Estimating impacts of plantation forestry on plant biodiversity in southern Chile—a spatially explicit modelling approach

摘要: Monitoring the impacts of land-use practices is particular importance with regard to biodiversity hotspots in developing countries. Here, conserving high level unique challenged by limited possibilities for data collection on site. Especially such scenarios, assisting assessments remote sensing has proven useful. Remote techniques can be applied interpolate between taken situ. Through this approach, estimates entire landscapes produced, relating intensity conditions. Such maps are a valuable basis conservation plans. Several approaches have been published so far local data. In following, new approach proposed. Instead inferring using environmental variables or variability spectral values, hypothesis-based applied. Empirical knowledge about relation formalized and as ascription rules image The method exemplified large study site (over 67,000 km(2)) central Chile, where forest industry heavily plant diversity. proposed yields coefficient correlation 0.73 produces convincing estimate regional biodiversity. framework broad enough other sites.