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19 Prospects and Pitfalls for Spectroscopic Remote Sensing
of Biodiversity at the Global Scale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
David Schimel, Philip A. Townsend, and Ryan Pavlick
20 Epilogue: Toward a Global Biodiversity Monitoring System . . . . . . . 519
Gary N. Geller, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, John A. Gamon, Kyle
McDonald, Erika Podest, Phil A. Townsend, and Susan Ustin
Correction to: A Range of Earth Observation Techniques
for Assessing Plant Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C1
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
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