Biodiversity & Ecosystem Informatics - BDEI : Radar Remote Sensing of Habitat Structure for Biodiversity Informatics

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EIA-0131281Bergen, KathleenUniversity of Michigan - Ann ArborBDEI: Radar Remote Sensing of Habitat Structure for Biodiversity InformaticsProject SummaryMapping for biodiversity informatics requires information on habitat so that known speciesoccurrences may be extrapolated to maps of potential species occurrences. That is, given the conversionof known specimen locations into maps, how can we best predict where additional individuals orpopulations of that species may occur? In the context of landscape ecology, landscape structure - itsmulti-dimensional components - is a primary basis for habitat preferences of bird species. Vegetationspatial composition, heterogeneity, variability, and scale are among the variables contributing to thehorizontal structure, while vegetation height, layering, and biomass are examples of variables in thevolumetric dimension. Combined together these variables, and others, describe the real multi-dimensionalstructure of habitat.