Remote Sensing

Using historical spy satellite photographs and recent remote sensing data to identify high-conservation-value forests
High-conservation-value forests (HCVFs) are critically important for biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning, but they face …
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Changes in the grasslands of the Caucasus based on Cumulative Endmember Fractions from the full 1987–2019 Landsat record
Grasslands are important for global biodiversity, food security, and climate change analyses, which makes mapping and monitoring of …
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Characterizing forest disturbances across the Argentine Dry Chaco based on Landsat time series
Forest loss in the tropics affects large areas, but whereas full forest conversions are routinely assessed, forest degradation patters …
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European primary forest database v2.0
Primary forests, defined here as forests where the signs of human impacts, if any, are strongly blurred due to decades without forest …
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How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?
Land-use change is a root cause of the extinction crisis, but links between habitat change and biodiversity loss are not fully …
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Regional matters: On the usefulness of regional land‐cover datasets in times of global change
Unprecedented amounts of analysis-ready Earth Observation (EO) data, combined with increasing computational power and new algorithms, …
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Satellite-based habitat monitoring reveals long-term dynamics of deer habitat in response to forest disturbances
Disturbances play a key role in driving forest ecosystem dynamics, but how disturbances shape wildlife habitat across space and time …
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Survival and cause-specific mortality of European wildcat (Felis silvestris) across Europe
Humans have transformed most landscapes across the globe, forcing other species to adapt in order to persist in increasingly …
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Annual Landsat time series reveal post-Soviet changes in grazing pressure
Temperate grasslands are globally widespread, play an important role as carbon storage, and harbor unique biodiversity. Livestock …
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Cold War spy satellite images reveal long-term declines of a philopatric keystone species in response to cropland expansion
Agricultural expansion drives biodiversity loss globally, but impact assessments are biased towards recent time periods. This can lead …
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