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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 … Continue reading Stability from space: Scaling up field plot theory to investigate large scale stability

By Francisco Javier Ancin-Murguzur This blog accompanies the paper: Drones as a tool to monitor human impacts and vegetation changes in parks and protected areas. Read the full paper here Monitoring trails is an essential part of the conservation work in protected areas to assess how visitors affect the trails and their surroundings. When we … Continue reading Drones as a tool to monitor human impacts and vegetation changes in parks and protected areas

By Tim O'Brien This blog is an accompaniment to the paper: Camera trapping reveals trends in forest duiker populations in African National Parks. Read the full paper here Presence-absence surveys (more properly detection-nondetection surveys) and occupancy surveys, are often used as indicators of the health of wildlife population. Occupancy surveys use a replicated sampling design where … Continue reading From Presence-Absence to Abundance: Application of the Occupancy Framework to Estimate Abundance

by Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Species are often involved in complex interactions with other species, which can affect their occurrence, abundance, feeding habits and disease transmission. Observing and studying species interactions can be difficult. To circumvent this problem, ecologists increasingly rely on remote devices such as camera traps. In a recent study … Continue reading Studying species interactions using remote camera traps

Rasmus Erlandsson Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Sweden   Some ideas stick in your mind until you do something about them, and in 2011 an idea popped up in my head when I was chatting with a friend on the metro on my way home from university: Are colour infrared aerial photos, one of the … Continue reading Don’t Be Afraid of Wasting Time and Taking Risks- Finding New Applications for Aerial Photos

Merry Crowson Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK   “The world is one big data problem.” (Andrew McAfee) There is a lot of excitement in the scientific community surrounding the potential of big data – that is, the recent exponential increase in the amount and variety of data, as well as the … Continue reading Mapping peat swamp forest from space – will data fusion improve the accuracy of my land cover map?