biodiversity; Greater Cape Floristic Region; hyperspectral reflectance; redundancy; remote sensing; spectral variation hypothesis; surrogacy hypothesis

Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper-diverse biogeographic region

Abstract Aim With plant biodiversity under global threat, there is an urgent need to monitor the spatial distribution of multiple axes of biodiversity. Remote sensing is a critical tool in this endeavour. One remote sensing approach for detecting …