Old-growth forests of southeast Europe and their relevance for forest management
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Old-growth forests of southeast Europe and their relevance for forest management
Assessing GEDI data fusions to map woodpecker distributions and biodiversity hotspots
Published in Environmental Research Letters
In forested systems, woodpecker species richness has been linked with songbird diversity, and identifying woodpecker biodiversity hotspots may contribute important information for conservation planning. The availability of global forest structure data via the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) instrument provides a new tool for examinin...
Monitoring canopy disturbances in Central Africa: from the ground to the sky
13. Climate action / 15. Life on land / 12. Responsible consumption and production
Soundscape mapping: understanding regional spatial and temporal patterns of soundscapes incorporating remotely-sensed pr...
Published in Environmental Research: Ecology
Increased environmental threats require proper monitoring of animal communities to understand where and when changes occur. Ecoacoustic tools that quantify natural acoustic environments use a combination of biophony (animal sound) and geophony (wind, rain, and other natural phenomena) to represent the natural soundscape and, in comparison to anthro...
Old-growth forests in the Dinaric Alps of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro: a continental hot-spot for research and bio...
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Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Introduction According to various censuses, Europe has less than 1.5 million ha of old-growth forests (OGF). Most of them are in the boreal zone, while their presence in the temperate zone is residual and fragmented.In the framework of the EU biodiversity strategy, it has been adopted a broad definition of OGF which includes late-seral forests and ...
Robust characterisation of forest structure from airborne laser scanning—A systematic assessment and sample workflow for...
Publication status: Published / Forests display tremendous structural diversity, shaping carbon cycling, microclimates and terrestrial habitats. An important tool for forest structure assessments are canopy height models (CHMs): high resolution maps of canopy height obtained using airborne laser scanning (ALS). CHMs are widely used for monitoring c...
Predation pressure by arthropods, birds, and rodents is interactively shaped by tree species richness, vegetation struct...
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Tree species richness, forest structure, and seasonal fluctuations between rainy and dry seasons can strongly affect trophic interactions in forest ecosystems, but the inter- and scale dependence of these variables remains unclear. Using artificial caterpillars (~18,000 replicates), we analyzed predation pressure by arthropods, birds, and rodents a...
Inferring alpha, beta, and gamma plant diversity across biomes with GEDI spaceborne lidar
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Published in Environmental Research: Ecology
Biodiversity-structure relationships (BSRs), which describe the correlation between biodiversity and three-dimensional forest structure, have been used to map spatial patterns in biodiversity based on forest structural attributes derived from lidar. However, with the advent of spaceborne lidar like the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)...
Surface Energy Dynamics and Canopy Structural Properties in Intact and Disturbed Forests in the Southern Amazon
The Brazilian Amazon has been a focus of land development with large swaths of forests converted to agriculture. Forest degradation by selective logging and fires has accompanied the agricultural frontier and has resulted in significant impacts on Amazonian ecosystems. Changes in forest structure resulting from forest disturbances have large impact...
Evaluating GEDI data fusions for continuous characterizations of forest wildlife habitat
Published in Frontiers in Remote Sensing
Continuous characterizations of forest structure are critical for modeling wildlife habitat as well as for assessing trade-offs with additional ecosystem services. To overcome the spatial and temporal limitations of airborne lidar data for studying wide-ranging animals and for monitoring wildlife habitat through time, novel sampling data sources, i...
