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Chapter 13
A Range of Earth Observation Techniques
for Assessing Plant Diversity
Angela Lausch, Marco Heurich, Paul Magdon, Duccio Rocchini,
Karsten Schulz, Jan Bumberger, and Doug J. King
13.1 Understanding Plant Diversity with Remote Sensing
Stress, disturbance, and resource limitations such as anthropogenic changes to ecosystems all lead to changes in biodiversity and vegetation diversity (Cardinale et al.
2012) on different scales of biological organization as well as disturbances in the
interactions between trophic levels and ecosystem functions, impairing ecosystem
services such as pollination or soil fertility (Cord et al. 2017). Vegetation diversity
is multidimensional, multifactorial, and tremendously complex in time and space
(Lausch et al. 2018a). This level of complexity can only be fully understood when
A. Lausch (*)
Department Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
e-mail: angela.lausch@ufz.de
M. Heurich
Bavarian Forest National Park, Department of Conservation and Research,
Grafenau, Germany
Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Wildlife Management, University of Freiburg,
Freiburg, Germany
e-mail: marco.heurich@npv-bw.bayern.de
P. Magdon
Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, Georg-August-University Göttingen,
Göttingen, Germany
e-mail: pmagdon@gwdg.de
D. Rocchini
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum
University of Bologna, Italy
e-mail: duccio.rocchini@unibo.it
The original version of this chapter was revised. The correction to this chapter is available at
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33157-3_21
, Corrected Publication 2020
© 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_13
Chapter 13
A Range of Earth Observation Techniques
for Assessing Plant Diversity
Angela Lausch, Marco Heurich, Paul Magdon, Duccio Rocchini,
Karsten Schulz, Jan Bumberger, and Doug J. King
13.1 Understanding Plant Diversity with Remote Sensing
Stress, disturbance, and resource limitations such as anthropogenic changes to ecosystems all lead to changes in biodiversity and vegetation diversity (Cardinale et al.
2012) on different scales of biological organization as well as disturbances in the
interactions between trophic levels and ecosystem functions, impairing ecosystem
services such as pollination or soil fertility (Cord et al. 2017). Vegetation diversity
is multidimensional, multifactorial, and tremendously complex in time and space
(Lausch et al. 2018a). This level of complexity can only be fully understood when
A. Lausch (*)
Department Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
e-mail: angela.lausch@ufz.de
M. Heurich
Bavarian Forest National Park, Department of Conservation and Research,
Grafenau, Germany
Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Wildlife Management, University of Freiburg,
Freiburg, Germany
e-mail: marco.heurich@npv-bw.bayern.de
P. Magdon
Chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, Georg-August-University Göttingen,
Göttingen, Germany
e-mail: pmagdon@gwdg.de
D. Rocchini
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum
University of Bologna, Italy
e-mail: duccio.rocchini@unibo.it
The original version of this chapter was revised. The correction to this chapter is available at
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33157-3_21
, Corrected Publication 2020