By Vienna Saccomanno, The Nature Conservancy. In partnership with: The University of California, Los Angeles, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Greater Farallones Association, Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, Hog Island Oyster Co., and California State University Monterey Bay. Kelp forests are found along one-quarter of the planet’s coastlines and are critical to maintaining the diversity and…

By Ines Standfuß, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Animal habitats are not only subject to alterations by regular phenomena like seasonal variations, but are increasingly exposed to human intervention. The most prominent example is likely human-induced climate change that is modifying environmental conditions worldwide. In addition to climate change, which affects entire regions mainly…

By Aurélie Shapiro – Senior Remote Sensing Specialist, WWF-Germany Accompanying the article: “Cloud-native Seascape Mapping of Mozambique’s Quirimbas National Park with Sentinel-2” The coral reefs and associated seascapes of norther Mozambique are some of the most resilient, intact in the world, part of a global portfolio of 50 important reefs. Alas, in the time of…

by Dan Stowell, Queen Mary University of London, UK & Jérôme Sueur, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France Can monitoring sounds help us to meet the world’s biodiversity targets? Nature sound recordings have been collected for over a hundred years, with an exponential increase since the 1950s. Most such recordings were taken…

by Sophia L. Ellis Accompanying the paper: Influence of altitude on tropical marine habitat classification using imagery from fixed‐wing, water‐landing UAV s Tropical marine habitats within a seascape form some of the most productive ecosystems in the coastal zone. They provide important ecosystem services and are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Fine-scale monitoring of these…

By Hannah White This blog accompanies the paper: Quantifying large‐scale ecosystem stability with remote sensing data. Read the full paper here We want ecosystems to function. On top of that, we want them to maintain their functioning at a predictable, consistent level. In the face of global change, however, this may be problematic. We need…