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Growing Up Fragmented: Using Hyperspectral Imagery to Improve Estimates of Ecosystem Services from Tropical Reforestation

DeFries, Ruth: Columbia University (Project Lead)

Project Funding: 2010 - 2013

NRA: 2010 NASA: NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program   

Funded by NASA

Publications:

Cisneros, L. M., Fagan, M. E., Willig, M. R. 2014. Season-specific and guild-specific effects of anthropogenic landscape modification on metacommunity structure of tropical bats. Journal of Animal Ecology. 84(2), 373-385. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12299

Fagan, M. E., DeFries, R. S., Sesnie, S. E., Arroyo, J. P., Walker, W., Soto, C., Chazdon, R. L., Sanchun, A. 2013. Land cover dynamics following a deforestation ban in northern Costa Rica. Environmental Research Letters. 8(3), 034017. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034017

Fagan, M. E., DeFries, R. S., Sesnie, S. E., Arroyo-Mora, J. P., Chazdon, R. L. 2016. Targeted reforestation could reverse declines in connectivity for understory birds in a tropical habitat corridor. Ecological Applications. 26(5), 1456-1474. DOI: 10.1890/14-2188

Fagan, M., DeFries, R., Sesnie, S., Arroyo-Mora, J., Soto, C., Singh, A., Townsend, P., Chazdon, R. 2015. Mapping Species Composition of Forests and Tree Plantations in Northeastern Costa Rica with an Integration of Hyperspectral and Multitemporal Landsat Imagery. Remote Sensing. 7(5), 5660-5696. DOI: 10.3390/rs70505660


2011 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Poster(s)

  • Distinguishing tree plantation species and secondary forests using Landsat and Hymap   --   (Matthew E. Fagan, J. Pablo Arroyo-Mora, Steven E. Sesnie, Ruth DeFries)   [abstract]

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