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Contents
1 The Use of Remote Sensing to Enhance Biodiversity
Monitoring and Detection: A Critical Challenge
for the Twenty-First Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Jeannine Cavender-Bares, John A. Gamon, and Philip A. Townsend
2 Applying Remote Sensing to Biodiversity Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Anna K. Schweiger,
Jesús N. Pinto- Ledezma, and Jose Eduardo Meireles
3 Scaling Functional Traits from Leaves to Canopies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Shawn P. Serbin and Philip A. Townsend
4 The Laegeren Site: An Augmented Forest Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Felix Morsdorf, Fabian D. Schneider, Carla Gullien, Daniel
Kükenbrink, Reik Leiterer, and Michael E. Schaepman
5 Lessons Learned from Spectranomics: Wet Tropical Forests . . . . . . . 105
Roberta E. Martin
6 Remote Sensing for Early, Detailed, and Accurate Detection
of Forest Disturbance and Decline for Protection of Biodiversity . . . 121
Jennifer Pontius, Paul Schaberg, and Ryan Hanavan
7 Linking Leaf Spectra to the Plant Tree of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
José Eduardo Meireles, Brian O’Meara,
and Jeannine Cavender-Bares
8 Linking Foliar Traits to Belowground Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Michael Madritch, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Sarah E. Hobbie,
and Philip A. Townsend
9 Using Remote Sensing for Modeling and Monitoring
Species Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Jesús N. Pinto-Ledezma and Jeannine Cavender-Bares