Forests, Monitoring and methods, Research summaries, Restoration

Applying remote sensing techniques to wide-scale vegetation inventories

Feature image © InnoTech Alberta Originally posted and adapted from The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Blog. Author Sydney Toni describes their latest study that explores a more cost-effective way of using remote sensing to better understand landscapes at larger scale for habitat monitoring and management. Ideally, the information we collect to manage wildlife habitat is many things: high-resolution, consistent and covering all areas of interest. The … Continue reading Applying remote sensing techniques to wide-scale vegetation inventories

AER | ESEOctober 17, 2023October 17, 20232 Comments

Careers, Monitoring and methods, Practitioners, Research summaries, Themed collections

Cheap microclimate sensor networks in the wild

Shortlisted for the Georgina Mace Prize 2023 Author Lina K. Mühlbauer summarises her team’s latest study exploring the use of Arduinos as a novel cost-effective method for microclimate monitoring in remote systems. Why measure microclimate? A great challenge of our times is to predict and mitigate the impacts of global climate change on the world’s ecosystems. To do so, a lot of information is needed … Continue reading Cheap microclimate sensor networks in the wild

AER | ESESeptember 1, 2023March 13, 2024Leave a comment

Forests, Restoration

How to reduce the financial risks associated with restoration efforts?

High variation in biodiversity recovery in restored forests at landscape scale can increase the risk associated with investments in restoration programmes. Crouzeilles et al. summarise their new approach, which aims to predict and map landscape variation in forest restoration success and thus reduce the unpredictability associated with financial risk. Investors operating in different businesses usually avoid high-risk transactions, which likely constrains the flow of financial resources … Continue reading How to reduce the financial risks associated with restoration efforts?