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Harnessing essential biodiversity variables and remote sensing of earth observations - synthesizing biodiversity insights
There are major gaps remaining in understanding of species distribution and how relationships between biodiversity, environment and scales change...
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The safety degree evaluation of marine biodiversity in China
With the rapid development of the marine economy in China, the security of marine biodiversity has been threatened. Biodiversity safety degree...
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Dieback intensity but not functional and taxonomic diversity indices predict forest productivity in different management conditions: Evidence from a semi-arid oak forest ecosystem
The relationships between different aspects of diversity (taxonomic, structural and functional) and the aboveground biomass (AGB) as a major...
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Relationship Between Built Environment and Biodiversity in High-Density Metropolitan Areas: The Case of Shanghai, China
ShanghaiShanghai is a metropolitan city with the highest urbanizationUrbanization rate in China. It is also a coastal city with rich...
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Estimation of Environmental Flow Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Conservation of Fish Biodiversity
The cumulative and detailed knowledge about the present and past ecological systems is “traditional ecological knowledge” (TEK). TEK in water is to...
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Climate and topography regulate the spatial pattern of soil salinization and its effects on shrub community structure in Northwest China
Soil salinization may affect biodiversity and species composition, leading to changes in the plant community structure. However, few studies have...
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Remote Sensing in Sierra Nevada: From Abiotic Processes to Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions and Services
During the last decades, remote sensing has changed the way humans observe and understand the Earth system. The repeated and increasingly detailed...
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Soil Salinity Detection Using Salinity Indices from Landsat 8 Satellite Image at Rampal, Bangladesh
Soil salinization has now become a hazardous threat to the environment in context to climate change. The low-lying southwest region of Bangladesh has...
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Biodiversity and nature conservation in island ecosystems: spatiotemporal changes in Socotra archipelago (Yemen)
Island ecosystems are particularly important to biodiversity around as they host a large number of floral communities. Socotra Island contains a...
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The Paleobiodiversity of the Famennian Ammonoid Genera on the Northern Margin of Gondwana: A Case from the Western Sahara of Algeria
The Devonian is a cardinal stratigraphic period of the Paleozoic era due to major faunal, environmental, climatic and atmospheric changes. It...
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Markers of Climate Change: Analysing Extreme Temperature Indices Over the Himalayan Mountains and Adjoining Punjab Plains
Temperature as a central element of weather and climate exerts a strong influence on environment at every spatial and temporal scale. Long-term...
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Assessing vegetation health in dry tropical forests of Rajasthan using remote sensing
The rich vegetation areas with a variety of biodiversity are designated under categories of protected areas. Protected areas on Earth are the biomes...
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Unravelling Regional Geodiversity: A Grid-Map** Approach to Quantify Geodiversity in the uThukela District, KwaZulu-Natal
The interpretation and integrated application of geodiversity has undergone significant theoretical and applied undulation to establish its own...
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Heterogeneity-diversity Relationships in Natural Areas of Yunnan, China
Understanding regional environmental heterogeneity (EH) and biodiversity relationships (heterogeneity-diversity relationships: HDRs) is the first...
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Meteorological and Agricultural Drought Monitoring Using Geospatial Techniques
Droughts occur due to scarcity of water. Meteorological drought is result of the impacts of lower than usually occurring rains and the agricultural...
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Spatially Explicit Scenario Analysis of Habitat Quality in a Tropical Semi-arid Zone: Case Study of the Sokoto–Rima Basin
Global biodiversity has been steadily dwindling since the turn of the twentieth century. The semi-arid ecological zone has also been decimated to...
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Do aeolian deposits and sand encroachment intensity shape patterns of vegetation diversity and plant functional traits in desert pavements?
The effects of sand encroachment on composition, diversity, and functional patterns of vegetation in drylands are rarely studied, and yet addressing...
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Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Forest Health Dynamics of Sikkim Using MODIS Satellite Data by AHP Method and Geospatial Techniques
Forest is the most imperative piece of the environment to maintain ecological balance in any region and it also support the economy of the...
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Landscape Planning and Fragmentation: A Method for Classifying Rural Landscapes
In the last decades, safeguard and management of environment and landscape have been acknowledged as priority to recover degraded habitats and reduce...
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Optimization of Urban Planning and Design to Support Biodiversity in Multiple Habitats
Based on the research results in Chaps. 3 and 4 , referring to the six...