GIS: biodiversity applications

Acevedo, M.A. and Restrepo, C. 2008: Land-cover and land-use change and its contribution to the large-scale organization of Puerto Rico's bird assemblages. Diversity and Distributions 14, 114-22.

Akcakaya, H.R. , Butchart, S.H.M. , Mace, G.M. , Stuart, S.N. and Hilton-Taylor, C. 2006: Use and misuse of the IUCN Red List Criteria in projecting climate change impacts on biodiversity. Global Change Biology 12, 2037-43.

Amarnath, G. , Murthy, M.S.R. , Britto, S.J. , Rajashekar, G. and Dutt, C.B.S. 2003: Diagnostic analysis of conservation zones using remote sensing and GIS techniques in wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats - an ecological hotspot, Tamil Nadu, India. Biodiversity and Conservation 12, 2331-59.

Anderson, B.J. 2008: Research in the journal Landscape Ecology, 1987-2005 . Landscape Ecology 23, 129-34.

Araujo, M.B. , Whittaker, R.J. , Ladle, R.J. and Erhard, M. 2005: Reducing uncertainty in projections of extinction risk from climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14, 529-38.

Aswani, S. and Lauer, M. 2006: Incorporating fishermen's local knowledge and behavior into geographical information systems (GIS) for designing marine protected areas in Oceania. Human Organization, 65, 81-102.

Austin, M. 2007: Species distribution models and ecological theory: a critical assessment and some possible new approaches. Ecological Modelling 200, 1-19.

Bailey, N. , Lee, J.T. and Thompson, S. 2006: Maximizing the natural capital benefits of habitat creation: spatially targeting native woodland using GIS. Landscape and Urban Planning 75, 227-43.

Balaguru, B. , Britto, S.J. , Nagamurugan, N. , Natarajan, D. and Soosairaj, S. 2006: Identifying conservation priority zones for effective management of tropical forests in Eastern Ghats of India. Biodiversity and Conservation 15, 1529-43.

Beaumont, L.J. , Pitman, A.J. , Poulsen, M. and Hughes, L. 2007: Where will species go? Incorporating new advances in climate modelling into projections of species distributions. Global Change Biology 13, 1368-85.

Bergen, K.M. , Gilboy, A.M. and Brown, D.G. 2007: Multi-dimensional vegetation structure in modeling avian habitat. Ecological Informatics 2, 9-22.

Berry, P.M. , Dawson, T.P. , Berry, P.A. and Harrison, P.A. 2002: SPECIES: a spatial evaluation of climate impacts on the envelope of species. Ecological Modelling 154, 289-300.

Best, B.D. , Halpin, P.N. , Fujioka, E. , Read, A.J. , Qian, S.S. , Hazen, L.J. and Schick, R.S. 2007: Geospatial web services within a scientific workflow: predicting marine mammal habitats in a dynamic environment. Ecological Informatics 2, 210-23.

Boschetti, M. , Boschetti, L. , Oliveri, S. , Casati, L. and Canova, I. 2007: Tree species mapping with airborne hyper-spectral MIVIS data: the Ticino Park study case. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28, 1251-61.

Botkin, D.B. , Saxe, H. , Araujo, M.B. , Betts, R. , Bradshaw, R.H.W. , Cedhagen, T. , Chesson, P. , Dawson, T.P. , Etterson, J.R. , Faith, D.P. , Ferrier, S. , Guisan, A. , Hansen, A.S. , Hilbert, D.W. , Loehle, C. , Margules, C. , New, M. , Sobel, M.J. and Stockwell, D.R.B. 2007: Forecasting the effects of global warming on biodiversity. Bioscience, 57, 227-36.

Boyd, D.S. and Danson, F.M. 2005: Satellite remote sensing of forest resources: three decades of research development. Progress in Physical Geography 29, 1-26.

Boyd, D.S. , Sanchez-Hernandez, C. and Foody, G.M. 2006: Mapping a specific class for priority habitats monitoring from satellite sensor data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 2631-44.

Brandtberg, T. 2002: Individual tree-based species classification in high spatial resolution aerial images of forests using fuzzy sets. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 132, 371-87.

Brandtberg, T. , Warner, T.A. , Landenberger, R.E. and McGraw, J.B. 2003: Detection and analysis of individual leaf-off tree crowns in small footprint, high sampling density lidar data from the eastern deciduous forest in North America. Remote Sensing of Environment 85, 290-303.

Brooker, R.W. , Travis, J.M.J. , Clark, E.J. and Dytham, C. 2007: Modelling species' range shifts in a changing climate: the impacts of biotic interactions, dispersal distance and the rate of climate change. Journal of Theoretical Biology 245, 59-65.

Campbell, D.J. , Lusch, D.P. , Smucker, T.A. and Wangui, E.E. 2005: Multiple methods in the study of driving forces of land use and land cover change: a case study of SE Kajiado District, Kenya . Human Ecology 33, 763-94.

Carleer, A. and Wolff, E. 2004: Exploitation of very high resolution satellite data for tree species identification. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 70, 135-40.

Carlson, K.M. , Asner, G.P. , Hughes, R.F. , Ostertag, R. and Martin, R.E. 2007: Hyperspectral remote sensing of canopy biodiversity in Hawaiian lowland rainforests. Ecosystems 10, 536-49.

Carvalho, J. , Soares, A. and Bio, A. 2006: Improving satellite images classification using remote and ground data integration by means of stochastic simulation. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 3375-86.

Cayuela, L. , Benayas, J.M.R. and Echeverria, C. 2006a: Clearance and fragmentation of tropical montane forests in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico (1975-2000). Forest Ecology and Management 226, 208-18.

Cayuela, L. , Benayas, J.M. , Justel, A. and Salas-Rey, J. 2006b: Modelling tree diversity in a highly fragmented tropical montane landscape. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15, 602-13.

Chapin, F.S. , Zavaleta, E.S. , Eviner, V.T. , Naylor, R.L. , Vitousek, P.M. , Reynolds, H.L. , Hooper, D.U. , Lavorel, S. , Sala, O.E. , Hobbie, S.E. , Mack, M.C. and Diaz, S. 2000: Consequences of changing biodiversity. Nature 405, 234-42.

Chowdhury, R.R. 2006: Landscape change in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico: modeling the driving forces of smallholder deforestation in land parcels . Applied Geography 26, 129-52.

Clark, D.B. , Castro, C.S. , Alvarado, L.D.A. and Read, J.M. 2004a: Quantifying mortality of tropical rain forest trees using high-spatial-resolution satellite data. Ecology Letters 7, 52-59.

Clark, D.B. , Read, J.M. , Clark, M.L. , Cruz, A.M. , Dotti, M.F. and Clark, D.A. , 2004b: Application of 1-M and 4-M resolution satellite data to ecological studies of tropical rain forests. Ecological Applications 14, 61-74.

Clawges, R. , Vierling, K. , Vierling, L. and Rowell, E. 2008: The use of airborne lidar to assess avian species diversity, density and occurrence in a pine/aspen forest. Remote Sensing of Environment 112, 2064-73.

Cohen, W.B. and Goward, S.N. 2004: Landsat's role in ecological applications of remote sensing . Bioscience 54, 535-45.

Comber, A. , Fisher, P. and Wadsworth, R. 2005: What is land cover? Environment and Planning B 32, 199-209.

D'Iorio, M. , Jupiter, S.D. , Cochran, S.A. and Potts, D.C. 2007: Optimizing remote sensing and GIS tools for mapping and managing the distribution of an invasive mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) on South Molokai, Hawaii. Marine Geodesy 30, 125-44.

Dorman, C.F. 2007: Effects of incorporating spatial autocorrelation into the analysis of species distribution data. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16, 129-38.

Duro, D. , Coops, N.C. , Wulder, M.A. and Han, T. 2007: Development of a large area biodiversity monitoring system driven by remote sensing, Progress in Physical Geography 31, 235-60.

Duveiller, G. , Defourny, P. , Desclee, B. and Mayaux, P. 2008: Deforestation in central Africa: estimates at regional, national and landscape levels by advanced processing of systematically-distributed Landsat extracts. Remote Sensing of Environment 112, 1969-81.

Echeverria, C. , Coomes, D.A. , Hall, M. and Newton, A.C. 2008: Spatially explicit models to analyze forest loss and fragmentation between 1976 and 2020 in southern Chile. Ecological Modelling 212, 439-49.

Eigenbrod, F. , Hecnar, S.J. and Fahrig, L. 2008: Accessible habitat: an improved measure of the effects of habitat loss and roads on wildlife populations. Landscape Ecology 23, 159-68.

Ellis, E.C. and Wang, H. 2006: Estimating area errors for fine-scale feature-based ecological mapping. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 4731-49.

Everitt, J.H. , Yang, C. , Helton, R.J. , Hartmann, L.H. and Davis, M.R. 2002: Remote sensing of giant salvinia in Texas waterways . Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 40, 11-16.

Falcucci, A. , Maiorano, L. and Boitani, L. 2007: Changes in land-use/land-cover patterns in Italy and their implications for biodiversity conservation. Landscape Ecology 22, 617-31.

Feeley, K.J. , Gillespie, T.W. and Terborgh, J.W. 2005: The utility of spectral indices from Landsat ETM+ for measuring the structure and composition of tropical dry forests. Biotropica 37, 508-19.

Flemons, P. , Guralnick, R. , Krieger, J. , Ranipeta, A. and Neufeld, D. 2007: A web-based GIS tool for exploring the world's biodiversity: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Mapping and Analysis Portal Application (GBIF-MAPA). Ecological Informatics 2, 49-60.

Foody, G.M. 2005: Mapping the richness and composition of British breeding birds from coarse spatial resolution satellite sensor imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26, 3943-56.

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Foody, G.M. and Cutler, M.E.J. 2003: Tree biodiversity in protected and logged Bornean tropical rain forests and its measurement by satellite remote sensing. Journal of Biogeography 30, 1053-66.

Foody, G.M. and Doan, H.T.X. 2007: Variability in soft classification prediction and its implications for sub-pixel scale change detection and super resolution mapping . Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 73, 923-33.

Foody, G.M. , Boyd, D.S. and Sanchez-Hernandez, C. 2007: Mapping a specific class with an ensemble of classifiers. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28, 1733-46. Fotheringham, A.S. , Brunsdon, C. and Charlton, M. 2002: Geographically weighted regression. The analysis of spatially varying relationships . Chichester: Wiley .

Franklin, S.E. 2000: Remote sensing for sustainable forest management . Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers .

Friedlander, A.M. , Brown, E.K. and Monaco, M.E. 2007: Coupling ecology and GIS to evaluate efficacy of marine protected areas in Hawaii. Ecological Applications 17, 715-30.

Fuller, R.M. , Devereux, B.J. , Gillings, S. , Hill, R.A. and Amable, G.S. 2007: Bird distributions relative to remotely sensed habitats in Great Britain: towards a framework for national modelling. Journal of Environmental Management 84, 586-605.

Garzon, M.B. , de Dios, R.S. and Ollero, H.S. 2007: Predictive modelling of tree species distributions on the Iberian Peninsula during the last glacial maximum and mid-Holocene . Ecography 30, 120-34.

Gaston, K.J. 2005: Biodiversity and extinction: species and people . Progress in Physical Geography 29, 239-47.

Geerling, G.W. , Labrador-Garcia, M. , Clevers, J.G.P.W. , Ragas, A.M.J. and Smits, A.J.M. 2007: Classification of floodplain vegetation by data fusion of spectral (CASI) and LiDAR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28, 4263-84.

Gillespie, T.W. 2005: Predicting woody-plant species richness in tropical dry forests: a case study from south Florida, USA. Ecological Applications 15, 27-37.

Goates, M.C. , Hatcha, K.A. and Eggett, D.L. 2007: The need to ground truth 30.5 m buffers: a case study of the boreal toad (Bufo boreas). Biological Conservation 138, 474-83.

Goetz, S. , Steinberg, D. , Dubayah, R. and Blair, B. 2007: Laser remote sensing of canopy habitat heterogeneity as a predictor of bird species richness in an eastern temperate forest, USA . Remote Sensing of Environment 108, 254-63.

Gontier, M. , Balfors, B. and Mortberg, U. 2006: Biodiversity in environmental assessment - current practice and tools for prediction. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 26, 268-86.

Goodwin, N. , Turner, R. and Merton, R. 2005: Classifying Eucalyptus forests with high spatial and spectral resolution imagery: an investigation of individual species and vegetation communities. Australian Journal of Botany 53, 337-45.

Gould, W. 2000: Remote sensing of vegetation, plant species richness, and regional biodiversity hotspots. Ecological Applications 10, 1861-70.

Graham, J. , Newman, G. , Jarnevich, C. , Shory, R. and Stohlgren, T.J. 2007: A global organism detection and monitoring system for non-native species. Ecological Informatics 2, 177-83.

Greene, S.L. , Minoura, T. , Steiner, J.J. and Pentacost, G. 2007: WebGRMS: Prototype software for web-based mapping of biological collections. Biodiversity and Conservation 16, 2611-25.

Griffiths, G.H. , Lee, J. and Eversham, B.C. 2000: Landscape pattern and species richness; regional scale analysis from remote sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21, 2685-704.

Haara, A. and Haarala, M. 2002: Tree species classification using semi-automatic delineation of trees on aerial images. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 17, 556-65.

Hamann, M.L. and Wang, T.L. 2006: Potential effects of climate change on ecosystem and tree species distribution in British Columbia. Ecology 87, 2773-86.

Hampe, A. 2004: Bioclimate envelope models: what they detect and what they hide. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13, 469-71.

Harris, G.M. , Jenkins, C.N. and Pimm, S.L. 2005: Refining biodiversity conservation priorities. Conservation Biology 19, 1957-68.

Harris, R.J. and Reed, J.M. 2002: Behavioral barriers to non-migratory movements of birds . Annales Zoologici Fennici 39, 275-90.

Heikkinen, R.K. , Luoto, M. , Araujo, M.B. , Virkkala, R. , Thuiller, W. and Sykes, M.T. 2006: Methods and uncertainties in bioclimatic envelope modelling under climate change. Progress in Physical Geography 30, 751-77.

Hilli, M. , Kuitunen, M.T. and Suhonen, J. 2007: The effect of land use change on the vascular plant species turnover in boreal lakes. Biodiversity and Conservation 16, 3951-62.

Hinsley, S.A. , Hill, R.A. , Bellamy, P.E. and Balzter, H. 2006: The application of lidar in woodland bird ecology: climate, canopy structure, and habitat quality. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72, 1399-406.

Holmgren, J. and Persson, A. 2003: Identifying species of individual trees using airborne laser scanner. Remote Sensing of Environment 90, 415-23.

Hurtt, G. , Xiao, X.M. , Keller, M. , Palace, M. , Asner, G.P. , Braswell, R. , Brondizio, E.S. , Cardoso, M. , Carvalho, C.J.R. , Fearon, M.G. , Guild, L. , Hagen, S. , Hetrick, S. , Moore, B. , Nobre, C. , Read, J.M. , Sa, T. , Schloss, A. , Vourlitis, G. and Wickel, A.J. 2003: IKONOS imagery for the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA). Remote Sensing of Environment 88, 111-27.

Janetos, A.C. and Justice, C.O. 2000: Land cover and global productivity: a measurement strategy for the NASA programme. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21, 1491-512.

Kakembo, V. , Palmer, A. and Rowntree, K. 2007: The use of high resolution camera imagery to characterise the distribution of Pteronia incana invader species in Ngqushwa (formerly Peddie) district, Eastern Cape, South Africa. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 2735-52.

Kameyama, S. , Fukishima, M. , Han, M. and Kaneki, M. 2007: Spatio-temporal changes on habitat potential of endangered freshwater fish in Japan. Ecological Informatics 2, 318-27.

Karnatak, H.C. , Saran, S. , Bhatia, K. and Roy, P.S. 2007: Multicriteria spatial decision analysis in web GIS environment . Geoinformatica 11, 407-29.

Karpouzi, V.S. , Watson, R. and Pauly, D. 2007: Modelling and mapping resource overlap between seabirds and fisheries on a global scale: a preliminary assessment. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 343, 87-99.

Kayhko, N. and Skanes, H. 2006: Change trajectories and key biotopes - assessing landscape dynamics and sustainability. Landscape and Urban Planning 75, 300-21.

Kerr, J.T. and Ostrovsky, M. 2003: From space to species: ecological applications for remote sensing. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18, 299-305.

Kerr, J.T. , Southwood, T.R.E. and Cihlar, J. 2001: Remotely sensed habitat diversity predicts butterfly species richness and community similarity in Canada. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98, 11365-70.

Kiage, L.M. , Liu, K.B. , Walker, N.D. , Lam, N. and Huh, O.K. 2007: Recent land-cover/use change associated with land degradation in the Lake Baringo catchment, Kenya, East Africa: evidence from Landsat TM and ETM. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28, 4285-309.

Knudby, A. , LeDrew, E. and Newman, C. 2007: Progress in the use of remote sensing for coral reef biodiversity studies. Progress in Physical Geography 31, 421-34.

Kral, K. and Pavlis, J. 2006: The first detailed land-cover map of Socotra Island by Landsat/ETM+ data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 27, 3239-50.

Landenberger, R.E. , McGraw, J.B. , Warner, T.A. and Brandtberg, T. 2003: Potential of digital color imagery for censusing Haleakala silverswords in Hawaii. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 69, 915-23.

Langford, W.T. , Gergel, S.E. , Dietterich, T.G. and Cohen, W. 2006: Map misclassification can cause large errors in landscape pattern indices: examples from habitat fragmentation. Ecosystems 9, 474-88.

Lassau, S.A. and Hochuli, D.F. 2007: Associations between wasp communities and forest structure: do strong local patterns hold across landscapes? Austral Ecology 32, 656-62.

Leimgruber, P. , Christen, C.A. and Laborderie, A. 2005: The impact of Landsat satellite monitoring on conservation biology. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 106, 81-101.

Leyequien, E. , Verrelst, J. , Slot, M. , Schaepman-Strub, G. , Heitkonig, I.M.A. and Skidmore, A. 2007: Capturing the fugitive: applying remote sensing to terrestrial animal distribution and diversity. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 9, 1-20.

Lindell, C.A. , Riffell, S.K. , Kaizer, S.A. , Battin, A.L. , Smith, M.L. and Sisk, T.D. 2007: Edge responses of tropical and temperate birds . Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119, 205-20.

Lopez-Lopez, P. , Garcia-Ripolles, C. , Aguilar, J. , Garcia-Lopez, F. and Verdejo, J. 2006: Modelling breeding habitat preferences of Bonelli's eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus) in relation to topography, disturbance, climate and land use at different spatial scales. Journal of Ornithology 147, 97-106.

Lopez-Lopez, P. , Garcia-Ripolles, C. , Soutullo, A. , Cadahia, L. and Urios, V. 2007: Are important bird areas and special protected areas enough for conservation?: the case of Bonelli's eagle in a Mediterranean area. Biodiversity and Conservation 16, 3755-80.

Lu, D. and Weng, Q. 2007: A survey of image classification methods and techniques for improving classification performance. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28, 823-70.

Lung, T. and Schaab, G. 2006:Assessingfragmentation and disturbance of west Kenyan rainforests by means of remotely sensed time series data and landscape metrics . African Journal of Ecology 44, 491-506.

Luoto, M. , Kuussaari, M. and Toivonen, T. 2002: Modelling butterfly distribution based on remote sensing data. Journal of Biogeography 29, 1027-37.

Luoto, M. , Poyry, J. , Heikkinen, R.K. and Saarinen, K. 2005: Uncertainty of bioclimate envelope models based on the geographical distribution of species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14, 575-84.

Luoto, M. , Virkkala, R. and Heikkinen, R.K. 2007: The role of land cover in bioclimatic models depends on spatial resolution. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16, 34-42.

Luoto, M. , Virkkala, R. , Heikkinen, R.K. and Rainio, K. 2004: Predicting bird species richness using remote sensing in boreal agricultural-forest mosaics. Ecological Applications 14, 1946-62.

Mang, W.G. , Hu, Y.M. , Chen, B.Y. , Tang, H. , Xu,C.G. , Qi, D.W. and Hu, J.C. 2007: Evaluation of habitat fragmentation of giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) on the north slopes of Daxiangling Mountains, Sichuan province, China. Animal Biology 57, 485-500.

Menon, S. , Pontius, R.G. , Rose, J. , Khan, M.L. and Bawa, K.S. 2001: Identifying conservation-priority areas in the tropics: a land-use change modeling approach. Conservation Biology 15, 501-12.

Millington, A.C. , Velez-Liendo, X.M. and Bradley, A.V. 2003: Scale dependence in multitemporal mapping of forest fragmentation in Bolivia: implications for explaining temporal trends in landscape ecology and applications to biodiversity conservation. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 57, 289-99.

Muldavin, E.H. , Neville, P. and Harper, G. 2001: Indices of grassland biodiversity in the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion derived from remote sensing. Conservation Biology 15, 844-55.

Munoz-Villers, L.E. and Lopez-Blanco, J. 2008: Land use/cover changes using Landsat TM/ETM images in a tropical and biodiverse mountainous area of central-eastern Mexico. International Journal of Remote Sensing 29, 71-93.

Murphy, P.N.C. , Ogilvie, J. , Connor, K. and Arpl, P.A. 2007: Mapping wetlands: a comparison of two different approaches for New Brunswick, Canada. Wetlands 27, 846-54.

Nagendra, H. 2001: Using remote sensing to assess biodiversity. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22, 2377-400.

Nagendra, H. , Tucker, C. , Carlson, L. , Southworth, J. , Karmacharya, M. and Karna, B. 2004: Monitoring parks through remote sensing: studies in Nepal and Honduras. Environmental Management 34, 748-60.

Nogues-Bravo, D. and Agirre, A. 2006: Modelling the spatial location of Dupont Lark Chersophilus duponti during the breeding session in the Ablitas Natura Network area (Navarra) . Ardeola 53, 55-68.

Oindo, B.O. and Skidmore, A.K. 2002: Interannual variability of NDVI and species richness in Kenya. International Journal of Remote Sensing 23, 285-98.

Osborne, P.E. , Foody, G.M. and Suarez-Seoane, S. 2007a: Non-stationarity and local approaches to modelling the distributions of wildlife. Diversity and Distributions 13, 313-23.

Osborne, P.E. , Suarez-Seoane, S. and Alonso, J.C. 2007b: Behavioural mechanisms that undermine species envelope models: the causes of patchiness in the distribution of great bustards Otis tarda in Spain. Ecography 30, 819-28.

Pearson, R.G. and Dawson, T.P. 2003: Predicting the impacts of climate change on the distribution of species: are bioclimate envelope models useful? Global Ecology and Biogeography 12, 361-71.

Pearson, R.G. , Thuiller, W. , Araujo, M.B. , Martinez-Meyer, E. , Brotons, L. , McClean, C. , Miles, L. , Segurado, P. , Dawson, T.P. and Lees, D.C. 2006: Model-based uncertainty in species range prediction . Journal of Biogeography 33, 1704-11.

Pennington, D.D. 2007: Exploratory modelling of forest disturbance scenarios in central Oregon using computational experiments in GIS. Ecological Informatics 2, 387-403.

Putz, F.E. , Blate, G.M. , Redford, K.H. , Fimbel, R. and Robinson, J. 2001: Tropical forest management and conservation of biodiversity: an overview. Conservation Biology 15, 7-20.

Ramsey, E.W. , Nelson, G.A. , Sapkota, S.K. , Seeger, E.B. and Martella, K.D. 2002: Mapping Chinese tallow with color-infrared photography . Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 68, 251-55.

Ranganathan, J. , Chan, K.M.A. and Daily, G.C. 2007: Satellite detection of bird communities in tropical countryside . Ecological Applications 17, 1499-510.

Read, J.M. , Clark, D.B. , Venticinque, E.M. and Moreira, M.P. 2003: Application of merged 1-m and 4-m resolution satellite data to research and management in tropical forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 40, 592-600.

Richards, J.A. 2005: Analysis of remotely sensed data: the formative decades and future. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 43, 422-32.

Ricketts, T. and Imhoff, M. 2003: Biodiversity, urban areas, and agriculture: locating priority ecoregions for conservation. Conservation Ecology 8(2), 1-15.

Rindfuss, R.R. , Walsh, S.J. , Turner, B.L. , Fox, J. and Mishra, V. 2004: Developing a science of land change: challenges and methodological issues. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101, 13976-81.

Rocchini, D. 2007: Distance decay in spectral space in analysing ecosystem beta-diversity. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28, 2635-44.

Rocchini, D. and Ricotta, C. 2007: Are landscapes as crisp as we may think? Ecological Modelling 204, 535-39.

Rocchini, D. , Perry, G.L.W. , Salerno, M. , Maccherini, S. and Chiarucci, A. 2006: Landscape change and the dynamics of open formations in a natural reserve. Landscape and Urban Planning 77, 167-77.

Rocchini, D. , Ricotta, C. and Chiarucci, A. 2007: Using satellite imagery to assess plant species richness: the role of multispectral systems. Applied Vegetation Science 10, 325-31.

Rouget, M. 2003: Measuring conservation value at fine and broad scales: implications for a diverse and fragmented region, the Agulhas Plain . Biological Conservation 112, 217-32.

Rouget, M. , Cowling, R.M. , Vlok, J. , Thompson, M. and Balmford, A. 2006: Getting the biodiversity intactness index right: the importance of habitat degradation data. Global Change Biology 12, 2032-36.

Roy, P.S. and Tomar, S. 2000: Biodiversity characterization at landscape level using geospatial modelling technique. Biological Conservation 95, 95-109.

Sanchez-Azofelfa, G.A. , Castro, K.L. , Rivard, B. , Kalascka, M.R. and Harriss, R.C. 2003: Remote sensing research priorities in tropical dry forest environments. Biotropica 35, 134-42.

Sanchez-Hernandez, C. , Boyd, D.S. and Foody, G.M. 2007: One-class classification for mapping a specific land-cover class: SVDD classification of fenland. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 45, 1061-73.

Santos, X. , Brito, J.C. , Sillero, N. , Pleguezuelos, J.M. , Llorente, G.A. , Fahd, S. and Parellada, X. 2006: Inferring habitat-suitability areas with ecological modelling techniques and GIS: a contribution to assess the conservation status of Vipera latastei. Biological Conservation 130, 416-25.

Saura, S. 2004: Effects of remote sensor spatial resolution and data aggregation on selected fragmentation indices. Landscape Ecology 19, 197-209.

Schmidtlein, S. and Sassin, J. 2004: Mapping of continuous floristic gradients in grasslands using hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 92, 126-38.

Scholes, R.J. and Biggs, R. 2005: A biodiversity intactness index. Nature 434, 45-49.

Schulman, L. , Ruokolainen, K. , Junikka, L. , Saaksjarvi, I.E. , Salo, M. , Juvonen, S.K. , Salo, J. and Higgins, M. 2007: Amazonian biodiversity and protected areas: do they meet ? Biodiversity and Conservation 16, 3011-51.

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