Barend F.N. Erasmus

TL;DR: Estimates of extinction risks for sample regions that cover some 20% of the Earth's terrestrial surface show the importance of rapid implementation of technologies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon sequestration.

TL;DR: This article applied a multivariate climate envelope approach and evaluated model performance using the most comprehensive bird data set, finding that 17% of species expanded their ranges, 78% displayed range contraction, 3% showed no response and 2% became locally extinct.

TL;DR: DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, the University of Pretoria, EU FP6 MACIS species targeted project (Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate change: Impacts on biodiversity, contract No. 044399) and EU FP 6 ECOCHANGE integrated project (Challenges in assessing and forecasting biodiversity and ecosystem changes in Europe).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the utility of the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) hyperspectral data, and WorldView-2 and Quickbird multispectral spectral data and a combined spectral+tree height dataset (derived from the CAO LiDAR system) for mapping seven common savanna tree species or genera in the Sabi Sands Reserve and communal lands adjacent to Kruger National Park, South Africa.