Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity.
Abstract
Technologies to identify individual animals, follow their movements, identify and
locate animal and plant species, and assess the status of their habitats remotely
have become better, faster, and cheaper as threats to the survival of species are
increasing. New technologies alone do not save species, and new data create new problems.
For example, improving technologies alone cannot prevent poaching: solutions require
providing appropriate tools to the right people. Habitat loss is another driver: the
challenge here is to connect existing sophisticated remote sensing with species occurrence
data to predict where species remain. Other challenges include assembling a wider
public to crowdsource data, managing the massive quantities of data generated, and
developing solutions to rapidly emerging threats.
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Journal articleSubject
AnimalsPlants
Ecology
Conservation of Natural Resources
Ecosystem
Biodiversity
Statistics as Topic
Remote Sensing Technology
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23548Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.008Publication Info
Pimm, Stuart L; Alibhai, Sky; Bergl, Richard; Dehgan, Alex; Giri, Chandra; Jewell,
Zoë; ... Loarie, Scott (2015). Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity. Trends in ecology & evolution, 30(11). pp. 685-696. 10.1016/j.tree.2015.08.008. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23548.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Stuart L. Pimm
Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School
of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Stuart Pimm is a world leader in the study of present-day extinctions and what can
be done to prevent them. His research covers the reasons why species become extinct,
how fast they do so, the global patterns of habitat loss and species extinction and,
importantly, the management consequences of this research. Pimm received his BSc degree
from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974.
Pimm is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books. He i

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