Technological innovation facilitates the practice of "three-dimensional ecology"

Yanwen Fu; Guangcai Xu; Yumei Li; Shang Gao; Qinghua Guo; Haitao Yang

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105767

Technological innovation facilitates the practice of "three-dimensional ecology"

iScience. 2022 Dec 9;26(1):105767. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105767. eCollection 2023 Jan 20.

Authors

Yanwen Fu¹, Guangcai Xu², Yumei Li³, Shang Gao², Qinghua Guo⁴, Haitao Yang^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Engineering, Northeast Tiger and Leopard Biodiversity National Observation and Research Station, National Forestry and Grassland Administration Amur Tiger and Amur Leopard Monitoring and Research Center, National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory for Conservation Ecology in Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
² Beijing GreenValley Technology Co., Ltd, Haidian District, Beijing 100091, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
⁴ Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

Abstract

The development of "three-dimensional ecology" reveals refreshing phenomena and challenges us to use three-dimensional information for studying animal perception. We created a new processing framework to quantify the shielding effect using a reconstructed environmental structure. The framework achieves three objectives: 1) the observed is introduced, 2) the observed space size can be flexibly dealt with, and 3) three-dimensional attributes are assigned to the environmental structure. Our processing framework is an applicable method to "three-dimensional ecology" based on the three-dimensional attributes of physical structures. We advocate for greater emphasis on "three-dimensional ecology" to recreate realistic animal living conditions and better reveal their behaviors.

Keywords: Biological sciences; Ecology; Environmental technology.