A new publication lead by Duccio Rocchini has been published in Ecological Indicators titled “Remotely sensed spatial heterogeneity as an exploratory tool for taxonomic and functional diversity study“. This publication stressed the challenges to assess biodiversity from in-situ data and encourages to explore novel approaches to compute diversity measures. Remote Sensing can achieve that while covering large areas over a short period of time and thus allows to map diversity hotspots from space-borne systems. read more here:
PhD colloquium of Prof. Stefan Dech
Last week we had as every year the colloquium of all PhD students by Prof. Stefan Dech. This time in a different setting however despite these changes we had very good and extensive discussions on various research topics. Nevertheless we are looking forward to have...