, habitat alteration, and human activity on ecosystem …

Biodiversity includes multiscalar and multitemporal structures and processes, with different
levels of functional organization, from genetic to ecosystemic levels. One of the mostly used …

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 …

Many geospatial tools have been advocated in spatial ecology to estimate biodiversity and
its changes over space and time. Such information is essential in designing effective …

Human activities exert stress on and create disturbances to ecosystems, decreasing their
diversity, resilience and ultimately the health of ecosystems and their vegetation. In …