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From local spectral species to global spectral communities: A benchmark for ecosystem diversity estimate by remote sensing

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ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101195

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Biodiversity; Ecological informatics; Modelling; Remote sensing; Satellite imagery

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  1. H2020 project SHOWCASE
  2. H2020 COST Action [CA17134, CA15212]
  3. Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-17-CE32-0001]
  4. French Space Agency (CNES)
  5. Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-17-CE32-0001] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)

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Real-time and accurate ecosystem and biodiversity assessments are crucial in the face of unprecedented changes in global biodiversity. Utilizing remote sensing and spectral information can provide an efficient way to estimate biodiversity, allowing for a faster and more reliable assessment in large areas.
In the light of unprecedented change in global biodiversity, real-time and accurate ecosystem and biodiversity assessments are becoming increasingly essential. Nevertheless, estimation of biodiversity using ecological field data can be difficult for several reasons. For instance, for very large areas, it is challenging to collect data that provide reliable information. Some of these restrictions in Earth observation can be avoided through the use of remote sensing approaches. Various studies have estimated biodiversity on the basis of the Spectral Variation Hypothesis (SVH). According to this hypothesis, spectral heterogeneity over the different pixel units of a spatial grid reflects a higher niche heterogeneity, allowing more organisms to coexist. Recently, the spectral species concept has been derived, following the consideration that spectral heterogeneity at a landscape scale corresponds to a combination of subspaces sharing a similar spectral signature. With the use of high resolution remote sensing data, on a local scale, these subspaces can be identified as separate spectral entities, the so called spectral species. Our approach extends this concept over wide spatial extents and to a higher level of biological organization. We applied this method to MODIS imagery data across Europe. Obviously, in this case, a spectral species identified by MODIS is not associated to a single plant species in the field but rather to a species assemblage, habitat, or ecosystem. Based on such spectral information, we propose a straightforward method to derive a-(local relative abundance and richness of spectral species) and fl-diversity (turnover of spectral species) maps over wide geographical areas.

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