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Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing

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 sp...

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Autores principales: Zarnetske, Phoebe L., Read, Quentin D., Record, Sydne, Gaddis, Keith D., Pau, Stephanie, Hobi, Martina L., Malone, Sparkle L., Costanza, Jennifer, M. Dahlin, Kyla, Latimer, Andrew M., Wilson, Adam M., Grady, John M., Ollinger, Scott V., Finley, Andrew O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31217748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12887
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author Zarnetske, Phoebe L.
Read, Quentin D.
Record, Sydne
Gaddis, Keith D.
Pau, Stephanie
Hobi, Martina L.
Malone, Sparkle L.
Costanza, Jennifer
M. Dahlin, Kyla
Latimer, Andrew M.
Wilson, Adam M.
Grady, John M.
Ollinger, Scott V.
Finley, Andrew O.
author_facet Zarnetske, Phoebe L.
Read, Quentin D.
Record, Sydne
Gaddis, Keith D.
Pau, Stephanie
Hobi, Martina L.
Malone, Sparkle L.
Costanza, Jennifer
M. Dahlin, Kyla
Latimer, Andrew M.
Wilson, Adam M.
Grady, John M.
Ollinger, Scott V.
Finley, Andrew O.
author_sort Zarnetske, Phoebe L.
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description 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 across spatial scales. We use elevation from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and c. 16,000 Forest Inventory and Analysis plots to quantify spatial scaling relationships between biodiversity and geodiversity with generalized linear models (for alpha and gamma diversity) and beta regression (for beta diversity) across five spatial grains ranging from 5 to 100 km. We illustrate different relationships depending on the form of diversity; beta and gamma diversity show the strongest relationship with variation in elevation. CONCLUSION: With the onset of climate change, it is more important than ever to examine geodiversity for its potential to foster biodiversity. Widely available satellite remotely sensed geodiversity data offer an important and expanding suite of measurements for understanding and predicting changes in different forms of biodiversity across scales. Interdisciplinary research teams spanning biodiversity, geoscience and remote sensing are well poised to advance understanding of biodiversity–geodiversity relationships across scales and guide the conservation of nature.
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spelling pubmed-65591612019-06-17 Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing Zarnetske, Phoebe L. Read, Quentin D. Record, Sydne Gaddis, Keith D. Pau, Stephanie Hobi, Martina L. Malone, Sparkle L. Costanza, Jennifer M. Dahlin, Kyla Latimer, Andrew M. Wilson, Adam M. Grady, John M. Ollinger, Scott V. Finley, Andrew O. Glob Ecol Biogeogr Ecological Soundings 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 across spatial scales. We use elevation from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and c. 16,000 Forest Inventory and Analysis plots to quantify spatial scaling relationships between biodiversity and geodiversity with generalized linear models (for alpha and gamma diversity) and beta regression (for beta diversity) across five spatial grains ranging from 5 to 100 km. We illustrate different relationships depending on the form of diversity; beta and gamma diversity show the strongest relationship with variation in elevation. CONCLUSION: With the onset of climate change, it is more important than ever to examine geodiversity for its potential to foster biodiversity. Widely available satellite remotely sensed geodiversity data offer an important and expanding suite of measurements for understanding and predicting changes in different forms of biodiversity across scales. Interdisciplinary research teams spanning biodiversity, geoscience and remote sensing are well poised to advance understanding of biodiversity–geodiversity relationships across scales and guide the conservation of nature. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-02-27 2019-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6559161/ /pubmed/31217748 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12887 Text en © 2019 The Authors Global Ecology and Biogeography Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Ecological Soundings
Zarnetske, Phoebe L.
Read, Quentin D.
Record, Sydne
Gaddis, Keith D.
Pau, Stephanie
Hobi, Martina L.
Malone, Sparkle L.
Costanza, Jennifer
M. Dahlin, Kyla
Latimer, Andrew M.
Wilson, Adam M.
Grady, John M.
Ollinger, Scott V.
Finley, Andrew O.
Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing
title Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing
title_full Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing
title_fullStr Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing
title_full_unstemmed Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing
title_short Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing
title_sort towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing
topic Ecological Soundings
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31217748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12887
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