Seeing the unseen by remote sensing: Satellite imagery applied to species distribution modelling

Abstract

Remotely-sensed proxies have been acknowledged as powerful tools for estimating species' spatial distributions, whatever the taxonomic group being considered. Jiang et al. (2013) provide a robust example of seeing the unseen by remote sensing, predicting the distribution of epiphyllous liverworts from SPOT Vegetation remotely-sensed data. Remotely-sensed proxies have been acknowledged as powerful tools for estimating species' spatial distributions, whatever the taxonomic group being considered. Jiang et al. (2013) provide a robust example of seeing the unseen by remote sensing, predicting the distribution of epiphyllous liverworts from SPOT Vegetation remotely-sensed data. © 2012 International Association for Vegetation Science.