Julie A. Fortin School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Beginning over a hundred years ago, the Canadian government hired land surveyors to map out the mountains of western Canada. These surveyors used unique photo-topographic methods to create topographic maps . As a byproduct of their work, there are…
Evelyn Piña‐Covarrubias, Andrew P. Hill, Peter Prince, Jake L. Snaddon, Alex Rogers, C. Patrick Doncaster, 2018, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.97 The rapid evolution in miniaturisation, power efficiency and affordability of acoustic sensors, combined with new innovations in smart capability, are vastly expanding opportunities in ground‐level monitoring for wildlife conservation at a regional scale,…
Alison Beresford RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Every autumn, millions of Afro-palearctic migratory birds make the long journey from their breeding grounds in Europe to wintering grounds in sub-Saharan Africa, returning north again in the spring. Over the last 50 years, the European breeding populations of many of these species have…
Pen-Yuan Hsing and Philip Stephens, Conservation Ecology Group, Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom DH1 3LE (@MammalWeb) This blog post is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. You can read the full research paper here. To conserve biodiversity effectively, we need to know where and in what abundance it occurs. Breeding bird…
Caitlin Jacobs Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA Camera traps are a powerful research tool that is becoming increasingly important in the field of wildlife biology. Researchers all over the world use camera traps to assess a wide range of ecological questions, such as wildlife distribution, composition, abundance, density, population trends…
From 7–11 May, the GeoHab community met in Santa Barbara, California, for its annual conference. GeoHab, which stands for Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping, is an international and multidisciplinary community of marine scientists that includes acousticians, biologists, ecologists, geologists, oceanographers, and spatial scientists, to name a few. One of the objectives of GeoHab is…
Over the past 15 years, there has been great effort to inspire and engage women and girls in science. However, according to a study conducted in 14 countries, the probability of women graduating with a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree and PhD in science-related field are 18%, 8% and 2% respectively, while those percentages for male…
Henrike Schulte to Bühne Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK In the 21st century, ecologists and conservation scientists have embraced satellite imagery as a valuable tool for mapping and monitoring ecosystems, species and threats to biodiversity. Multispectral and radar satellite data in particular have become mainstream sources of ecological data. These two…
Call for content for Special Issue Coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves, salt marshes, corals and seagrasses, provide substantial benefits to humanity, yet are under ever-increasing threat of degradation and disappearance from a combination of land use and climate change (such as sea level rise, drought and storm intensity). With about 10% of the global human population living in…
Harini Nagendra Azim Premji University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India In the December issue of Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, we have a special section dedicated to research on protected areas. This section consists of three excellent papers located in varied geographic contexts from West Africa to South America and Canada. They also cover a…
Sabine Pfeffer Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden Researchers, conservationists and stakeholders all over the world are confronted with an important question: What is a reliable, time and cost efficient method to monitor changing wildlife communities? Which census method is most suitable for reliable population estimates? Is there one method that would work…
Stephen Chignell Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Wetlands and riparian areas are important for an array of landscape functions, including flow regulation, nutrient cycling, and wildlife habitat. However, human activities are resulting in considerable losses of wetlands worldwide, which is of particular concern in semi-arid and arid landscapes like the Western United…
