Remote sensing of plant biodiversity
Chapter1. The use of remote sensing to enhance biodiversity monitoring & detection—a critical challenge for the 21st century. - Chapter2. Applying Remote Sensing to Biodiversity Science -- Chapter3. Scaling Functional Traits from Leaves to Canopies -- Chapter4. The Laegeren Site: An Augmented Forest Laboratory -- Chapter5. Lessons Learned from Spectranomics: Wet Tropical Forests -- Chapter6. Remote Sensing for Early, Detailed, and Accurate Detection of Forest Disturbance and Decline for Protection of Biodiversity -- Chapter7. Linking Leaf Spectra to the Plant Tree of Life -- Chapter8. Linking Foliar Traits to Belowground Processes -- Chapter9. Linking Foliar Traits to Belowground Processes -- Chapter9. Using Remote Sensing for Modeling and Monitoring Species Distributions -- Chapter10. Remote Sensing of Geodiversity as a Link to Biodiversity -- Chapter11. Predicting Patterns of Plant Diversity and Endemism in the Tropics Using Remote Sensing Data: A Study Case From the Brazilian Atlantic Forest -- Chapter12. Remote Detection of Invasive Alien Species -- Chapter13. A Range of Earth Observation Techniques for Assessing Plant Diversity -- Chapter14. How the Optical Properties of Leaves Modify the Absorption and Scattering of Energy and Enhance Leaf Functionality -- Chapter15. Spectral Field Campaigns: Planning and Data Collection -- Chapter16. Consideration of Scale in Remote Sensing of Biodiversity -- Chapter17. Integrating Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, and Auxiliary Information for the Study of Ecosystem Functioning and Conservation at Large Spatial Scales -- Chapter18. Essential Biodiversity Variables: Integrating in Situ Observations and Remote Sensing Through Modeling -- Chapter19. Prospects and pitfalls for spectroscopic remote sensing of biodiversity at the global scale -- Chapter20. Epilogue – Towards a Global Biodiversity Monitoring System. .