Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space

• Published in: Nature ecology & evolution Vol. 5; no. 7; pp. 896 - 906
• Main Authors: Skidmore, Andrew K., Coops, Nicholas C., Neinavaz, Elnaz, Ali, Abebe, Schaepman, Michael E., Paganini, Marc, Kissling, W. Daniel, Vihervaara, Petteri, Darvishzadeh, Roshanak, Feilhauer, Hannes, Fernandez, Miguel, Fernández, Néstor, Gorelick, Noel, Geijzendorffer, Ilse, Heiden, Uta, Heurich, Marco, Hobern, Donald, Holzwarth, Stefanie, Muller-Karger, Frank E., Van De Kerchove, Ruben, Lausch, Angela, Leitão, Pedro J., Lock, Marcelle C., Mücher, Caspar A., O’Connor, Brian, Rocchini, Duccio, Roeoesli, Claudia, Turner, Woody, Vis, Jan Kees, Wang, Tiejun, Wegmann, Martin, Wingate, Vladimir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2021; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/158/670; 704/158; Benchmarking; Biodiversity; Biological and Physical Anthropology; Biological effects; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Ecological function; Ecology; Ecosystem; Ecosystem structure; Evolutionary Biology; Interpolation; Knowledge acquisition; Life Sciences; Monitoring; Paleontology; Perspective; Remote observing; Remote sensing; Satellites; Structure-function relationships; Zoology

Monitoring global biodiversity from space through remotely sensing geospatial patterns has high potential to add to our knowledge acquired by field observation. Although a framework of essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) is emerging for monitoring biodiversity, its poor alignment with remote sen...