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2D visualization captures the local heterogeneity of oxidative metabolism across soils from diverse land-use

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A Lack of “Environmental Earth Data” at the Microhabitat Scale Impacts Efforts to Control Invasive Arthropods That Vector Pathogens

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A grid-based map for the Biogeographical Regions of Europe

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

A landscape genetics approach reveals ecological-based differentiation in populations of holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) at the northern limit of its range

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A multi-temporal approach in MaxEnt modelling: A new frontier for land use/land cover change detection

scholarly article by Valerio Amici et al published July 2017 in Ecological Informatics

A new platform to support research at the interface of remote sensing, ecology and conservation

A spatially-explicit model of alien plant richness in Tenerife (Canary Islands)

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A suite of essential biodiversity variables for detecting critical biodiversity change

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A unified framework to model the potential and realized distributions of invasive species within the invaded range

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A virtual species set for robust and reproducible species distribution modelling tests

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Absence of distance decay in the similarity of plots at small extent in an urban brownfield

Accounting for uncertainty when mapping species distributions: The need for maps of ignorance

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Advances in Microclimate Ecology Arising from Remote Sensing

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Advancing species diversity estimate by remotely sensed proxies: A conceptual review

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Algorithmic foundation of spectral rarefaction for measuring satellite imagery heterogeneity at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 8 January 2009

Analyzing remotely sensed structural and chemical canopy traits of a forest invaded by Prunus serotina over multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Anthropogenic drivers of plant diversity: perspective on land use change in a dynamic cultural landscape

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Anticipating species distributions: Handling sampling effort bias under a Bayesian framework

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Are landscapes as crisp as we may think?

article published in 2007

Assessing Plant Diversity in a Dry Tropical Forest: Comparing the Utility of Landsat and Ikonos Satellite Images

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Assessing floristic composition with multispectral sensors—A comparison based on monotemporal and multiseasonal field spectra

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Assessing the impact of an invasive bryophyte on plant species richness using high resolution imaging spectroscopy

scientific article published in 2020

Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

scientific article published in 2023

Author Correction: Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space

scientific article published in 2021

Benefits of hyperspectral remote sensing for tracking plant invasions

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Beyond parks as monoliths: Spatially differentiating park-people relationships in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in India

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Biodiversity, roads, & landscape fragmentation: Two Mediterranean cases

Calculating landscape diversity with information-theory based indices: A GRASS GIS solution

scientific article published in 2013

Can satellite-based night lights be used for conservation? The case of nesting sea turtles in the Mediterranean

article by Tessa Mazor et al published March 2013 in Biological Conservation

Cartogramming uncertainty in species distribution models: A Bayesian approach

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Cartograms tool to represent spatial uncertainty in species distribution

Challenges and opportunities in harnessing satellite remote-sensing for biodiversity monitoring

scholarly article by Paola Mairota et al published November 2015 in Ecological Informatics

Climate-related adaptive genetic variation and population structure in natural stands of Norway spruce in the South-Eastern Alps

Commentary on Krishnaswamy et al. - Quantifying and mapping biodiversity and ecosystem services: Utility of a multi-season NDVI based Mahalanobis distance surrogate

scholarly article by Duccio Rocchini published May 2009 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Correction: Is Switzerland Suitable for the Invasion ofAedes albopictus? ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 December 2013

Crowdsourcing: It Matters Who the Crowd Are. The Impacts of between Group Variations in Recording Land Cover ⬇️

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Daily MODIS Land Surface Temperature Data for the Analysis of the Heat Requirements of Grapevine Varieties

article by Roberto Zorer et al published April 2013 in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Determinants of plant community composition of remnant biancane badlands: a hierarchical approach to quantify species-environment relationships

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Discovering and rediscovering the sample-based rarefaction formula in the ecological literature

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Disentangling the role of remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy for North American plant species richness

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Distance decay in spectral space in analysing ecosystem β‐diversity

Distribution and functional traits of small mammals across the Mediterranean area: landscape composition and structure definitively matter

scientific article published in 2022

Distributional patterns of endemic, native and alien species along a roadside elevation gradient in Tenerife, Canary Islands

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Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure

scientific article published on 07 December 2021

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

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Double down on remote sensing for biodiversity estimation: a biological mindset

scientific article published in 2022

Earth Observation for Ecosystems Monitoring in Space and Time: A Special Issue in Remote Sensing

Ecological Status and Change by Remote Sensing

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Effects of Land Use-Land Cover Thematic Resolution on Environmental Evaluations

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

Effects of an afforestation process on plant species richness: A retrogressive analysis

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Effects of environmental conditions on ICESat-2 terrain and canopy heights retrievals in Central European mountains

scientific article published on 17 June 2022

Effects of spatial and spectral resolution in estimating ecosystem α-diversity by satellite imagery

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Estimates of ozone AOT40 from passive sampling in forest sites in South-Western Europe

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Estimating hantavirus risk in southern Argentina: a GIS-based approach combining human cases and host distribution

scientific article published on 14 January 2014

Estimating tree species diversity from space in an alpine conifer forest: The Rao's Q diversity index meets the spectral variation hypothesis

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Explicitly accounting for pixel dimension in calculating classical and fractal landscape shape metrics

scientific article published on 29 January 2009

Exploring the Relationship between Remotely-Sensed Spectral Variables and Attributes of Tropical Forest Vegetation under the Influence of Local Forest Institutions

Fourier transforms for detecting multitemporal landscape fragmentation by remote sensing

Framing the concept of satellite remote sensing essential biodiversity variables: challenges and future directions

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From local spectral species to global spectral communities: A benchmark for ecosystem diversity estimate by remote sensing

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

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

scientific article published on 15 March 2021

Fuzzy species distribution models: a way to represent plant communities spatially

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GIS-Based Data Synthesis and Visualization

scholarly article published 23 September 2017

Geographical Distribution of Ljungan Virus in Small Mammals in Europe

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Geostatistical modelling of regional bird species richness: exploring environmental proxies for conservation purpose

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Habitats as predictors in species distribution models: Shall we use continuous or binary data?

scientific article published on 14 April 2022

Height variation hypothesis: A new approach for estimating forest species diversity with CHM LiDAR data

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

High resolution satellite imagery for tropical biodiversity studies: the devil is in the detail

High-resolution satellite remote sensing: a new frontier for biodiversity exploration in Indian Himalayan forests

article by Sanjay Gairola et al published 20 March 2013 in International Journal of Remote Sensing

Human activity impact on the heterogeneity of a Mediterranean landscape

Impact of alien species on dune systems: a multifaceted approach

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Important characteristics of multispectral data for an assessment of floristic variation

Incorporating spatial autocorrelation in rarefaction methods: Implications for ecologists and conservation biologists

scientific article published in 2016

Integrating field and satellite data for spatially explicit inference on the density of threatened arboreal primates

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Geospatial Monitoring and Modeling of Environmental Change

Invasion by the Alien Tree Prunus serotina Alters Ecosystem Functions in a Temperate Deciduous Forest ⬇️

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Invasive fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum (Forssk.) Chiov.) increases its potential area of distribution in Tenerife island under future climatic scenarios

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Invasiveness of alien plants in Brussels is related to their phylogenetic similarity to native species

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Is Switzerland suitable for the invasion of Aedes albopictus [corrected]? ⬇️

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Is spectral distance a proxy of beta diversity at different taxonomic ranks? A test using quantile regression

scientific article published in 2009

Korcak dimension as a novel indicator of landscape fragmentation and re-forestation

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Landscape change and the dynamics of open formations in a natural reserve

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Landscape complexity and spatial scale influence the relationship between remotely sensed spectral diversity and survey-based plant species richness

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Landscape metrics and topographical determinants of large-scale forest dynamics in a Mediterranean landscape

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Landscape structure effects on forest plant diversity at local scale: Exploring the role of spatial extent

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Let the four freedoms paradigm apply to ecology ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

LiDAR derived forest structure data improves predictions of canopy N and P concentrations from imaging spectroscopy

scholarly article by Michael Ewald et al published June 2018 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Mapping an invasive bryophyte species using hyperspectral remote sensing data

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Mapping uncertainty of ICP-Forest biodiversity data: From standard treatment of diffusion to density-equalizing cartograms

scientific article published in 2018

Maximizing plant species inventory efficiency by means of remotely sensed spectral distances

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Measuring Rao's Q diversity index from remote sensing: An open source solution

scientific article published in 2017

Measuring and modelling biodiversity from space

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Measuring diversity from space: a global view of the free and open source rasterdiv R package under a coding perspective

scientific article published in 2021

Measuring β-diversity by remote sensing: A challenge for biodiversity monitoring ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

Mineralogic mapping of the Av-9 Numisia quadrangle of Vesta

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Modeling Primate Abundance in Complex Landscapes: A Case Study From the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania

scholarly article by Claudia Barelli et al published 6 March 2015 in International Journal of Primatology

Modeling Species Distribution Using Niche-Based Proxies Derived from Composite Bioclimatic Variables and MODIS NDVI

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Modeling α- and β-diversity in a tropical forest from remotely sensed and spatial data

Modelling factors affecting litter mass components of pine stands

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

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Multi-scale sampling and statistical linear estimators to assess land use status and change

article by Duccio Rocchini et al published April 2009 in Applied Vegetation Science

Multi-stage cluster sampling for estimating average species richness at different spatial grains

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New Automated Method to Develop Geometrically Corrected Time Series of Brightness Temperatures from Historical AVHRR LAC Data

Open data and open source for remote sensing training in ecology

scholarly article by Duccio Rocchini et al published July 2017 in Ecological Informatics

Patterns of native and exotic species richness in the urban flora of Brussels: rejecting the ‘rich get richer’ model

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Planning restoration in a cultural landscape in Italy using an object-based approach and historical analysis

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Plant invasion risk: A quest for invasive species distribution modelling in managing protected areas

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Positional errors in species distribution modelling are not overcome by the coarser grains of analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Positioning of remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity in the framework of life cycle impact assessment on biodiversity

scientific article published in 2016

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

scientific article published in 2021

Potential of remote sensing to predict species invasions

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Preface to the special issue “Open Science for earth remote sensing: latest developments in software and data”

article published in 2017

Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space

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Quantifying plant species diversity in a Natura 2000 network: Old ideas and new proposals

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Quantifying species richness at multiple spatial scales in a Natura 2000 network

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Quantile Regression Applied to Spectral Distance Decay

RS as Rubbish Sensing? A Reply from a Landscape Ecologist

Rarefaction of beta diversity

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Recent Landscape Changes on a Small Mediterranean Island

Relating spectral and species diversity through rarefaction curves

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Relevance of the Cell Neighborhood Size in Landscape Metrics Evaluation and Free or Open Source Software Implementations

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

Relief effects on aerial photos geometric correction

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation: three years on

Remote sensing at the interface between ecology and climate sciences

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Remote sensing object-oriented approaches coupled with ecological informatics to map invasive plant species

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Remote sensing of beta diversity: evidence from plant communities in a semi-natural system

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Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study

scientific article published in 2018

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

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Robust rectification of aerial photographs in an open source environment

Role of African protected areas in maintaining connectivity for large mammals.

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Sampling and modelling rare species: Conceptual guidelines for the neglected majority

scientific article published on 31 January 2022

Sampling strategy matters to accurately estimate response curves' parameters in species distribution models

scientific article published on 7 July 2023

Satellite remote sensing to monitor species diversity: potential and pitfalls

Seeing the unseen by remote sensing: satellite imagery applied to species distribution modelling

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Sensing Technologies and Their Integration with Maps: Mapping Landscape Heterogeneity by Satellite Imagery

Shape matters in sampling plant diversity: Evidence from the field

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Simple to sample: Vascular plants as surrogate group in a nature reserve

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Some remarks on “New functions for estimating AOT40 from ozone passive sampling” by De Marco et al. (2014)

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Spatial Algorithms Applied to Landscape Diversity Estimate from Remote Sensing Data

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Spatially constrained rarefaction: incorporating the autocorrelated structure of biological communities into sample-based rarefaction

article by Alessandro Chiarucci et al published December 2009 in Community Ecology

Spatially-based accuracy assessment of forestation prediction in a complex Mediterranean landscape

Spatio-ecological complexity measures in GRASS GIS

Spectral Distance Decay

Spectral rank–abundance for measuring landscape diversity

Spectral rarefaction: linking ecological variability and plant species diversity

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Spectral variation versus species beta-diversity at different spatial scales: a test in African highland savannas

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Stability analysis for defining management strategies in abandoned mountain landscapes of the Mediterranean basin

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Sun–induced fluorescence heterogeneity as a measure of functional diversity

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Surface Temperatures at the Continental Scale: Tracking Changes with Remote Sensing at Unprecedented Detail

article by Markus Metz et al published 28 April 2014 in Remote Sensing

Surface Tradeoffs and Elevational Shifts at the Largest Italian Glacier: A Thirty-Years Time Series of Remotely-Sensed Images

scientific article published in 2021

Taking stock of nature: Essential biodiversity variables explained ⬇️

Terra and Aqua satellites track tiger mosquito invasion: modelling the potential distribution of Aedes albopictus in north-eastern Italy ⬇️

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Testing the Height Variation Hypothesis with the R rasterdiv Package for Tree Species Diversity Estimation

scientific article published on 08 September 2021

Testing the spectral variation hypothesis by using satellite multispectral images

scientific article published in 2004

The DIARS toolbox: a spatially explicit approach to monitor alien plant invasions through remote sensing

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The Korcak-exponent: A non-fractal descriptor for landscape patchiness

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The Sensitivity of Mapping Methods to Reference Data Quality: Training Supervised Image Classifications with Imperfect Reference Data

scholarly article by Giles Foody et al published 1 November 2016 in International Journal of Geo Information

The Spectral Species Concept in Living Color

scientific article published in 2022

The geographical and environmental determinants of genetic diversity for four alpine conifers of the European Alps.

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

The integration of Artificial Night-Time Lights in landscape ecology: A remote sensing approach

article by Matteo Marcantonio et al published June 2015 in Ecological Complexity

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

scientific article published on 14 July 2021

The role of regional and local scale predictors for plant species richness in Mediterranean forests

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The spatial domain matters: Spatially constrained species rarefaction in a Free and Open Source environment

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Time-lapsing biodiversity: An open source method for measuring diversity changes by remote sensing

scientific article published in 2019

Transferability of species distribution models for the detection of an invasive alien bryophyte using imaging spectroscopy data

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Uncertainty in ecosystem mapping by remote sensing

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

scientific article published in August 2018

Unveil the unseen: Using LiDAR to capture time‐lag dynamics in the herbaceous layer of European temperate forests

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Use of multi-annual MODIS Land Surface Temperature data for the characterization of the heat requirements for grapevine varieties

VIS-NIR, Red-Edge and NIR-Shoulder Based Normalized Vegetation Indices Response to Co-Varying Leaf and Canopy Structural Traits in Heterogeneous Grasslands

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Which optical traits enable an estimation of tree species diversity based on the Spectral Variation Hypothesis?

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

While Boolean sets non-gently rip: A theoretical framework on fuzzy sets for mapping landscape patterns

scientific article published in 2010

Will remote sensing shape the next generation of species distribution models?

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