3D Imaging Insights into Forests and Coral Reefs

Kim Calders; Stuart Phinn; Renata Ferrari; Javier Leon; John Armston; Gregory P Asner; Mathias Disney

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.004

3D Imaging Insights into Forests and Coral Reefs

Trends Ecol Evol. 2020 Jan;35(1):6-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.004. Epub 2019 Nov 5.

Authors

Kim Calders¹, Stuart Phinn², Renata Ferrari³, Javier Leon⁴, John Armston⁵, Gregory P Asner⁶, Mathias Disney⁷

Affiliations

¹ CAVElab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; Remote Sensing Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia. Electronic address: kim.calders@ugent.be.
² Remote Sensing Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia.
³ Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia.
⁴ Global Change Ecology Research Group, School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, 4556, Queensland, Australia.
⁵ Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
⁶ Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.
⁷ UCL Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.

PMID: 31699409
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.10.004

Abstract

Forests and coral reefs are structurally complex ecosystems threatened by climate change. In situ 3D imaging measurements provide unprecedented, quantitative, and detailed structural information that allows testing of hypotheses relating form to function. This affords new insights into both individual organisms and their relationship to their surroundings and neighbours.

MeSH terms

Animals
Anthozoa*
Climate Change
Coral Reefs*
Ecosystem
Forests
Imaging, Three-Dimensional