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📢 NEW PAPER! #PaperThread #SciComm
Master’s student @samherniman recently published an article about avian habitat suitability in Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. Sam has written this thread summarizing his findings...
📖: doi.org/10.1016/j.rsas…
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Master’s student @samherniman recently published an article about avian habitat suitability in Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. Sam has written this thread summarizing his findings...
📖: doi.org/10.1016/j.rsas…
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In general, when a habitat has more #birds, it also has more of all living things. In scientific terms, we say that birds are good surrogates or indicators of #biodiversity.
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This is excellent, because counting birds is really easy. Many of them sing or call. So, we can do a field survey of birds in a habitat and use that number to find a relative count of all biodiversity.
more birdsong ≈ more birds ≈ more biodiversity
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more birdsong ≈ more birds ≈ more biodiversity
🦉🌲🐦🌳🦅
🐿️🪱🍂🍄🕷
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