Remote Sensing of Tropical Forest Biodiversity

Dear Colleagues,

Tropical forests contain the richest assemblages of plant species on Earth, which, in turn, harbor a vast array of animal species. The biological diversity of tropical forests is not only defined by the number and composition of plant and animal species present, but also the functional and structural trait variation found among coexisting taxa. Despite this knowledge, spatial and temporal variation in tropical forest biodiversity remains poorly understood, owing to challenges of field-based access over representative areas. In the past decade, remote sensing has expanded its footprint across most tropical forest ecosystems, expanding our understanding of how biodiversity is arranged and changing over time.

This Special Issues calls for the most innovative work on remote sensing of tropical forest biodiversity, as a means to bring the latest research together to communicate the emerging science and technology to a global tropical forest biodiversity community. For this Special Issue, I seek papers that focus on improving our ability to measure, map and monitor key aspects of tropical forest taxonomic, functional and structural diversity, as well as new insights gained from doing so. The papers are not limited to remote sensing of plants and their functional and structural traits, but also seeks to include papers that incorporate all aspects of tropical forest biodiversity including animals. The Special Issue will be widely promoted and circulated, thereby increasing general readership of the group of papers presented in an open access journal.

Prof. Dr. Gregory P. Asner
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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