Combining remote sensing and tracking data to quantify species' cumulative exposure to anthropogenic change.

ABSTRACT: Identifying when and where organisms are exposed to anthropogenic change is crucial for diagnosing the drivers of biodiversity declines and implementing effective conservation measures. Accurately measuring individual-scale exposure to anthropogenic impacts across the annual cycle as they move across continents requires an approach that is both spatially and temporally explicit-now achievable through recent parallel advances in remote-sensing and individual tracking technologies. We combined 10 years of tracking data for a long-distance migrant, (common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus), with multi-dimensional remote-sensed spatial datasets encompassing thirteen relevant anthropogenic impacts (including infrastructure, hunting, habitat change, and climate change), to quantify mean hourly and total

SUBMITTER: Buchan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10946810 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature