Human-environment interactions,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Aug. 28, 2020
This
open
access
book
is
sustainable
land
management,
focusing
on
sustainability
goals,
important
drivers,
existing
challenges,
and
new
ways
to
address
certain
aspects
challenges
through
concepts
by
integrating
different
disciplines
including
practitioners.
Nature Ecology & Evolution,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
3(4), P. 539 - 551
Published: March 11, 2019
Species
distributions
and
abundances
are
undergoing
rapid
changes
worldwide.
This
highlights
the
significance
of
reliable,
integrated
information
for
guiding
assessing
actions
policies
aimed
at
managing
sustaining
many
functions
benefits
species.
Here
we
synthesize
types
data
approaches
that
required
to
achieve
such
an
integration
conceptualize
'essential
biodiversity
variables'
(EBVs)
a
unified
global
capture
species
populations
in
space
time.
The
inherent
heterogeneity
sparseness
raw
overcome
by
use
models
remotely
sensed
covariates
inform
predictions
contiguous
time
extent.
We
define
population
EBVs
as
space-time-species-gram
(cube)
simultaneously
addresses
distribution
or
abundance
multiple
species,
with
its
resolution
adjusted
represent
available
evidence
acceptable
levels
uncertainty.
essential
enables
monitoring
single
aggregate
spatial
taxonomic
units
scales
relevant
research
decision-making.
When
combined
ancillary
environmental
data,
this
fundamental
directly
underpins
range
ecosystem
function
indicators.
concept
present
links
disparate
downstream
uses
informs
vision
which
collection
is
closely
infrastructure
support
effective
assessment.
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
11(11), P. 1309 - 1309
Published: June 1, 2019
Remote
sensing
can
transform
the
speed,
scale,
and
cost
of
biodiversity
forestry
surveys.
Data
acquisition
currently
outpaces
ability
to
identify
individual
organisms
in
high
resolution
imagery.
We
outline
an
approach
for
identifying
tree-crowns
RGB
imagery
while
using
a
semi-supervised
deep
learning
detection
network.
Individual
crown
delineation
has
been
long-standing
challenge
remote
available
algorithms
produce
mixed
results.
show
that
models
leverage
existing
Light
Detection
Ranging
(LIDAR)-based
unsupervised
generate
trees
are
used
training
initial
model.
Despite
limitations
original
approach,
this
noisy
data
may
contain
information
from
which
neural
network
learn
tree
features.
then
refine
model
small
number
higher-quality
hand-annotated
images.
validate
our
proposed
open-canopy
site
National
Ecological
Observation
Network.
Our
results
434,551
self-generated
with
addition
2848
yields
accurate
predictions
natural
landscapes.
Using
intersection-over-union
threshold
0.5,
full
had
average
recall
0.69,
precision
0.61
visually-annotated
data.
The
rate
0.82
field
collected
stems.
improved
performance
over
self-supervised
This
demonstrates
overcome
lack
labeled
by
generating
methods
retraining
resulting
quality