Grant Number: 131281 Description: Standard Grant Associated Project: Award Date: 2001-09-20 Award Period: 2001-09-15 to 2003-11-30 Amount: $ 50007.00 Primary Investigator: Kathleen Bergen Researchers Kathleen Bergen Daniel Brown M Dobson Technology: Biodiversity Government Domain: Natural Resource Management

Primary Institution:
University of Michigan

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Abstract:
EIA-0131281 Bergen, Kathleen University of Michigan - Ann Arbor BDEI: Radar Remote Sensing of Habitat Structure for Biodiversity Informatics Project Summary Mapping for biodiversity informatics requires information on habitat so that known species occurrences may be extrapolated to maps of potential species occurrences. That is, given the conversion of known specimen locations into maps, how can we best predict where additional individuals or populations of that species may occur? In the context of landscape ecology, landscape structure - its multi-dimensional components - is a primary basis for habitat preferences of bird species. Vegetation spatial composition, heterogeneity, variability, and scale are among the variables contributing to the horizontal structure, while vegetation height, layering, and biomass are examples of variables in the volumetric dimension. Combined together these variables, and others, describe the real multi-dimensional structure of habitat.