Remote Sensing of Rangeland Biodiversity

Title
Remote Sensing of Rangeland Biodiversity
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Hunt, E Raymond
Wang, Cuizhen
Booth, D Terrance
Cox, Samuel E
Kumar, Lalit
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9205-756X
Email: lkumar@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lkumar
Reeves, Matthew C
Editor
Editor(s): Prasad S Thenkabail
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
CRC Press
Place of publication
Boca Raton, United States of America
Edition
1
Series
Remote Sensing Handbook
UNE publication id
une:18770
Abstract
Rangelands are a type of land cover dominated by grasses, grasslike plants, broadleaf herbaceous plants (forbs), shrubs, and isolated trees, usually in which large herbivores evolved as part of the ecosystem. In many rangelands, the large herbivores were replaced by livestock, and thus, livestock grazing represents a major land use for production of food and fiber. Sustainability is maintained by species diversity (Hooper et al., 2005; Tilman et al., 2006, 2012; Zavaleta et al., 2010; Reich et al., 2012), and reduction of biodiversity is expected to be one of the major consequences of global climatic change (Soussanna and Luscher, 2007; Janetos et al., 2008; McKeon et al., 2009; Pereira et al., 2010, 2012; Belgacem and Louhaichi, 2013; Joyce et al., 2013; Polley et al., 2013). Along with climatic change, invasions of nonnative species are threatening rangeland sustainability by decreasing native species diversity.
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Citation
Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping with Remote Sensing, v.2, p. 277-307
ISBN
1482217953
9781482217957
Start page
277
End page
307

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