Mark S. Ashton

TL;DR: These findings suggest that tropical protected areas are often intimately linked ecologically to their surrounding habitats, and that a failure to stem broad-scale loss and degradation of such habitats could sharply increase the likelihood of serious biodiversity declines.

TL;DR: This map reveals that the global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion, an order of magnitude higher than the previous estimate, and the globalNumber of trees has fallen by approximately 46% since the start of human civilization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the best hyperspectral wavebands in the study of vegetation and agricultural crops over the spectral range of 400-2500 nm were determined for four ecoregions of African savannas using a 1-nm-wide spectroradiometer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared narrowband hyperspectral Hyperion data with broadband hyperspatial IKONOS data and advanced multispectral Advanced Land Imager (ALI) and Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data through modeling and classifying complex rainforest vegetation.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of 15 years of research investigating rain forest dynamics of southwest Sri Lanka with the objective of using this knowledge for forest restoration is presented, and six common principles are provided for understanding the integrity of rain forests dynamics in southwest India: (i) disturbances provide the simultaneous initiation and/or release of a new forest stand; (ii) disturbances are generally non-lethal to the ground-story vegetation; (iii) disturbance are variable in severity, type and extent across rain forest topography; (iv) guild diversity (habitat diversity) is dependent