Format:
1 online resource (594 pages)
ISBN:
9783030331573
Content:
Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: The Use of Remote Sensing to Enhance Biodiversity Monitoring and Detection: A Critical Challenge for the Twenty-First Century -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Why a Focus on Plant Diversity? -- 1.3 The Promise of Remote Sensing to Detect Plant Diversity -- 1.4 The Contents of the Book -- 1.5 The Origins of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Applying Remote Sensing to Biodiversity Science -- 2.1 What Is Biodiversity? -- 2.2 The Hierarchical Nature of Biodiversity -- 2.3 The Making of a Phenotype: Phylogeny, Genes, and the Environment -- 2.4 Patterns in Plant Diversity -- 2.5 Functional Traits, Community Assembly, and Evolutionary Legacy Effects on Ecosystems -- 2.5.1 Functional Traits and the Leaf Economic Spectrum -- 2.5.2 Plant Traits, Community Assembly, and Ecosystem Function -- 2.5.3 Phylogenetic, Functional, and Spectral Dispersion in Communities -- 2.6 Evolutionary Legacy Effects on Ecosystems -- 2.7 Quantifying Multiple Dimensions of Biodiversity -- 2.7.1 The Spatial Scale of Diversity: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Diversity -- 2.7.2 Taxonomic Diversity -- 2.7.3 Phylogenetic Diversity -- 2.7.4 Functional Diversity -- 2.7.5 Spectral Diversity -- 2.7.6 Beta Diversity Metrics -- 2.8 Links Between Plant Diversity, Other Trophic Levels, and Ecosystem Functions -- 2.9 Incorporating Spectra into Relationships Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function -- 2.10 Links Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services -- 2.11 Trade-Offs Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services -- References -- Chapter 3: Scaling Functional Traits from Leaves to Canopies -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Plant Traits and Functional Diversity -- 3.1.2 Historical Advances in Remote Sensing of Vegetation -- 3.1.3 Remote Sensing as a Tool for Scaling and Mapping Plant Traits.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030331566
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030331566
Language:
English
