From smartphones to satellites: Uniting crowdsourced biodiversity monitoring and Earth observation to fill the gaps in global plant trait mapping
Daniel Lusk, Sophie Wolf, Daria Svidzinska, Carsten F. Dormann, Jens Kattge, Helge Bruelheide, Francesco María Sabatini, Gabriella Damasceno, Álvaro Moreno‐Martínez, Cyrille Violle, Daniel Hending, Georg J. A. Hähn, Solana Tabeni, Shyam Singh Phartyal, Fernando Gonçalves, , Teja Kattenborn
This paper combines crowdsourced biodiversity data with Earth observation to model plant traits at high resolution, achieving strong predictive power and improving spatial coverage for global trait mapping.
bioRxiv · Mar 10, 2025 · PreprintEcology