Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing.

ABSTRACT:

Issue

Geodiversity (i.e., the variation in Earth's abiotic processes and features) has strong effects on biodiversity patterns. However, major gaps remain in our understanding of how relationships between biodiversity and geodiversity vary over space and time. Biodiversity data are globally sparse and concentrated in particular regions. In contrast, many forms of geodiversity can be measured continuously across the globe with satellite remote sensing. Satellite remote sensing directly measures environmental variables with grain sizes as small as tens of metres and can therefore elucidate biodiversity-geodiversity relationships across scales.

Evidence

We show how one important geodiversity variable, elevation, relates to alpha, beta and gamma taxonomic diversity of trees acro

SUBMITTER: Zarnetske PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6559161 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature