"This second edition focuses on Tropical Dry Forests (TDF) in the Americas and provides a comprehensive overview of new studies conducted in the last decade, giving new insights into the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics. Written by experts in remote sensing, ecosystem services, and ecology, the book concentrates on four thematic areas such as LiDAR remote sensing, remote sensing and ecology, quantification of ecosystem services, and TDF ecology. The case studies presented in this edition provide information on how emerging technologies can be applied to analyze biophysical properties and the status of TDFs across different regions in Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Bolivia"--
Focuses on tropical dry forests in the Americas and provides a comprehensive overview of new studies conducted in recent years, giving new insights into the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics. Case studies included analyze the biophysical properties and the status of TDFs in different regions of Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Bolivia.
This second edition focuses on Tropical Dry Forests (TDF) in the Americas and provides a comprehensive overview of new studies conducted in the last decade, giving new insights into the most endangered ecosystem in the tropics. Written by experts in remote sensing, ecosystem services, and ecology, the book concentrates on four thematic areas such as LiDAR remote sensing, remote sensing and ecology, quantification of ecosystem services, and TDF ecology. The case studies presented in this edition provide information on how emerging technologies can be applied to analyze biophysical properties and the status of TDFs across different regions in Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Bolivia.
Features
- Includes all new content and does not replace the previous edition.
- Offers insight into the application of airborne and terrestrial laser scanning in tropical dry forests.
- Discusses ecology, remote sensing, hydrological modelling and ecosystem services.
- Includes novel information to build additional comparisons with peer-reviewed datasets.
- Highlights scientific achievements from different countries with tropical dry forests.
- Enables readers to comprehend and apply further comparative studies within the same ecosystem.
This is an excellent book for professionals, academics, and students in the fields of Remote Sensing, Hydrology, and Environmental Science, as well as for Geographers, Ecologists, and individuals involved in the management of tropical dry forests.
Section 1: LiDAR Remote Sensing.
1. Review of LiDAR Technology in
Tropical Dry Forests.
2. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in
Tropical Dry Forests.
3. Emergent Trees in Tropical Dry Forests Using
Airborne Laser Scanning.
4. Aboveground Biomass and Biomass Change Estimates
of Tropical Dry Forest Using Aerial and Terrestrial LiDAR.
5. Entropy in
Tropical Dry Ecosystems. Section 2: Remote Sensing Ecology.
6. Applications
of Remote Sensing in Tropical Dry Forests to Predict Biodiversity.
7.
Successional Variation in Spectral and Biophysical Leaf Traits in Two Latin
American Tropical Dry Forests.
8. Comparing Ground-based and Remote Sensing
Methods to Assess Phenological Patterns along a Successional Gradient in a
Tropical Dry Forest.
9. Deep Learning with Synergized Airborne LiDAR and
Hyperspectral Data for Mapping Tropical Dry Forest Successional Stages.
10.
Intra- and Interannual Variation in Tree Deciduousness in a Tropical Dry
Forest in Yucatįn, México: Effects of Successional Age and Topography.
11.
Resilience of Tropical Dry Forests Management Systems in the Yucatan
Peninsula.
12. Identifying Priority Zones for Reforestation in the Montane
Dry Forests of Bolivia with Machine Learning, Remote Sensing and GIS Methods.
Section 3: Ecosystem Services.
13. Environmental Drought Approach to
Understanding Droughts in Tropical Dry Forests: A Review.
14. Assessing Water
Ecosystem Services in the Conservation Area of Guanacaste, Costa Rica: A
Hydrological Modeling Approach Integrating Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics.
15. Quantifying Water Provisioning Services at the Guanacaste Conservation
Area, Costa Rica. Section 4: Ecology.
16. Additive Partitioning of
Phyllostomid Bat Diversity in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests in Minas Gerais
State, Southeastern Brazil.
17. Nutrient Deposition Dynamics along a Dry
Forest Chronosequence in the Brazilian Semi-Arid Region.
18. Unravelling the
factors influencing floristic composition: Insights from a local-scale study
in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests.
Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa is a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta and serves as the director of the Universitys Centre for Earth Observation Sciences (CEOS). His research combines remote sensing with ground-based wireless sensor networks to enhance environmental monitoring and climate change assessment in tropical dry forests. Dr. Sanchez-Azofeifa has received numerous accolades, including a Fulbright Fellowship, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship from Stanford Universitys Woods Institute for the Environment, the Canadian Forest Service Merit Award, and the Sir McMaster Fellowship from Australias Commonwealth Science and Research Innovation Organization (CSIRO). Furthermore, he has been a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany, and he holds an adjunct professor position at the University of Helsinki, Finland. At the University of Alberta, he has been honoured with the Faculty of Science Research Award for Outstanding Contributions, the McCalla Research Professorship, and the Faculty of Science Research Fellowship, among many other distinctions. Dr. Sanchez-Azofeifa has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and authored three books, significantly advancing the fields of environmental science and remote sensing, particularly in relation to tropical dry forests throughout the Americas.
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