Protecting Colombia's Biodiversity | NASA Applied Science
A research institute for the government of Colombia is now incorporating a satellite-data-based biodiversity monitoring system into its conservation practices.
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A research institute for the government of Colombia is now incorporating a satellite-data-based biodiversity monitoring system into its conservation practices.
Ecosystem managers can create species protection plans with a new tool that may help identify the tipping point before vulnerability occurs.
E-Mail IMAGE: New research can help ecosystem managers identify species vulnerabilities and prevent populations from becoming at risk, like the endangered Mexican gray wolf. view more Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service More than 3,000 animal species in the world today are considered endangered, with hundreds more categorized as vulnerable. Currently, ecologists don't have reliable tools to predict when a species may become at risk. A new paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, "Management implications of long transients in ecological systems," focuses on the transien...