OOS 1: Advances in Biodiversity Science with Remote Sensing

Monday, August 2, 2021

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Pacific

Session Organizer(s)

Fabian Schneider

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA

Moderator(s)

Fabian Schneider

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA

Volunteer(s)

Yanjun Yang

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Session Co-organizers: Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, Philip Townsend, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI

Biodiversity is declining rapidly under stark pressures from human activities and climate change, highlighting the need for biodiversity observations and monitoring that can contribute to advancing global biodiversity targets, help guide biological conservation and restoration and address critical science questions related to changes in ecosystem functioning and resilience. Towards this end, remote sensing is an increasingly valuable tool to address urgent biodiversity science questions at a range of spatial and temporal scales from genes to biomes at diurnal to decadal time scales. In this session, we present contributions that utilize remote sensing to address science questions in an interdisciplinary context related to biodiversity and its vital connections to plant functional traits, ecosystem functioning and services, and the environment. The presentations cover different remote sensing techniques, such as imaging spectroscopy and lidar, in a range of ecosystems, such as grasslands, bushlands, forests and mixed landcover types in arctic to tropical climates, and at spatial scales from individual communities to whole landscapes.

Presentations:

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Biodiversity Survey of the Cape (BioSCape): A NASA Biodiversity field campaign in the Greater Cape Floristic Region of South Africa
Presenting Author: Adam Wilson – University at Buffalo, State University of New York
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Imagi(ni)ng spectroscopy: Understanding functional trait syndromes that lead to ecosystem service potential
Presenting Author: Maria J. Santos – University of Zurich
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Landscape diversity is positively linked to landscape functioning
Presenting Author: Jacqueline Oehri – University of Zurich University of Zurich
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Remote sensing of biodiversity in grasslands: Opportunities and challenges
Presenting Author: Hamed Gholizadeh – Oklahoma State University
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The spatial structure of beta-diversity revealed with imaging spectroscopy
Presenting Author: David A. Coomes – University of Cambridge
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Using imaging spectroscopy to predict above- and below-ground carbon fluxes: A case study in alpine meadows
Presenting Author: Sandra M. Duran – University of Arizona University of Minnesota