2nd Edition
Remote Sensing of Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Section 1: LiDAR Remote Sensing
1. Review of LiDAR Technology in Tropical Dry Forests
Nelson Mattie D’Jesus
2. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in Tropical Dry Forests
Andre Truksa and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
3. Emergent Trees in Tropical Dry Forests
Evan Francis and Patrick B. O’Brien
4. Aboveground Biomass and Biomass Change Estimates of Tropical Dry Forest Using Aerial and Terrestrial LiDARJuan Andres-Mauricio, Juan Manuel Dupuy-Rada, Geoffrey Parker, Carlos A. Portillo-Quintero and Jose Luis Hernández-Stefanoni
5. Entropy in Tropical Dry Ecosystems
Nooshin Mashaddi and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Section 2: Remote Sensing Ecology
6. Applications of Remote Sensing in Tropical Dry Forests to Predict Biodiversity
Patrick B. O’Brien
7. Successional Variation in Spectral and Biophysical Leaf Traits in Two Latin American Tropical Dry Forests
Michael Hesketh and Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa
8. Comparing Ground-Based and Remote Sensing Methods to Assess Phenological Patterns along a Successional Gradient in a Tropical Dry Forest
Joselândio Corrêa Santos, Iaciara Geórgia Silveira Cardoso, Kleiperry Freitas Ferreira et al.
9. Deep Learning with Synergized Airborne LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data for Mapping Tropical Dry Forest Successional Stages
Chuanliang Sun, Genping Zhao, Kati Laakso et al.
10. Intra- and Interannual Variation in Tree Deciduousness in a Tropical Dry Forest in Yucatán, México: Effects of Successional Age and Topography
Astrid Helena Huechacona-Ruiz, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni and Juan Manuel Dupuy-Rada
11. Resilience of Tropical Dry Forests Management Systems in the Yucatan Peninsula
Carlos Portillo-Quintero, Carlos Carpio, Amy Boren-Alpizar et al.
12. Identifying Priority Zones for Reforestation in the Montane Dry Forests of Bolivia with Machine Learning, Remote Sensing and GIS Methods
Michael Leuchner and Larissa Böhrkircher
Section 3: Ecosystem Services
13. Environmental Drought Approach to Understanding Droughts in Tropical Dry Forests: A Review
Paula Sofia Moreno-Pina, Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa and Hendrik Hamann
14. Assessing Water Ecosystem Services in the Conservation Area of Guanacaste, Costa Rica: A Hydrological Modeling Approach Integrating Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics
Oscar J. Baron-Ruiz and Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa
15. Quantifying Water Provisioning Services at the Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica
Marissa Castro-Magnani and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa and Benoit Rivard
Section 4: Ecology
16. Additive Partitioning of Phyllostomid Bat Diversity in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests in Minas Gerais State, Southeastern Brazil
Luiz Alberto Dolabela Falcão, Maria Fernanda Fonseca, Thiago Paoliello et al.
17. Nutrient Deposition Dynamics along a Dry Forest Chronosequence in the Brazilian Semi-arid Region
Saimo Reblleth de Souza, Maria das Dores Magalhães Veloso, Mário Marcos do Espírito Santo et al.
18. Unravelling the Factors Influencing Floristic Composition: Insights from a Local-Scale Study in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests
Sarah Ferreira de Jesus, Débora C. Zuanny and Maurício Rizzato Coelho
Biography
Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa is a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta and serves as the director of the University’s Centre for Earth Observation Sciences (CEOS). His research combines remote sensing with ground-based wireless sensor networks to enhance environmental monitoring and climate change assessment in tropical dry forests. Dr. Sanchez-Azofeifa has received numerous accolades, including a Fulbright Fellowship, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship from Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, the Canadian Forest Service Merit Award, and the Sir McMaster Fellowship from Australia’s Commonwealth Science and Research Innovation Organization (CSIRO). Furthermore, he has been a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany, and he holds an adjunct professor position at the University of Helsinki, Finland. At the University of Alberta, he has been honoured with the Faculty of Science Research Award for Outstanding Contributions, the McCalla Research Professorship, and the Faculty of Science Research Fellowship, among many other distinctions. Dr. Sanchez-Azofeifa has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and authored three books, significantly advancing the fields of environmental science and remote sensing, particularly in relation to tropical dry forests throughout the Americas.
