A severe hail storm in June 2014 provided a valuable opportunity to study an infrequent but important source of mortality in grassland breeding birds, and a rare chance to demonstrate how remotely sensed weather data can be used to estimate hail-related avian mortality.
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Over the past few decades, phenology has been a focal point of monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem changes under climate change, species invasion, and other environmental stresses. It has long been recognized that the closely coupled relationships exist between phenology of organisms and corresponding meteorological conditions, but the detailed patterns tied to genotypic complexity (in addition to climatic variation) within and among species are still poorly understood.
Greg Asner Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science. A remote region of the South China Sea harbors an archipelago of atolls, reefs and a few islands called the ‘Spratly Islands’. Zoomed out, the Spratlys seem to float in suspension, like a dim stellar constellation of underwhelming dots, offering little to the casual Google … Continue reading From Sea to Space: Focusing on Coral Reefs in the Spratly Islands
In this post, authors Hernán Dieguez and José M. Paruelo describe their recent paper, published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. Protected areas are the cornerstone of in situ global conservation efforts and are intended to both preserve biodiversity and ensure the provision of multiple ecosystem services. Furthermore, protected areas can be used to … Continue reading Assessing climate and ecosystem function change in South American protected areas during the last three decades
Martin Wegmann, Department of Remote Sensing, Ecology and Conservation Research, University of Würzburg, Germany. Over recent decades remote sensing (RS) has made valuable contributions to ecology and conservation. However, despite its clear value, the potential of RS has not yet been fully realized, and training in the tools and applications for RS is limited. While … Continue reading Remote Sensing Training in Ecology and Conservation – challenges and potential
Author Ian Paynter describes how a new wave of terrestrial lidar scanners, optimized for rapid scanning and portability, enable and improve observations of structure across a range of important ecosystems. Here at the School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, we study the environment by scanning it with lasers. Our laser scanning instruments utilize light detection … Continue reading Observing ecosystems with lightweight, rapid-scanning terrestrial lidar scanners
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