Light detection and ranging explains diversity of plants, fungi, lichens, and bryophytes across multiple habitats and large geographic extent.

ABSTRACT: Effective planning and nature management require spatially accurate and comprehensive measures of the factors important for biodiversity. Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) can provide exactly this, and is therefore a promising technology to support future nature management and related applications. However, until now studies evaluating the potential of LIDAR for this field have been highly limited in scope. Here, we assess the potential of LIDAR to estimate the local diversity of four species groups in multiple habitat types, from open grasslands and meadows over shrubland to forests and across a large area (~43,000 km² ), providing a crucial step toward enabling the application of LIDAR in practice, planning, and policy-making. We assessed the relationships between the specie

SUBMITTER: Moeslund JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6852470 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature