Remote Sensing

Assessing niche overlap between domestic and threatened wild sheep to identify conservation priority areas
Populations of large ungulates are dwindling worldwide. This is especially so for wild sheep, which compete with livestock for forage, …
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Habitat metrics based on multi‐temporal Landsat imagery for mapping large mammal habitat
Up-to-date and fine-scale habitat information is essential for managing and conserving wildlife. Studies assessing wildlife habitat …
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Marmots from space: assessing population size and habitat use of a burrowing mammal using publicly available satellite images
Social, burrowing mammals such as prairie dogs, ground squirrels or marmots are keystone species in grassland ecosystems. Grasslands …
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Post-Soviet Land-Use Change Affected Fire Regimes on the Eurasian Steppes
Fire is an important disturbance in grassland ecosystems. Anthropogenic factors, especially land use, have drastically altered fire …
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Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco
World-wide, tropical savannas and dry forests are under increasing pressure from land use. The environmental impacts of agricultural …
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A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses
Land cover maps increasingly underlie research into socioeconomic and environmental patterns and processes, including global change. It …
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Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe
Assessments of land-system change have dominantly focused on conversions among broad land-use categories, whereas intensity changes …
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Combining satellite data and agricultural statistics to map grassland management intensity in Europe
The world’s grasslands, both natural and managed, provide food and many non-provisioning ecosystem services. Although most …
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From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: The relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals
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Agriculture is a key threat to biodiversity; however, its relationship with biodiversity patterns is understudied. Here, we evaluate …
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Global-scale patterns and determinants of cropping frequency in irrigation dam command areas
A growing human population and shifting consumption patterns increase the pressure on agricultural production systems. Reservoir-based …
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