Developing fine-grained nationwide predictions of valuable forests using biodiversity indicator bird species.

ABSTRACT: The use of indicator species in forest conservation and management planning can facilitate enhanced preservation of biodiversity from the negative effects of forestry and other uses of land. However, this requires detailed and spatially comprehensive knowledge of the habitat preferences and distributions of selected focal indicator species. Unfortunately, due to limited resources for field surveys, only a small proportion of the occurrences of focal species is usually known. This shortcoming can be circumvented by using modeling techniques to predict the spatial distribution of suitable sites for the target species. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) and other remote sensing (RS) techniques have the potential to provide useful environmental data covering systematically large areas for these pur

SUBMITTER: Virkkala R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285730 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature