Biodiversity in the neotropical region is of enormous importance, specially related to the future exploitation of this natural resource for food production, medical applications and restoration ecology and technology. Knowledge of this biodiversity and its conservation represents an important step from the scientific and applied point of view. Neotropical biodiversity is endangered by human int...

Bottomland hardwood forests are highly productive ecosystems located along the floodplains of rivers and streams throughout the central and eastern United States (Hodges, 1994). These ecosystems provide important functions including hydrologic flux and storage, biological productivity, biogeochemical cycling and storage, decomposition and wildlife habitat (Richardson, 1994). Bottomland hardwood...

There is a rapidly growing need for technologies that will enable the monitoring of the world's natural resources and urban assets, and managing exposure to natural and human-made (i.e. technological) risk. This need is driven by continued, geographically disproportionate urbanization, inherent vulnerability and exposure to risk therein and the stress placed on natural resource capacity. Consid...

Abstract Rivers and streams, when fully connected to their floodplains, are naturally resilient systems that increasingly part of the conversation on nature‐based climate solutions. Reconnecting waterways floodplains improves water quality quantity, supports biodiversity sensitive species conservation, increases flood, drought fire resiliency, bolsters carbon sequestration. But, while importanc...