Session: Geospatial methods and applications for biodiversity monitoring and
conservation

Biodiversity monitoring has been widely used as a means to assess ecosystem
functioning across various spatial scales. With the recent advances in the
fields of remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and modeling
many aspects of biodiversity monitoring and conservation have been studied
within a spatially explicit context. Incorporation of new data sources and
geospatial tools has made it possible to advance understanding of linkages
between various components of landscape and biodiversity.

This session will focus on geospatial methods for biodiversity monitoring and
applications for conservation of flora and fauna. Appropriate topics include but
are not limited to:
- Remote sensing applications for biodiversity monitoring
- Geospatial systems for information dissemination
- Geospatial analysis and knowledge building on landscape dynamics and
biodiversity
- Modeling current and future state of biodiversity at various spatial and
temporal scales
- Innovative methods for geospatial data generation and analysis
- Biodiversity risk analysis
- Impacts of observed and projected climate change on biodiversity
- Land-cover and land-use change impacts on biodiversity

Organizers:

Dr Tatiana Loboda
Assistant Research Professor
Geography Department
University of Maryland
tloboda@hermes.geog.umd.edu

Kelley O'Neal
Doctoral Candidate
Geography Department
University of Maryland
kelleyo@umd.edu

Please contact the organizers if you would like to participate in the
session. Send your PIN from the AAG conference website to one of the organizers
above after submitting your abstract on the AAG site by October 28, 2009.