Digital Ecology: New Technologies Are Revolutionizing Ecology

Abstract

New technologies are helping us to study and understand complexity of ecosystems in detail. Transformative technologies include more sophisticated methods for monitoring (sensors, remote sensing, drones); greater abilities to embrace broadscale phylogeography, and access to the power of e-science (big-data, simulation, visualisation). International repositories now gather data about biodiversity, species distributions and whole ecosystems from around the world.