To understand where interior forest has been lost and therefore where risks from forest fragmentation might be greatest, the researchers used global tree cover
data to map the forests of 2000 and 2012 and examined the patterns of change
across ecological regions and biomes.
«The
data was collected as part of a programme supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 150 grasslands
across Germany, the so called «Biodiversity Exploratories»,» says Professor Wolfgang Weisser of the Chair for Terrestrial Ecology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)-- «it constitutes the most extensive
ecological sampling in Europe.»
The National
Ecological Observatory Network, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and operated by Battelle, is designed to collect and provide open data that characterize and quantify complex, rapidly changing ecological processes acro
Ecological Observatory Network, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and operated by Battelle, is designed to collect and provide open
data that characterize and quantify complex, rapidly changing
ecological processes acro
ecological processes
across the US.