Lidar remote sensing for ecosystem studies: Lidar, an emerging remote sensing technology that directly measures the three-dimensional distribution of plant canopies …

MA Lefsky, WB Cohen, GG Parker, DJ Harding - BioScience, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Articles face is repeatedly measured along a transect, the result is an outline of both the
ground surface and any vegetation obscuring it. Even in areas with high vegetation cover …

Mapping spatial pattern in biodiversity for regional conservation planning: where to from here?

S Ferrier - Systematic biology, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Vast gaps in available information on the spatial distribution of biodiversity pose a major
challenge for regional conservation planning in many parts of the world. This problem is …

Geographical sampling bias and its implications for conservation priorities in Africa

S Reddy, LM Dávalos - Journal of Biogeography, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To design and apply statistical tests for measuring sampling bias in the raw data used to
the determine priority areas for conservation, and to discuss their impact on conservation …

Gap analysis: concepts, methods, and recent results

MD Jennings - Landscape ecology, 2000 - Springer
Rapid progress is being made in the conceptual, technical, and organizational requirements
for generating synoptic multi-scale views of the earth's surface and its biological content …

[图书][B] Remote sensing for ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques

N Horning, JA Robinson, EJ Sterling, W Turner… - 2010 - books.google.com
The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a
discipline concerned with mapping and managing biodiversity on a global scale. Remote …

Floristic composition across a climatic gradient in a neotropical lowland forest

CR Pyke, R Condit, S Aguilar… - Journal of vegetation …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
This study deals with the floristic composition of lowland tropical forest in the watershed of
the Panama Canal. The floristic composition of large trees in 54 forest plots was analysed …

Integrating Landsat TM and SRTM-DEM derived variables with decision trees for habitat classification and change detection in complex neotropical environments

SE Sesnie, PE Gessler, B Finegan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2008 - Elsevier
Remotely sensed images and processing techniques are a primary tool for mapping
changes in tropical forest types important to biodiversity and environmental assessment …

Developing a spatial framework of common ecological regions for the conterminous United States

G McMahon, SM Gregonis, SW Waltman… - Environmental …, 2001 - Springer
In 1996, nine federal agencies with mandates to inventory and manage the nation's land,
water, and biological resources signed a memorandum of understanding entitled …

Preserving biodiversity: challenges for planners

T Beatley - Journal of the American Planning Association, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Lyn Sedlak-Forďs The Great Return reflects both the beauty of salmon and their
plight in finding it increasingly difficult to return to their spawning grounds each year …

Effects of thematic resolution on landscape pattern analysis

A Buyantuyev, J Wu - Landscape Ecology, 2007 - Springer
The thematic resolution of mapped data determines the amount of detail of geospatial
information, and influences various aspects of landscape classification and the relevance of …