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Chapter 10
Remote Sensing of Geodiversity as a Link
to Biodiversity
Sydne Record, Kyla M. Dahlin, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Quentin D. Read,
Sparkle L. Malone, Keith D. Gaddis, John M. Grady, Jennifer Costanza,
Martina L. Hobi, Andrew M. Latimer, Stephanie Pau, Adam M. Wilson,
Scott V. Ollinger, Andrew O. Finley, and Erin Hestir
10.1 Conserving Nature’s Stage
Biodiversity is essential for ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services (Chapin
et al. 1997; Yachi and Loreau 1999). Yet rapid global change is altering biodiversity
and endangering its vital functions, with human-caused habitat deterioration being
the number one cause of biodiversity loss (Sala et al. 2000). In addition, climate
change is directly affecting individual species abundances and distributions and
indirectly affecting species via biotic interactions (Walther et al. 2002). When
combined, these effects lead to novel ecological communities for which there are no
modern analogs (Williams and Jackson 2007). Although species have continually
experienced shifts in climate, the recent rate of temperature change is more rapid
than in any other timeframe in the past 10,000 years (Marcott et al. 2013), and temperatures are expected to rise even faster in the near future (Smith et al. 2015). In
light of these rapid global changes, a major challenge for biodiversity scientists is to
generate robust statistical models that describe and predict biodiversity in space and
S. Record (*)
Department of Biology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
e-mail: srecord@brynmawr.edu
K. M. Dahlin
Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, USA
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, USA
P. L. Zarnetske · Q. D. Read
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, USA
Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
© The Author(s) 2020
J. Cavender-Bares et al. (eds.), Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33157-3_10
Chapter 10
Remote Sensing of Geodiversity as a Link
to Biodiversity
Sydne Record, Kyla M. Dahlin, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Quentin D. Read,
Sparkle L. Malone, Keith D. Gaddis, John M. Grady, Jennifer Costanza,
Martina L. Hobi, Andrew M. Latimer, Stephanie Pau, Adam M. Wilson,
Scott V. Ollinger, Andrew O. Finley, and Erin Hestir
10.1 Conserving Nature’s Stage
Biodiversity is essential for ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services (Chapin
et al. 1997; Yachi and Loreau 1999). Yet rapid global change is altering biodiversity
and endangering its vital functions, with human-caused habitat deterioration being
the number one cause of biodiversity loss (Sala et al. 2000). In addition, climate
change is directly affecting individual species abundances and distributions and
indirectly affecting species via biotic interactions (Walther et al. 2002). When
combined, these effects lead to novel ecological communities for which there are no
modern analogs (Williams and Jackson 2007). Although species have continually
experienced shifts in climate, the recent rate of temperature change is more rapid
than in any other timeframe in the past 10,000 years (Marcott et al. 2013), and temperatures are expected to rise even faster in the near future (Smith et al. 2015). In
light of these rapid global changes, a major challenge for biodiversity scientists is to
generate robust statistical models that describe and predict biodiversity in space and
S. Record (*)
Department of Biology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
e-mail: srecord@brynmawr.edu
K. M. Dahlin
Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, USA
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, USA
P. L. Zarnetske · Q. D. Read
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, USA
Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA