Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study
Assessing biodiversity from field-based data is difficult for a number of practical reasons: (i) establishing the total number of sampling units to be investigated and the sampling design (e.g. systematic, random, stratified) can be difficult; (ii) the choice of the sampling design can affect the re...
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| author | Rocchini, Duccio Bacaro, Giovanni Chirici, Gherado Da Re, Daniele Feilhauer, Hannes Foody, Giles M. Galluzzi, Marta Garzon-Lopez, Carol X. Gillespie, Thomas W. He, Kate S. Lenoir, Jonathan Marcantonio, Matteo Nagendra, Harini Ricotta, Carlo Rommel, Edvinas Schmidtlein, Sebastian Skidmore, Andrew K. Van de Kerchove, Ruben Wegmann, Martin Rugani, Benedetto |
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| description | Assessing biodiversity from field-based data is difficult for a number of practical reasons: (i) establishing the total number of sampling units to be investigated and the sampling design (e.g. systematic, random, stratified) can be difficult; (ii) the choice of the sampling design can affect the results; and (iii) defining the focal population of interest can be challenging. Satellite remote sensing is one of the most cost-effective and comprehensive approaches to identify biodiversity hotspots and predict changes in species composition. This is because, in contrast to field-based methods, it allows for complete spatial coverages of the Earth's surface under study over a short period of time. Furthermore, satellite remote sensing provides repeated measures, thus making it possible to study temporal changes in biodiversity. While taxonomic diversity measures have long been established, problems arising from abundance related measures have not been yet disentangled. Moreover, little has been done to account for functional diversity besides taxonomic diversity measures. The aim of this manuscript is to propose robust measures of remotely sensed heterogeneity to perform exploratory analysis for the detection of hotspots of taxonomic and functional diversity of plant species. |
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| spelling | nottingham-485352020-05-04T19:20:47Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48535/ Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study Rocchini, Duccio Bacaro, Giovanni Chirici, Gherado Da Re, Daniele Feilhauer, Hannes Foody, Giles M. Galluzzi, Marta Garzon-Lopez, Carol X. Gillespie, Thomas W. He, Kate S. Lenoir, Jonathan Marcantonio, Matteo Nagendra, Harini Ricotta, Carlo Rommel, Edvinas Schmidtlein, Sebastian Skidmore, Andrew K. Van de Kerchove, Ruben Wegmann, Martin Rugani, Benedetto Assessing biodiversity from field-based data is difficult for a number of practical reasons: (i) establishing the total number of sampling units to be investigated and the sampling design (e.g. systematic, random, stratified) can be difficult; (ii) the choice of the sampling design can affect the results; and (iii) defining the focal population of interest can be challenging. Satellite remote sensing is one of the most cost-effective and comprehensive approaches to identify biodiversity hotspots and predict changes in species composition. This is because, in contrast to field-based methods, it allows for complete spatial coverages of the Earth's surface under study over a short period of time. Furthermore, satellite remote sensing provides repeated measures, thus making it possible to study temporal changes in biodiversity. While taxonomic diversity measures have long been established, problems arising from abundance related measures have not been yet disentangled. Moreover, little has been done to account for functional diversity besides taxonomic diversity measures. The aim of this manuscript is to propose robust measures of remotely sensed heterogeneity to perform exploratory analysis for the detection of hotspots of taxonomic and functional diversity of plant species. Elsevier 2017-12-01 Article PeerReviewed Rocchini, Duccio, Bacaro, Giovanni, Chirici, Gherado, Da Re, Daniele, Feilhauer, Hannes, Foody, Giles M., Galluzzi, Marta, Garzon-Lopez, Carol X., Gillespie, Thomas W., He, Kate S., Lenoir, Jonathan, Marcantonio, Matteo, Nagendra, Harini, Ricotta, Carlo, Rommel, Edvinas, Schmidtlein, Sebastian, Skidmore, Andrew K., Van de Kerchove, Ruben, Wegmann, Martin and Rugani, Benedetto (2017) Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study. Ecological Indicators, 85 . pp. 983-990. ISSN 1872-7034 cartograms; functional diversity; remote sensing; Rao's quadratic diversity; satellite imagery; spectral rarefaction; taxonomic diversity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X17306234 doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.09.055 doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.09.055 |
| spellingShingle | cartograms; functional diversity; remote sensing; Rao's quadratic diversity; satellite imagery; spectral rarefaction; taxonomic diversity Rocchini, Duccio Bacaro, Giovanni Chirici, Gherado Da Re, Daniele Feilhauer, Hannes Foody, Giles M. Galluzzi, Marta Garzon-Lopez, Carol X. Gillespie, Thomas W. He, Kate S. Lenoir, Jonathan Marcantonio, Matteo Nagendra, Harini Ricotta, Carlo Rommel, Edvinas Schmidtlein, Sebastian Skidmore, Andrew K. Van de Kerchove, Ruben Wegmann, Martin Rugani, Benedetto Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study |
| title | Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study |
| title_full | Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study |
| title_fullStr | Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study |
| title_short | Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study |
| title_sort | remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study |
| topic | cartograms; functional diversity; remote sensing; Rao's quadratic diversity; satellite imagery; spectral rarefaction; taxonomic diversity |
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