亚马逊生物多样性实时追踪项目启动

Leaders of $100 million effort will use automated detection methods and computer models to monitor species’ trends WARREN CORNWALL Scientists can tell within days whether a grove of trees has been felled anywhere in the world, thanks to satellite imagery. But when it comes to knowing what’s happening in real time to the species that live there, researchers remain woefully blind. “We have good technology that can monitor forests from above,” says Emiliano Ramalho, an ecologist and scientific director for the Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development, a Brazilian nonprofit research organization working in the Amazon rainforest. “But this does not monitor what’s under the canopy.” …