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SUMMARY:When satellites help predicting animal distribution\, movement and
  performance - Dr. Nathalie Pettorelli\, Institute of Zoology\, Zoological
  Society of London
DTSTART:20091009T120000Z
DTEND:20091009T130000Z
UID:TALK20616@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Holly Barclay
DESCRIPTION:Assessing how environmental changes affect the distribution an
 d dynamics of vegetation and animal populations is becoming increasingly i
 mportant to\nterrestrial ecologists. However\, until recently linking clim
 ate\, vegetation and wildlife has not been an easy task\, partly because t
 raditional field ecological data on plants are generally collected at smal
 l spatial scales for only a few species.\n\nRemote sensing data and NDVI (
 Normalised Difference Vegetation Index) have recently changed this situati
 on\, and given ecologists a promising way to couple vegetation with herbiv
 ore distribution\, movement\, performance and dynamics.\n\nIn this talk Dr
 . Pettorelli will discuss how NDVI can help quantify the relationships bet
 ween vegetation dynamics\, animal distribution\, animal density\, seasonal
  movements and individual performance in various ecosystems (spanning from
  tropical\, to semi-desertic to arctic) at multiple spatial and temporal s
 cales.\n
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology \, Downing Street
 \, CB2 3EJ
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