rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back

Duccio Rocchini; Elisa Thouverai; Matteo Marcantonio; Martina Iannacito; Daniele Da Re; Michele Torresani; Giovanni Bacaro; Manuele Bazzichetto; Alessandra Bernardi; Giles M. Foody; Reinhard Furrer; David Kleijn; Stefano Larsen; Jonathan Lenoir; Marco Malavasi; Elisa Marchetto; Filippo Messori; Alessandro Montaghi; Vítězslav Moudrý; Babak Naimi; Carlo Ricotta; Micol Rossini; Francesco Santi; Maria J. Santos; Michael E. Schaepman; Fabian D. Schneider; Leila Schuh; Sonia Silvestri; Petra Ŝímová; Andrew K. Skidmore; Clara Tattoni; Enrico Tordoni; Saverio Vicario; Piero Zannini; Martin Wegmann

doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13583

rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back

Duccio Rocchini^*, Elisa Thouverai, Matteo Marcantonio, Martina Iannacito, Daniele Da Re, Michele Torresani, Giovanni Bacaro, Manuele Bazzichetto, Alessandra Bernardi, Giles M. Foody, Reinhard Furrer, David Kleijn, Stefano Larsen, Jonathan Lenoir, Marco Malavasi, Elisa Marchetto, Filippo Messori, Alessandro Montaghi, Vítězslav Moudrý, Babak NaimiCarlo Ricotta, Micol Rossini, Francesco Santi, Maria J. Santos, Michael E. Schaepman, Fabian D. Schneider, Leila Schuh, Sonia Silvestri, Petra Ŝímová, Andrew K. Skidmore, Clara Tattoni, Enrico Tordoni, Saverio Vicario, Piero Zannini, Martin Wegmann

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Abstract

Ecosystem heterogeneity has been widely recognized as a key ecological indicator of several ecological functions, diversity patterns and change, metapopulation dynamics, population connectivity or gene flow. In this paper, we present a new R package—rasterdiv—to calculate heterogeneity indices based on remotely sensed data. We also provide an ecological application at the landscape scale and demonstrate its power in revealing potentially hidden heterogeneity patterns. The rasterdiv package allows calculating multiple indices, robustly rooted in Information Theory, and based on reproducible open-source algorithms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1093-1102
Journal	Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	12
Issue number	6
Early online date	27 Feb 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13583
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

biodiversity
ecological informatics
modelling
remote sensing
satellite imagery

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Rocchini, D., Thouverai, E., Marcantonio, M., Iannacito, M., Da Re, D., Torresani, M., Bacaro, G., Bazzichetto, M., Bernardi, A., Foody, G. M., Furrer, R., Kleijn, D., Larsen, S., Lenoir, J., Malavasi, M., Marchetto, E., Messori, F., Montaghi, A., Moudrý, V., ... Wegmann, M. (2021). rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), 1093-1102. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13583

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