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Marco Heurich is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and focuses their research primarily within the domain of Environmental Science. Their scholarly work extends across several subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to ecology and remote sensing technologies. Key subjects include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Marco Heurich has contributed to publications in various peer-reviewed journals, with a frequent presence in several notable venues such as:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Conservation

They have co-authored numerous papers with several collaborators, regularly working with:

  • Andrew K. Skidmore
  • Jörg Müller
  • Tiejun Wang
  • Francesca Cagnacci
  • Joe Premier

Among notable recent papers involving Marco Heurich are:

  • "Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity-Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations," 2021, Science

Best Publications

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Tree species classification and estimation of stem volume and DBH based on single tree extraction by exploiting airborne full-waveform LiDAR data

    Wei Yao;Peter Krzystek;Marco Heurich

  • Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

    Torben Hilmers;Nicolas Friess;Claus Bässler;Marco Heurich

  • Partial migration in roe deer: migratory and resident tactics are end points of a behavioural gradient determined by ecological factors

    Francesca Cagnacci;Stefano Focardi;Marco Heurich;Anja Stache

  • Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces

    Angela Lausch;Angela Lausch;Michael E. Schaepman;Andrew K. Skidmore;Sina C. Truckenbrodt

  • Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space.

    Andrew K. Skidmore;Andrew K. Skidmore;Nicholas C. Coops;Elnaz Neinavaz;Abebe Ali

  • Understanding Forest Health with Remote Sensing -Part I—A Review of Spectral Traits, Processes and Remote-Sensing Characteristics

    Angela Lausch;Stefan Erasmi;Douglas J. King;Paul Magdon

  • Seasonality, weather and climate affect home range size in roe deer across a wide latitudinal gradient within Europe

    Nicolas Morellet;Christophe Bonenfant;Luca Börger;Federico Ossi;Federico Ossi

  • Classification of Tree Species as Well as Standing Dead Trees Using Triple Wavelength ALS in a Temperate Forest

    Nina Amiri;Peter Krzystek;Marco Heurich;Andrew K. Skidmore

  • Small beetle, large‐scale drivers: how regional and landscape factors affect outbreaks of the European spruce bark beetle

    Rupert Seidl;Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller;Torsten Hothorn;Claus Bässler

  • Linking earth observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: local to ecosystem perspectives

    Angela Lausch;L Bannehr;Michael Beckmann;Christoph Boehm

  • Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests

    Lea Heidrich;Soyeon Bae;Shaun Levick;Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold

  • Understanding Forest Health with Remote Sensing-Part II—A Review of Approaches and Data Models

    Angela Lausch;Stefan Erasmi;Douglas J. King;Paul Magdon

  • Sentinel-2 accurately maps green-attack stage of European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus, L.) compared with Landsat-8

    Haidi Abdullah;Andrew K. Skidmore;Andrew K. Skidmore;Roshanak Darvishzadeh;Marco Heurich;Marco Heurich

  • Automatic recognition and measurement of single trees based on data from airborne laser scanning over the richly structured natural forests of the Bavarian Forest National Park

    Marco Heurich

  • Forecasting potential bark beetle outbreaks based on spruce forest vitality using hyperspectral remote-sensing techniques at different scales

    A. Lausch;M. Heurich;D. Gordalla;H.-J. Dobner

  • Factors affecting the spatio-temporal dispersion of Ips typographus (L.) in Bavarian Forest National Park: A long-term quantitative landscape-level analysis

    Angela Lausch;Lorenz Fahse;Marco Heurich

  • Challenges and science-based implications for modern management and conservation of European ungulate populations

    Marco Apollonio;Vladimir V. Belkin;Jakub Borkowski;Oleg I. Borodin

  • Important LiDAR metrics for discriminating forest tree species in Central Europe

    Yifang Shi;Tiejun Wang;Andrew K. Skidmore;Marco Heurich

  • European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus, L.) green attack affects foliar reflectance and biochemical properties

    Haidi Abdullah;Haidi Abdullah;Roshanak Darvishzadeh;Andrew K. Skidmore;Andrew K. Skidmore;Thomas A. Groen

  • An event-based conceptual model for context-aware movement analysis

    Gennady Andrienko;Natalia Andrienko;Marco Heurich

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew K. Skidmore
Andrew K. Skidmore University of Twente
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Roshanak Darvishzadeh
Roshanak Darvishzadeh University of Twente
Francesca Cagnacci
Francesca Cagnacci Fondazione Edmund Mach
Tiejun Wang
Tiejun Wang University of Twente
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Atle Mysterud
Atle Mysterud University of Oslo
Nicolas Morellet
Nicolas Morellet Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Angela Lausch
Angela Lausch Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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