Maximizing the value of forest restoration for tropical mammals by detecting three-dimensional habitat associations.

ABSTRACT: Tropical forest ecosystems are facing unprecedented levels of degradation, severely compromising habitat suitability for wildlife. Despite the fundamental role biodiversity plays in forest regeneration, identifying and prioritizing degraded forests for restoration or conservation, based on their wildlife value, remains a significant challenge. Efforts to characterize habitat selection are also weakened by simple classifications of human-modified tropical forests as intact vs. degraded, which ignore the influence that three-dimensional (3D) forest structure may have on species distributions. Here, we develop a framework to identify conservation and restoration opportunities across logged forests in Borneo. We couple high-resolution airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and camera tra

SUBMITTER: Deere NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7584909 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature