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...tysto assess and monitor the spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem health. Nonetheless, concerns were raised thatsremote sensing specialists may pay more attention to technology than ecological problems =-=[29,30]-=-,swhile ecologists may not have sufficient remote sensing background to address ecological problemssat local to global scales [25]. Efforts thus are needed to bridge the research gap between the twosr...

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...5]. Thus, vegetation type classifications might conceal the heterogeneity of forage resources [26]. High-resolution remote sensing has demonstrated the potential to detect environmental heterogeneity =-=[27,28]-=- at a spatial scale fine enough to be relevant for foraging animals [3,26,29]. Advanced observational approaches such as imaging spectroscopy (IS [30,31]) make it possible to detect changes in plant b...

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...agingsspectrometers currently have a limited geographic coverage (e.g. 1 to 10 km),salthough high spatial resolution imagery can be used as a form of supporting data forslarger-scale mapping efforts [=-=Aplin, 2005-=-]. For example, Quinton et al. [2003] utilizedsclassified high resolution IKONOS data to assist in the supervised classification ofsLandsat data in a study of connectivity and storage functions in pea...

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...ystems (GIS), remote sensing, and spatial modelling are together offering increasingly answers to this requests(Nagendra & Gadgil, 1999a; Nagendra & Gadgil, 1999b;sNagendra, 2001; Turner et al. 2003; =-=Aplin, 2005-=-). Spatial labels in species observation or collection allows inspection of distributions of individual taxa, but also relatessthem to other information sources, such as climatologic, topographic, eco...

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...tion systems and remote sensing methods in thesenvironmental sector has increasingly involved geography as a discipline in the mappingsand monitoring of the aquatic environment (e.g. Liu et al. 2003; =-=Aplin 2005-=-; McDermidset al. 2005; Duro et al. 2007; Knudby et al. 2007; Longhurst 2007). GIS and remotessensing allow the characterization of the aquatic environment and human activitiessembracing diverse data ...