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Martin Wegmann is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a significant emphasis on ecology and related subfields.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Wegmann's research covers various topics, particularly centered on remote sensing applications and ecosystem studies. Key topics in their work include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote-Sensing Image Classification
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

The scientist has several recent publications, notable examples include:

  • "Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "rasterdiv-An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back," 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "From local spectral species to global spectral communities: A benchmark for ecosystem diversity estimate by remote sensing," 2020, Ecological Informatics
  • "Enhancing the structural diversity between forest patches-A concept and real-world experiment to study biodiversity, multifunctionality and forest resilience across spatial scales," 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "The Spectral Species Concept in Living Color," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Wegmann frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Duccio Rocchini
  • Michele Torresani
  • Jonathan Lenoir
  • Marco Malavasi
  • Vítězslav Moudrý

The majority of Wegmann's studies are published in recurring venues such as:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Remote Sensing
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Essential biodiversity variables

    H M Pereira;S Ferrier;M Walters;G N Geller

  • Satellite remote sensing for applied ecologists: opportunities and challenges

    Nathalie Pettorelli;William F. Laurance;Timothy G. O'Brien;Martin Wegmann

  • Environmental science : Agree on biodiversity metrics to track from space

    Andrew K. Skidmore;Nathalie Pettorelli;Nicholas C. Coops;Gary N. Geller

  • Free and open-access satellite data are key to biodiversity conservation

    Woody Turner;Carlo Rondinini;Nathalie Pettorelli;Brice Mora

  • Urbanization in India – Spatiotemporal analysis using remote sensing data

    Hannes Taubenböck;Martin Wegmann;Achim Roth;Harald Mehl

  • Will remote sensing shape the next generation of species distribution models

    Kate S. He;Bethany A. Bradley;Anna F. Cord;Duccio Rocchini

  • Framing the concept of satellite remote sensing essential biodiversity variables: challenges and future directions

    Nathalie Pettorelli;Martin Wegmann;Martin Wegmann;Andrew Skidmore;Sander Mucher

  • Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward

    Nathalie Pettorelli;Henrike Schulte to Bühne;Ayesha Tulloch;Grégoire Dubois

  • Tambora 1815 as a test case for high impact volcanic eruptions: Earth system effects.

    Christoph C. Raible;Stefan Bronnimann;Renate Auchmann;Philip Brohan

  • Ten ways remote sensing can contribute to conservation

    Robert A. Rose;Dirck Byler;J. Ron Eastman;Erica Fleishman

  • Evaluation of snow depth and snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau in global reanalyses using in situ and satellite remote sensing observations

    Yvan Orsolini;Martin Wegmann;Martin Wegmann;Emanuel Dutra;Boqi Liu

  • Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space.

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

  • Earth observation satellite sensors for biodiversity monitoring: potentials and bottlenecks

    Claudia Kuenzer;Marco Ottinger;Martin Wegmann;Huadong Guo

  • Satellite remote sensing to monitor species diversity: potential and pitfalls

    Duccio Rocchini;Doreen S. Boyd;Jean‐Baptiste Féret;Giles M. Foody

  • Quantifying and Mapping Ecosystem Services Supplies and Demands: A Review of Remote Sensing Applications

    Yohannes Zergaw Ayanu;Christopher Conrad;Christopher Conrad;Thomas Nauss;Martin Wegmann;Martin Wegmann

  • The Role of Vegetation in Mitigating Urban Land Surface Temperatures: A Case Study of Munich, Germany during the Warm Season

    Sadroddin Alavipanah;Martin Wegmann;Salman Qureshi;Qihao Weng

  • Winter air temperature variations in western Europe during the Early and High Middle Ages (AD 750–1300):

    C. Pfister;J. Luterbacher;G. Schwarz-Zanetti;M. Wegmann

  • Biological Earth observation with animal sensors.

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  • Measuring β-diversity by remote sensing: A challenge for biodiversity monitoring

    Duccio Rocchini;Duccio Rocchini;Sandra Luque;Nathalie Pettorelli;Lucy Bastin

  • Flying high--assessing the use of the aerosphere by bats.

    Elisabeth Klara Viktoria Kalko;Sergio Estrada Villegas;Michael Schmidt;Martin Wegmann

  • The application of remote sensing for marine protected area management

    Daniel Kachelriess;Martin Wegmann;Matthew Gollock;Nathalie Pettorelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Dech
Stefan Dech German Aerospace Center
Duccio Rocchini
Duccio Rocchini University of Bologna
Nathalie Pettorelli
Nathalie Pettorelli Zoological Society of London
Andrew K. Skidmore
Andrew K. Skidmore University of Twente
Stefan Brönnimann
Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern
Harini Nagendra
Harini Nagendra Azim Premji University
Kamran Safi
Kamran Safi Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Giles M. Foody
Giles M. Foody University of Nottingham
Carlo Ricotta
Carlo Ricotta Sapienza University of Rome
Hannes Taubenböck
Hannes Taubenböck German Aerospace Center

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