Bae, Soyeon; Levick, Shaun R.; Heidrich, Lea; Magdon, Paul; Leutner, Benjamin F.; Wöllauer, Stephan; Serebryanyk, Alla; Nauss, Thomas; Krzystek, Peter; Gossner, Martin M.; Schall, Peter; Heibl, Christoph; Bässler, Claus; Doerfler, Inken; Schulze, Ernst-Detlef; Krah, Franz-Sebastian; Culmsee, Heike; Jung, Kirsten; Heurich, Marco; Fischer, Markus; ... (2019). Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space. Nature communications, 10(1) Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41467-019-12737-x
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Recent progress in remote sensing provides much-needed, large-scale spatio-temporal information on habitat structures important for biodiversity conservation. Here we examine the potential of a newly launched satellite-borne radar system (Sentinel-1) to map the biodiversity of twelve taxa across five temperate forest regions in central Europe. We show that the sensitivity of radar to habitat structure is similar to that of airborne laser scanning (ALS), the current gold standard in the measurement of forest structure. Our models of different facets of biodiversity reveal that radar performs as well as ALS; median R² over twelve taxa by ALS and radar are 0.51 and 0.57 respectively for the first non-metric multidimensional scaling axes representing assemblage composition. We further demonstrate the promising predictive ability of radar-derived data with external validation based on the species composition of birds and saproxylic beetles. Establishing new area-wide biodiversity monitoring by remote sensing will require the coupling of radar data to stratified and standardized collected local species data.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) > Plant Ecology 08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Plant Sciences (IPS) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Fischer, Markus |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 580 Plants (Botany) |
ISSN: |
2041-1723 |
Publisher: |
Nature Publishing Group |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Peter Alfred von Ballmoos-Haas |
Date Deposited: |
04 Nov 2019 12:45 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:31 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1038/s41467-019-12737-x |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.134301 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/134301 |
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