TY - JOUR
AU - Foody, G.M.
AB - Progress in Physical Geography 32(2) (2008) pp. 223–235 Progress report G.M. Foody* School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK I Introduction II General biodiversity assessments Geographical information science (GIS) has The multifaceted nature of biodiversity played an increasing role in biogeography complicates its characterization and meas- over the last decade. In this period, for urement. Many indices may be used to re- example, the number of papers using GIS present biodiversity (Duro et al., 2007; Yue published in the journal Landscape Ecology et al., 2007). The most widely used index of has roughly doubled (Anderson, 2008). biodiversity is species richness, the number Considerable recent research activity has of species present, although this does not been associated with certain aspects of GIS, convey key information on the composition notably remote sensing. Remote sensing of species which is sometimes needed for now routinely provides environmental infor- activities such as the prioritization of sites mation at scales from the local to global and for conservation. Often there is a desire to geographical information systems provide, have relatively general assessments of key among other things, a means to store, analyse aspects of biodiversity and GIS may be a 
TI - GIS: biodiversity applications
JF - Progress in Physical Geography: An International Review of Geographical Work in the Natural and Environmental Sciences
DO - 10.1177/0309133308094656
DA - 2008-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/gis-biodiversity-applications-REAv6OEVyV
SP - 223
EP - 235
VL - 32
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -