Long-term monitoring of vegetation plots is one of the largest investments in ecology and evolution. Using the vast amount of plant data generated by vegetation plots toward animal or plant-animal studies with remote sensing tools is an efficient way to leverage these investments.
Long-term monitoring of vegetation plots is one of the largest investments in ecology and evolution. Using the vast amount of plant data generated by vegetation plots toward animal or plant-animal studies with remote sensing tools is an efficient way to leverage these investments.
Another potential direction is to use automatic vocal identification on larger plots to collect data on the locations of specific species of animals that can be interrelated to the data on plants.
In a study published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Guangxi University documented interactions between frugivorous birds and fruiting trees on a ForestGeo plot in southwestern China.
