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SUMMARY:Carbon fluxes and biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes – mod
 elling with airborne lidar - Will Simonson (Coomes Lab)
DTSTART:20150129T130000Z
DTEND:20150129T133000Z
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CONTACT:Stephanie Swarbreck
DESCRIPTION:Airborne lidar has proven a powerful tool for modelling above-
 ground biomass and carbon\, habitat structure and biodiversity of wooded l
 andscapes. Here I describe the application of this technology to the study
  of two regions in southern Europe: central Spain and Tuscany (Italy). Rep
 eat lidar surveys with a five-year interval\, ground-truthed with plot dat
 a on tree height and girth\, have been used to estimate changes in biomass
  and carbon and relate these to broad vegetation types. I describe a simul
 ation modelling approach that then uses these estimates to predict landsca
 pe-level change under a changing fire regime. In the second application\, 
 I investigate the strength of relationship of lidar metrics of vegetation 
 structure with field recording of species diversity of two taxonomic group
 s: birds and bats. This is a test of the potential of lidar to predict pat
 terns of species diversity over large spatial extents\, with relevance to 
 conservation planning and management.
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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