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To evaluate how rapid environmental change reduces the reliability of static species distribution data and to examine how advanced remote-sensing technologies can monitor dynamic biodiversity shifts.

January 18, 2013Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Observing changing ecological diversity in the Anthropocene

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DSDavid SchimelNSF National Center for Atmospheric Research GAGregory P. AsnerSmithsonian Institution PMP. R. MoorcroftHarvard University Press

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Review demonstrates declining predictive power of static species distributions during rapid climate change, highlighting remote sensing of canopy traits to monitor dynamic ecosystem shifts.

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To evaluate how rapid environmental change reduces the reliability of static species distribution data and to examine how advanced remote-sensing technologies can monitor dynamic biodiversity shifts.
Evaluated the theoretical assumptions linking steady-state species geographic distributions to environmental sensitivity under rapid climate change.
Assessed emerging satellite remote-sensing capabilities for mapping structural and chemical canopy traits relative to traditional classification methods.
Predictive information inherent in species' spatial distributions deteriorates significantly as populations are pushed far from steady-state climatic conditions.
Advanced remote-sensing techniques resolve canopy chemical and structural traits, capturing substantially higher biological information content than conventional satellite land-cover classifications.

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Schimel et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a12875ea4bed3c7b167439b https://doi.org/10.1890/120111

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Review demonstrates declining predictive power of static species distributions during rapid climate change, highlighting remote sensing of canopy traits to monitor dynamic ecosystem shifts.

Observing changing ecological diversity in the Anthropocene

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Observing changing ecological diversity in the Anthropocene

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