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Improve Long-Term Biodiversity Management and Monitoring on Certified Oil Palm Plantations in Colombia by Centralizing Efforts at the Sector Level

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2019
Commodity crop expansion remains a leading driver of deforestation and defaunation in the tropics. Voluntary certification standards are the primary mechanism for making commodity production more sustainable and rely on the High Conservation Value (HCV ...
Paul R. Furumo, Edgar I. Barrera-Gonzalez, Juan C. Espinosa, Gustavo A. Gómez-Zuluaga, T. Mitchell Aide   +4 more
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From Data to Decision: Leveraging Essential Variables in Standardizing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Monitoring and Reporting

Conservation Letters
Fragmented systems for monitoring and assessing biodiversity and ecosystem services limit the ability to track progress at local and national scales in international multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).
HyeJin Kim, Balint Czúcz, Patricia Balvanera, Simon Ferrier, Michael J. Gill, Frank E. Muller‐Karger, Jillian Campbell, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, Matthew Child, Gary N. Geller, Henrique M. Pereira, Laetitia M. Navarro   +11 more
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Scale dependence in remotely sensed biodiversity: Leveraging continental‐scale imaging spectroscopy from the National Ecological Observatory Network

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Imaging spectroscopy enables large‐scale biodiversity assessment, yet spectral diversity metrics are scale dependent. Across 15 NEON ecosystems, we find that spectral richness increases sub‐linearly from 3600 m2 to 4 km2, whereas spectral divergence shows weak or inconsistent scaling with area, underscoring the importance of scale‐aware interpretation ...
Meghan T. Hayden, Matthew W. Rossi, Laura E. Dee, Kyle Kovach, Cibele H. Amaral, Jacob Nesslage, Madeline Slimp, Rachel S. Meyer, E. Natasha Stavros   +8 more
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Scalable low‐cost seabed landers: the missing link for sustained, integrated, long‐term observations in dynamic shallow seas

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Seabed landers, when equipped with a range of biotic and abiotic sensors, offer a non‐invasive and cost‐effective solution for ecosystem‐scale monitoring of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) in dynamic shallow seas.
Arienne Calonge, Roeland Develter, Carlota Muñiz, Clea Parcerisas, Jan Reubens, Wieter Boone, Klaas Deneudt, Elisabeth Debusschere   +7 more
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Towards implementing workflows for essential biodiversity variables at a European scaleZenodo

Global Ecology and Conservation
Biodiversity is declining, prompting new multilateral treaties and environmental legislation. To track the progress of these efforts, a comprehensive monitoring network is essential.
Maria Lumbierres, Marija Milanović, Pedro Beja, Aletta Bonn, Tom D. Breeze, Lluís Brotons, Néstor Fernández, Jessica Junker, Camino Liquete, Anne Lyche Solheim, Alejandra Morán Ordóñez, Francisco Moreira, Joana Santana, Stacy Shinneman, Bruno Smets, Henrique M. Pereira, Jose W. Valdez, Roy H.A. van Grunsven, W. Daniel Kissling   +18 more
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Biodiversity Monitoring in Changing Tropical Forests: A Review of Approaches and New Opportunities

Remote Sensing, 2017
Tropical forests host at least two-thirds of the world’s flora and fauna diversity and store 25% of the terrestrial above and belowground carbon. However, biodiversity decline due to deforestation and forest degradation of tropical forest is increasing ...
Kalkidan Ayele Mulatu, Brice Mora, Lammert Kooistra, Martin Herold   +3 more
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Ground‐based robotic remote sensing for standardized biodiversity monitoring in coastal habitats

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Illustrated workflow of the proposed citizen‐to‐robot monitoring pipeline: (i) expert‐validated citizen observations are translated into AI models, (ii) deployed on a ground‐based robotic platform for proximal sensing of coastal dune habitats, (iii) enabling standardized detection of ecological targets (e.g., Pancratium maritimum & Brithys crini), and (
Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Simonetta Bagella, Micaela del Valle Rasino, Maria Laura Carranza, Manolo Garabini, Franco Angelini   +5 more
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Identifying Biodiversity-Based Indicators for Regulating Ecosystem Services in Constructed Wetlands

Applied Sciences
Constructed wetlands (CWs) are nature-based solutions that integrate ecological processes for water purification, climate regulation, and biodiversity enhancement.
Marvin John Uy, Miguel Enrico Robles, Yugyeong Oh, Lee-Hyung Kim   +3 more
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Remotely Sensed Variables of Ecosystem Functioning Support Robust Predictions of Abundance Patterns for Rare Species

Remote Sensing, 2019
Global environmental changes are affecting both the distribution and abundance of species at an unprecedented rate. To assess these effects, species distribution models (SDMs) have been greatly developed over the last decades, while species abundance ...
Salvador Arenas-Castro, Adrián Regos, João F. Gonçalves, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, João Honrado   +4 more
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A Comparison of Mobile Laser Scanning Data Acquisition Methods in Closed Forest, Open Woodland and Sub‐Alpine Woodland Ecosystems

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates that the mobile laser scanning (MLS) sampling density required to reliably characterise vegetation structure increases with a site's structural complexity. Applying a five‐level acquisition framework across open woodland, closed forest and sub‐alpine woodland ecosystems, we found that longer scanning paths increased the ...
Johann Tiede, Karin Reinke, Trung H. Nguyen, Simon Jones   +3 more
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