Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation

Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene

(2021) Nicole Boivin et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications

(2021) Susan L. Ustin et al.   Ecological Processes

Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales

(2021) Elise F Zipkin et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Global inequality remotely sensed

(2021) M. Usman Mirza et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Using satellite imagery to understand and promote sustainable development

(2021) Marshall Burke et al.   SCIENCE

Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space

(2021) Andrew K. Skidmore et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Coupling spectral and resource-use complementarity in experimental grassland and forest communities

(2021) Anna K. Schweiger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predicting species distributions and community composition using satellite remote sensing predictors

(2021) Jesús N. Pinto-Ledezma et al.   Scientific Reports

Remotely sensed between‐individual functional trait variation in a temperate forest

(2021) Carla Guillén‐Escribà et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Agent-based modelling of post-disaster recovery with remote sensing data

(2021) Saman Ghaffarian et al.   International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Towards a multidimensional biodiversity index for national application

(2021) C. A. Soto-Navarro et al.   Nature Sustainability

Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments

(2021) Jeannine Cavender‐Bares et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Representing plant diversity in land models: An evolutionary approach to make “Functional Types” more functional

(2021) Leander D. L. Anderegg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Applying the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production framework to map provisioning ecosystem services and their relation to ecosystem functioning across the European Union

(2021) Andreas Mayer et al.   Ecosystem Services

Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

(2020) Christophe F. Randin et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Hyperspectral Measurements Enable Pre-Symptomatic Detection and Differentiation of Contrasting Physiological Effects of Late Blight and Early Blight in Potato

(2020) Kaitlin M. Gold et al.   Remote Sensing

Analysis of ecological resilience to evaluate the inherent maintenance capacity of a forest ecosystem using a dense Landsat time series

(2020) Yuanyuan Meng et al.   Ecological Informatics

Assessing the reliability of predicted plant trait distributions at the global scale

(2020) Coline C. F. Boonman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Foliar functional traits from imaging spectroscopy across biomes in eastern North America

(2020) Zhihui Wang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reconciling global priorities for conserving biodiversity habitat

(2020) Karel Mokany et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Competing effects of soil fertility and toxicity on tropical greening

(2020) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   Scientific Reports

Soil Microbial Biogeography in a Changing World: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

(2020) Haiyan Chu et al.   mSystems

Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI

(2020) Fabian D. Schneider et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Near-real time forecasting and change detection for an open ecosystem with complex natural dynamics

(2020) Jasper A. Slingsby et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

(2020) Christopher J. Schell et al.   SCIENCE

Intraspecific genetic variation of a Fagus sylvatica population in a temperate forest derived from airborne imaging spectroscopy time series

(2020) Ewa A. Czyż et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Environmental destruction not avoided with the Sustainable Development Goals

(2020) Yiwen Zeng et al.   Nature Sustainability

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

(2020) David Leclère et al.   NATURE

Towards delivering on the sustainable development goals using earth observations

(2020) Argyro Kavvada et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

(2020) Sandra Díaz et al.   SCIENCE

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

(2020) Fons van der Plas et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Stimulation of soil respiration by elevated CO2 is enhanced under nitrogen limitation in a decade-long grassland study

(2020) Qun Gao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Socioecologically informed use of remote sensing data to predict rural household poverty

(2019) Gary R. Watmough et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Dynamic Habitat Indices (DHIs) from MODIS and global biodiversity

(2019) V.C. Radeloff et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Deforestation displaced: trade in forest-risk commodities and the prospects for a global forest transition

(2019) Florence Pendrill et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Global patterns and drivers of tree diversity integrated across a continuum of spatial grains

(2019) Petr Keil et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

(2019) Walter Jetz et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Global synergies and trade-offs between multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services

(2019) Marco Girardello et al.   Scientific Reports

Impact of the ARSET Program on Use of Remote-Sensing Data

(2019) Ana I. Prados et al.   ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Remote sensing of terrestrial plant biodiversity

(2019) Ran Wang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Partitioning plant spectral diversity into alpha and beta components

(2019) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Space‐Based Observations for Understanding Changes in the Arctic‐Boreal Zone

(2019) Bryan N. Duncan et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Global modeling of nature’s contributions to people

(2019) Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer et al.   SCIENCE

Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space

(2019) Soyeon Bae et al.   Nature Communications

Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks

(2019) Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   Nature Communications

Mapping Photosynthesis Solely from Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence: A Global, Fine-Resolution Dataset of Gross Primary Production Derived from OCO-2

(2019) Li et al.   Remote Sensing

Deficits of biodiversity and productivity linger a century after agricultural abandonment

(2019) Forest Isbell et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

(2019) Jens Kattge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High overlap between traditional ecological knowledge and forest conservation found in the Bolivian Amazon

(2018) Jaime Paneque-Gálvez et al.   AMBIO

Community-wide consequences of variation in photoprotective physiology among prairie plants

(2018) S. Kothari et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests

(2018) J. W. Ferry Slik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

Understanding and assessing vegetation health by in situ species and remote-sensing approaches

(2018) Angela Lausch et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Improving biodiversity monitoring using satellite remote sensing to provide solutions towards the 2020 conservation targets

(2018) Sandra Luque et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits

(2018) W. Daniel Kissling et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

PaleoClim, high spatial resolution paleoclimate surfaces for global land areas

(2018) Jason L. Brown et al.   Scientific Data

Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution

(2018) Hylke E. Beck et al.   Scientific Data

Mapping foliar functional traits and their uncertainties across three years in a grassland experiment

(2018) Zhihui Wang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Comparative studies of critical physiological limits and vulnerability to environmental extremes in small ectotherms: how much environmental control is needed?

(2017) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   Integrative Zoology

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Hyperspectral remote sensing detection of petroleum hydrocarbons in mixtures with mineral substrates: Implications for onshore exploration and monitoring

(2017) Rebecca Del'Papa Moreira Scafutto et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Global priorities for conservation across multiple dimensions of mammalian diversity

(2017) Fernanda T. Brum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PROSPECT-D: Towards modeling leaf optical properties through a complete lifecycle

(2017) J.-B. Féret et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Mapping functional diversity from remotely sensed morphological and physiological forest traits

(2017) Fabian D. Schneider et al.   Nature Communications

How Essential Biodiversity Variables and remote sensing can help national biodiversity monitoring

(2017) Petteri Vihervaara et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

ISS observations offer insights into plant function

(2017) E. Natasha Stavros et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability

(2017) Carl Folke et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Evolutionary Legacy Effects on Ecosystems: Biogeographic Origins, Plant Traits, and Implications for Management in the Era of Global Change

(2016) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system

(2016) Claudia Dislich et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Linking Earth Observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: Local to ecosystem perspectives

(2016) A. Lausch et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Forests as landscapes of social inequality: tropical forest cover and land distribution among shifting cultivators

(2016) Oliver T. Coomes et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Scaling up the diversity-resilience relationship with trait databases and remote sensing data: the recovery of productivity after wildfire

(2016) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantifying spatial resilience

(2016) Craig R. Allen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Landsat and GRACE observations of arid wetland dynamics in a dryland river system under multi-decadal hydroclimatic extremes

(2016) Zunyi Xie et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Phenological variation of leaf functional traits within species

(2016) Alex Fajardo et al.   OECOLOGIA

A 6900-year history of landscape modification by humans in lowland Amazonia

(2016) M.B. Bush et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change

(2016) M. C. Urban et al.   SCIENCE

The bad news is that the digital access divide is here to stay: Domestically installed bandwidths among 172 countries for 1986–2014

(2016) Martin Hilbert   TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY

Spectranomics: Emerging science and conservation opportunities at the interface of biodiversity and remote sensing

(2016) Gregory P. Asner et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Free and open-access satellite data are key to biodiversity conservation

(2015) W. Turner et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Mountain Pine Beetle with an Emphasis on Previsual Assessment

(2015) K. Olaf Niemann et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Oil palm plantations fail to support mammal diversity

(2015) Sam Yue et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Perspectives for ecosystem management based on ecosystem resilience and ecological thresholds against multiple and stochastic disturbances

(2015) Takehiro Sasaki et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Environmental science: Agree on biodiversity metrics to track from space

(2015) Andrew K. Skidmore et al.   NATURE

Mycorrhizal ecology and evolution: the past, the present, and the future

(2015) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phylogeny, extinction and conservation: embracing uncertainties in a time of urgency

(2015) F. Forest et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic diversity, functional trait diversity and extinction: avoiding tipping points and worst-case losses

(2015) D. P. Faith   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climatic controls on ecosystem resilience: Postfire regeneration in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa

(2015) Adam M. Wilson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying forest canopy traits: Imaging spectroscopy versus field survey

(2015) Gregory P. Asner et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity

(2015) Y. Hautier et al.   SCIENCE

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

(2015) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

(2015) R. Kays et al.   SCIENCE

Plant species effects on nutrient cycling: revisiting litter feedbacks

(2015) Sarah E. Hobbie   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Declining resilience of ecosystem functions under biodiversity loss

(2015) Tom H. Oliver et al.   Nature Communications

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Mountain Pine Beetle with an Emphasis on Previsual Assessment

(2015) K. Olaf Niemann et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

(2014) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes

(2014) Catherine H. Graham et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Spectroscopic determination of leaf morphological and biochemical traits for northern temperate and boreal tree species

(2014) Shawn P. Serbin et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Mapping tropical forest canopy diversity using high-fidelity imaging spectroscopy

(2014) Jean-Baptiste Féret et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Convergent phylogenetic and functional responses to altered fire regimes in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa

(2014) Elisabeth J. Forrestel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Imaging spectroscopy links aspen genotype with below-ground processes at landscape scales

(2014) M. D. Madritch et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Prediction of phylogeographic endemism in an environmentally complex biome

(2014) A. C. Carnaval et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sensing biodiversity

(2014) W. Turner   SCIENCE

Advances in animal ecology from 3D-LiDAR ecosystem mapping

(2014) Andrew B. Davies et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effects of Oil-Palm Plantations on Diversity of Tropical Anurans

(2013) AISYAH FARUK et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Diversity loss with persistent human disturbance increases vulnerability to ecosystem collapse

(2013) A. S. MacDougall et al.   NATURE

Environmental and community controls on plant canopy chemistry in a Mediterranean-type ecosystem

(2013) K. M. Dahlin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Used planet: A global history

(2013) E. C. Ellis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Essential Biodiversity Variables

(2013) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Land System Science: between global challenges and local realities

(2013) Peter H Verburg et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

(2013) Hai Cheng et al.   Nature Communications

Rapid climate change and the rate of adaptation: insight from experimental quantitative genetics

(2012) Ruth G. Shaw et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Satellite observations of high northern latitude vegetation productivity changes between 1982 and 2008: ecological variability and regional differences

(2011) Pieter S A Beck et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar

(2011) Marc Simard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Climate change and evolutionary adaptation

(2011) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: Recent advances and open challenges

(2010) Duccio Rocchini et al.   Ecological Informatics

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia

(2010) Doyle McKey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Enhancing soil carbon storage for carbon remediation: potential contributions and constraints by microbes

(2010) Gary M. King   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes

(2009) Forest I. Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Penguins from space: faecal stains reveal the location of emperor penguin colonies

(2009) Peter T. Fretwell et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Using hyperspectral satellite imagery for regional inventories: a test with tropical emergent trees in the Amazon Basin

(2009) M. Papeş et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

(2009) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NATURE

Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability

(2009) Joseph M. Craine et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change

(2009) M. W. Tingley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Characterizing canopy biochemistry from imaging spectroscopy and its application to ecosystem studies

(2009) Raymond F. Kokaly et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot

(2009) A. C. Carnaval et al.   SCIENCE

A Simple Method for Bracketing Absolute Divergence Times on Molecular Phylogenies Using Multiple Fossil Calibration Points

(2008) Charles R. Marshall   AMERICAN NATURALIST

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Links between plant litter chemistry, species diversity, and below-ground ecosystem function

(2008) C. L. Meier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA