Marine Ecology and Biodiversity by Remote Sensing Technology
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 September 2024 | Viewed by 1491
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine and coastal habitats; marine biodiversity; spatial analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coastal and Marine ecosystems are remarkable regions with high biodiversity that provide a broad range of services and functions, such as provisioning (fisheries), regulation and maintenance (blue carbon, erosion prevention, storm protection, life cycle maintenance of nurseries and refuge areas of commercial and endemic species), support (nutrients provision and primary production), and also cultural services (tourism, recreation). However, the increasing impact of human activities on coastal and marine areas makes the development of monitoring and management strategies crucial to safeguarding marine biodiversity and its ecosystem services.
Mapping based on Remote Sensing (RS) technology and Distribution Modelling (DM) has emerged as a powerful tool in these tasks, offering a comprehensive and non-intrusive means of studying vast and often inaccessible marine environments. Ecological models provide distribution patterns of species and habitats in areas in which the availability of reliable data is scarce, especially in marine environments; this plays an essential role in assessing ecosystem health and biodiversity in a context of global change. Remote sensing products can provide continuous data on the environmental factors that drive the distribution of marine organisms. The increasing availability of Earth observation (EO) data offers an unprecedented opportunity to extend the applicability of ecological models for both predictive and explanatory purposes.
This Special Issue specifically aims to address the successful application of these technologies, on a local to regional scale in coastal and marine environments, in relation to ecosystem productivity and biodiversity. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Integration of marine remote sensing data and species distribution models for mapping.
- Identification of key environmental factors for the distribution of marine species.
- Coastal and marine biodiversity—benthic habitats (seagrass, corals, and algae).
- Analysis of time series of species distributions based on historical remote sensing data.
- Evaluation of the status of fish stocks.
- Sustainable management practices based on RS and DM information.
The Special Issue will accept both review and research papers.
Dr. Laura Martín-García
Prof. Dr. Manuel Arbelo
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- marine and coastal habitats
- habitat mapping
- remote sensing
- distribution models
- marine biodiversity
- coastal biodiversity
- marine management
