A5045069762- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Agricultural and Environmental Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Environmental Quality and Pollution
- UAV Applications and Optimization
- Marine and coastal plant biology
Zoological Society of London
2015-2024
University of Exeter
2020-2024
International Union for Conservation of Nature
2024
University College London
2015-2018
Deakin University
2017-2018
Google (United Kingdom)
2015
With the growing recognition that effective action on climate change will require a combination of emissions reductions and carbon sequestration, protecting, enhancing restoring natural sinks have become political priorities. Mangrove forests are considered some most carbon-dense ecosystems in world with stored soil. In order for mangrove to be included mitigation efforts, knowledge spatial distribution soil stocks critical. Current global estimates do not capture enough finer scale...
Abstract Societal, economic and scientific interests in knowing where biodiversity is, how it is faring what can be done to efficiently mitigate further loss the associated of ecosystem services are at an all‐time high. So far, however, monitoring has primarily focused on structural compositional features ecosystems despite growing evidence that functions key elucidating mechanisms through which biological diversity generates humanity. This gap traced current lack consensus exactly track...
Mangroves provide vital climate change mitigation and adaptation (CCMA) ecosystem services (ES), yet have suffered extensive tropics-wide declines. To mitigate losses, rehabilitation is high on the conservation agenda. However, relative functionality ES delivery of rehabilitated mangroves in different intertidal locations rarely assessed. In a case study from Panay Island, Philippines, using field- satellite-derived methods, we assess carbon stocks coastal protection potential low-intertidal...
Mangrove forests are found on sheltered coastlines in tropical, subtropical, and some warm temperate regions. These support unique biodiversity provide a range of benefits to coastal communities, but as result large-scale conversion for aquaculture, agriculture, urbanization, mangroves considered increasingly threatened ecosystems. Scientific advances have led accurate comprehensive global datasets mangrove extent, structure, condition, these can evaluation ecosystem services stimulate...
Seagrass meadows support key ecosystem services, via provision of food directly for herbivores, and indirectly to their predators. The importance herbivores in seagrass has been well-documented, but the links between webs services have not previously made explicit. Herbivores interact with - including carbon sequestration, cultural values, coastal protection. Interactions can be positive or negative depend on a range factors herbivore identity grazing type intensity. There unintended...
Anthropogenic and natural disturbances can cause degradation of ecosystems, reducing their capacity to sustain biodiversity provide ecosystem services. Understanding the extent is critical for estimating risks yet there are few existing methods map at scale none using freely available satellite data mangrove ecosystems. In this study, we developed a quantitative classification model earth observation data. Crucially, conceptual was established identify suitable remote sensing variables that...
Droughts can have a severe impact on the dynamics of animal populations, particularly in semi-arid and arid environments where herbivore populations are strongly limited by resource availability. Increased drought intensity under projected climate change scenarios be expected to reduce viability such yet this has seldom been quantified. In study, we aim fill gap assess how predicted worsening droughts over 21(st) century is likely population twelve ungulate species occurring habitats. Our...
For Critically Endangered “species of extreme rarity,” there is an urgent need to clarify the potential survival remnant populations. Such populations can be difficult detect using standard field methods. Local ecological knowledge (LEK) represents important alternative source information, but anecdotal reports rare or possibly extinct species contain uncertainty and error. The Hainan gibbon ( Nomascus hainanus ), world's rarest primate species, confirmed only survive as a tiny population in...
Summary 1. Essential Biodiversity Variable, Natural Capital, Indicator and Ecosystem Service are four concepts that underpin the most popular frameworks currently considered for helping to coordinate structure biodiversity monitoring efforts worldwide. Satellite Remote Sensing ( SRS ) has considerable potential inform these initiatives. To date, however, discussions on role of in supporting have mostly evolved independently; tend be led by different groups; sometimes target slightly scales;...
Abstract Home ranges capture a fundamental aspect of animal ecology, resulting from interactions between metabolic demands and resource availability. Yet, the understanding their emergence is currently limited by lack consideration covariation intrinsic extrinsic drivers. We analysed intraspecific home‐range size ( HRS ) variation with respect to life histories remotely sensed proxies dynamics for 21 Carnivora species. Our best model explained over half observed variability in across...
Abstract Coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves, provide key ecosystem services for climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, combined anthropogenic activities climatic change‐driven sea level rise ( SLR ) pose a severe threat to their global persistence, the continued delivery of these services. Mangrove vulnerability depends upon capacity both resilience (landward migration) resistance (maintained functioning with existing distribution), which are in turn hindered by extractive...
Deserts are among the most poorly monitored and understood biomes in world, with evidence suggesting that their biodiversity is declining fast. Oil exploration exploitation can constitute an important threat to fragmented remnant desert biodiversity, yet little known about where how intensively such developments taking place. This lack of information hinders local efforts adequately buffer protect wildlife against encroachment from anthropogenic activity. Here, we investigate use freely...
In 2014, Wiley and the Zoological Society of London launched Remote Sensing in Ecology Conservation, an open-access journal that aims to support communication collaboration among experts remote sensing, ecology conservation science. sensing was from start understood as acquisition information about object or phenomenon through a device is not physical contact with object, thus including camera traps, field spectrometry, terrestrial aquatic acoustic sensors, aerial satellite monitoring well...
Abstract We are in the midst of a revolution satellite technology, with rapid development and advancement small satellites (or SmallSats, i.e., <180 kg). Here, we review opportunities challenges that such technology might afford field conservation ecology. SmallSat constellations may yield higher resolutions than those currently available to scientists practitioners, increasing improve environmental‐monitoring animal‐tracking capabilities. They cut access costs end users, by reducing...
Abstract Quantifying trends in ecosystem extent is essential to understanding the status of ecosystems. Estimates loss are widely used track progress toward conservation targets, monitor deforestation, and identify ecosystems undergoing rapid change. Satellite remote sensing has become an important source information for estimating these variables. Despite regular acquisition satellite data, many studies change use only static snapshots, which ignores considerable amounts data. This approach...
Opportunities to boost climate change mitigation and adaptation (CCMA) sustainable conservation financing may lie in enhancing blue carbon sequestration, particularly developing nations where coastal ecosystems are extensive international markets offer comparatively attractive payments for environmental stewardship. While is receiving increased global attention, few credit-generating projects operational, due low credit-buyer incentives with uncertainty creditable emissions reductions high...
Abstract Climate change poses a growing risk to global biodiversity. To prioritize conservation efforts, identification of the species and ecosystems most at from further changes in climatic conditions is critically needed. Although frameworks are available assess vulnerability climate change, we still lack an easily implementable, ecosystem‐level perspective inform landscape management. Here, introduce novel, spatially explicit framework able generate assessments ecosystem scale apply it...
Researchers are increasingly studying carbon (C) storage by natural ecosystems for climate mitigation, including coastal ‘blue carbon’ ecosystems. Unfortunately, little guidance on how to achieve robust, cost-effective estimates of blue C stocks inform inventories exists. We use existing data (492 cores) develop recommendations the sampling effort required robust C. Using a broad-scale, spatially explicit dataset from Victoria, Australia, we applied multiple spatial methods provide...
Abstract Aim Global environmental change, through anthropogenic activities and climatic changes, is promoting broad‐scale alterations to energy availability across the world's ecosystems. However, spatio‐temporal variation in available a key driver of animals' life histories, movement patterns abundance, thus shaping global distribution individuals species. As such, there an increasing need understand how where changes will produce greatest impacts on animal ecology, ultimately biodiversity....
Abstract Deserts are among the most poorly understood biomes in world, currently experiencing highest rates of environmental change and biodiversity loss. A major controlling factor on ecology distribution vegetation animal populations these harsh arid systems is abundance water sources. Accordingly, extraction redistribution at artificial points across desert landscapes can constitute a real threat to local ecosystem dynamics. challenge tackling this potential identifying changes through...