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 … Continue reading Plains to Peaks: Mapping wetlands and riparian areas in the Rocky Mountains
See below for German, Spanish, French and Portuguese versions The Zoological Society of London is looking for active researchers to join the Editorial Board of Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation is a fully open access journal that aims to provide a forum for rapid, peer-reviewed publication of novel, … Continue reading Open Call for Associate Editors
Marcus Rowcliffe Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom Biodiversity monitoring makes a central scientific contribution to conservation management and environmental policy. Without it, we have an impaired evidence-base for decision-making in areas such as species management, and forest and agriculture policy. Yet for the world’s terrestrial mammals, traditional … Continue reading Special Issue: Key frontiers in camera trapping research
What information do you need to make a good decision? It might seem like an obvious question, but given the increasing array of remote data sources, it can be hard to pick one. On the one hand, you don’t want to make the wrong decision based on incomplete data, but working with very high resolution … Continue reading How much data is enough? Investigating how spatial data resolution impacts conservation decision making
In 2014 we launched Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, an open-access journal to support communication and collaboration among experts in remote sensing, ecology and conservation science. As we approach our second full year of publication, we thought we would reflect on how the journal has done to date, and take a look at what … Continue reading Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation – three years on…
By Henrike SchulteTobuhne Let’s go on a quick excursion to the West African savannah! Simply open Google Earth or Google maps (make sure you have satellite view enabled), and gradually zoom in on the part of West Africa where Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger meet. You’ll spot a vaguely sine-wave shape of green standing out from … Continue reading How to map 50,000 km2 of savannah without leaving your office
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