Using airborne and DESIS imaging spectroscopy to map plant diversity across the largest contiguous tract of tallgrass prairie on earth

Remote sensing of phenology: Towards the comprehensive indicators of plant community dynamics from species to regional scales

(2022) Iryna Dronova et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intra-annual taxonomic and phenological drivers of spectral variance in grasslands

(2022) Rachael Thornley et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation

(2022) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

From zero to infinity: Minimum to maximum diversity of the planet by spatio‐parametric Rao’s quadratic entropy

(2021) Duccio Rocchini et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms

(2021) Kerry Cawse-Nicholson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The relationship between species and spectral diversity in grassland communities is mediated by their vertical complexity

(2021) Luisa Conti et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Potential and Limitations of Grasslands α-Diversity Prediction Using Fine-Scale Hyperspectral Imagery

(2021) Hafiz Ali Imran et al.   Remote Sensing

Remote sensing of spectral diversity: A new methodological approach to account for spatio-temporal dissimilarities between plant communities

(2021) Christian Rossi et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Managing an Invasive Species While Simultaneously Conserving Native Plant Diversity

(2021) C.W. Sherrill et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Explaining discrepancies between spectral and in-situ plant diversity in multispectral satellite earth observation

(2021) Leon T. Hauser et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Spatial resolution, spectral metrics and biomass are key aspects in estimating plant species richness from spectral diversity in species‐rich grasslands

(2021) Christian Rossi et al.   Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation

PACO: Python-Based Atmospheric COrrection

(2020) Raquel de los de los Reyes et al.   SENSORS

Multi‐temporal assessment of grassland α‐ and β‐diversity using hyperspectral imaging

(2020) Hamed Gholizadeh et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2020) Zhihui Wang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mapping functional diversity using individual tree-based morphological and physiological traits in a subtropical forest

(2020) Zhaoju Zheng et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Flux towers in the sky: global ecology from space

(2019) David Schimel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Instrument Design of the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS)

(2019) David Krutz et al.   SENSORS

Fire cues trigger germination and stimulate seedling growth of grass species from Brazilian savannas

(2019) Desirée M. Ramos et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Partitioning plant spectral diversity into alpha and beta components

(2019) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Data Products, Quality and Validation of the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS)

(2019) Kevin Alonso et al.   SENSORS

The spatial sensitivity of the spectral diversity-biodiversity relationship: an experimental test in a prairie grassland

(2018) Ran Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Research on the Etalon Effect in Dispersive Hyperspectral VNIR Imagers Using Back-Illuminated CCDs

(2018) Bin-Lin Hu et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Influence of species richness, evenness, and composition on optical diversity: A simulation study

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

Remote sensing of biodiversity: Soil correction and data dimension reduction methods improve assessment of α-diversity (species richness) in prairie ecosystems

(2018) Hamed Gholizadeh et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Plant community responses to bison reintroduction on the Northern Great Plains, USA: A test of the keystone species concept

(2018) N.A McMillan et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Plant spectral diversity integrates functional and phylogenetic components of biodiversity and predicts ecosystem function

(2018) Anna K. Schweiger et al.   Nature Ecology & 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

Detecting prairie biodiversity with airborne remote sensing

(2018) Hamed Gholizadeh et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The spectral variability hypothesis does not hold across landscapes

(2017) Sebastian Schmidtlein 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

ISS observations offer insights into plant function

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

Spectral diversity area relationships for assessing biodiversity in a wildland-agriculture matrix

(2016) Kyla Marie Dahlin   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Mapping tree species diversity of a tropical montane forest by unsupervised clustering of airborne imaging spectroscopy data

(2016) Elisa Schäfer et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

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

(2016) A. Lausch et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Effects of plot size and their spatial arrangement on estimates of alpha, beta and gamma diversity of plants in alpine grassland

(2016) Eliane Seraina Meier et al.   Alpine Botany

Airborne Hyperspectral Data Predict Fine-Scale Plant Species Diversity in Grazed Dry Grasslands

(2016) Thomas Möckel et al.   Remote Sensing

A sustainability framework for assessing trade-offs in ecosystem services

(2015) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Quantifying forest canopy traits: Imaging spectroscopy versus field survey

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

Mapping tropical forest canopy diversity using high-fidelity imaging spectroscopy

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

Sensing biodiversity

(2014) W. Turner   SCIENCE

Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

(2013) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Decoupling the spread of grasslands from the evolution of grazer-type herbivores in South America

(2013) Caroline A.E. Strömberg et al.   Nature Communications

Conservation of Pattern and Process: Developing an Alternative Paradigm of Rangeland Management

(2012) Samuel D. Fuhlendorf et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Lessons learned from invasive plant control experiments: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2011) Karin M. Kettenring et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

How diversification rates and diversity limits combine to create large-scale species-area relationships

(2011) Y. Kisel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ungulate preference for burned patches reveals strength of fire-grazing interaction

(2011) Brady W. Allred et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

(2010) Duccio Rocchini et al.   Ecological Informatics

Operational and Performance Considerations of Radiative-Transfer Modeling in Hyperspectral Target Detection

(2010) Stefania Matteoli et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Variation in the effects of vertebrate grazing on fire potential between grassland structural types

(2010) Steve Leonard et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Species richness estimation: Estimator performance and the influence of rare species

(2010) Katharina Reichert et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

Sources of variability in canopy reflectance and the convergent properties of plants

(2010) S. V. Ollinger   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Remote sensing of plant functional types

(2010) Susan L. Ustin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Does using species abundance data improve estimates of species diversity from remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity?

(2009) Jens Oldeland et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

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

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

Forage quality of savannas — Simultaneously mapping foliar protein and polyphenols for trees and grass using hyperspectral imagery

(2009) Andrew K. Skidmore et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Pyric Herbivory: Rewilding Landscapes through the Recoupling of Fire and Grazing

(2008) SAMUEL D. FUHLENDORF et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Airborne spectranomics: mapping canopy chemical and taxonomic diversity in tropical forests

(2008) Gregory P Asner et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The use of hyperspectral remote sensing to assess vascular plant species richness on Horn Island, Mississippi

(2008) K LUCAS et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT