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Biodiversity Study by Remote Sensing

A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2016) | Viewed by 7225

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Duccio Rocchini

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Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, via Irnerio 42, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: biodiversity estimate; computational ecology; ecological informatics; remote sensing; spatial ecology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Quantifying biodiversity is a challenging task, overall considering impervious areas. In some cases, field sampling might need an efficient way to be planned. In this view, remote sensing is a valuable tool for efficiently planning field sampling for biodiversity data gathering.
Additionally, remote sensing represents a powerful tool for predicting biodiversity spots and species community turnover, based on a number of different sensors/images at different spatial and spectral resolutions.
The aim of this Special Issue is to focus on theoretical and empirical research to face biodiversity-related issues, based on remote sensing data.
We encourage researchers to send their manuscript on the following topics:

- the theory behind the use of remote sensing for biodiversity study
- macroecology and remote sensing
- remote sensing for the improvement of the efficiency of sampling design
- empirical evidence on the relationship between field and remote sensing information on biodiversity
- species distribution modeling
- species invasions, tracked by remote sensing and remotely sensed variables

Dr. Duccio Rocchini
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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.


Keywords

  • biodiversity
  • macroecology
  • remote sensing
  • species distribution modeling
  • sensors
  • spatial resolution
  • spectral resolution
  • statistics

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Estimating Invasion Success by Non-Native Trees in a National Park Combining WorldView-2 Very High Resolution Satellite Data and Species Distribution Models
by Antonio T. Monteiro, João Gonçalves, Rui F. Fernandes, Susana Alves, Bruno Marcos, Richard Lucas, Ana Claúdia Teodoro and João P. Honrado
Diversity 2017, 9(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/d9010006 - 18 Jan 2017
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Invasion by non-native tree species is an environmental and societal challenge requiring predictive tools to assess invasion dynamics. The frequent scale mismatch between such tools and on-ground conservation is currently limiting invasion management. This study aimed to reduce these scale mismatches, assess the [...] Read more.
Invasion by non-native tree species is an environmental and societal challenge requiring predictive tools to assess invasion dynamics. The frequent scale mismatch between such tools and on-ground conservation is currently limiting invasion management. This study aimed to reduce these scale mismatches, assess the success of non-native tree invasion and determine the environmental factors associated to it. A hierarchical scaling approach combining species distribution models (SDMs) and satellite mapping at very high resolution (VHR) was developed to assess invasion by Acacia dealbata in Peneda-Gerês National Park, the only national park in Portugal. SDMs were first used to predict the climatically suitable areas for A. dealdata and satellite mapping with the random-forests classifier was then applied to WorldView-2 very-high resolution imagery to determine whether A. dealdata had actually colonized the predicted areas (invasion success). Environmental attributes (topographic, disturbance and canopy-related) differing between invaded and non-invaded vegetated areas were then analyzed. The SDM results indicated that most (67%) of the study area was climatically suitable for A. dealbata invasion. The onset of invasion was documented to 1905 and satellite mapping highlighted that 12.6% of study area was colonized. However, this species had only colonized 62.5% of the maximum potential range, although was registered within 55.6% of grid cells that were considerable unsuitable. Across these areas, the specific success rate of invasion was mostly below 40%, indicating that A. dealbata invasion was not dominant and effective management may still be possible. Environmental attributes related to topography (slope), canopy (normalized difference vegetation index (ndvi), land surface albedo) and disturbance (historical burnt area) differed between invaded and non-invaded vegetated area, suggesting that landscape attributes may alter at specific locations with Acacia invasion. Fine-scale spatial-explicit estimation of invasion success combining SDM predictions with VHR invasion mapping allowed the scale mismatch between predictions of invasion dynamics and on-ground conservation decision making for invasion management to be reduced. Locations with greater potential to suppress invasions could also be defined. Uncertainty in the invasion mapping needs to be accounted for in the interpretation of the results. Full article
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