Combining long-term land cover time series and field observations for spatially explicit predictions on changes in tropical forest biodiversity

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-40

  Lung, Tobias ^a,d   Peters, Marcell K ^b,e   Farwig, Nina ^c,f   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^c,g   Schaab, Gertrud ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^g BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EXTRAPOLATION; MAPS; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES;

FIELD OBSERVATIONS; LANDSAT SATELLITE; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; SIMULTANEOUS AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; STATISTICAL MODELLING;

FORECASTING;

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; DEFORESTATION; GIS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TROPICAL FOREST;

AIR CRAFT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORECASTS; IMAGES; MAPS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

KAKAMEGA FOREST; KENYA; WESTERN PROVINCE [KENYA];

AVES; DORYLUS WILVERTHI;

EID: 82155171347     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.527867     Document Type: Article

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