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Reviewnpj biodiversity2025

The biodiversity survey of the Cape (BioSCape), integrating remote sensing with biodiversity science.

Anabelle W Cardoso, Erin L Hestir, Jasper A Slingsby, Cherie J Forbes, Glenn R Moncrieff, Woody Turner, Andrew L Skowno, Jacob Nesslage, Philip G Brodrick, Keith D Gaddis and 1 more

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Review in npj biodiversity, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Anabelle W CardosoDepartment of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Erin L HestirDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA. ehestir@ucmerced.edu.
Jasper A SlingsbyDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Cherie J ForbesDepartment of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Glenn R MoncrieffThe Nature Conservancy, Cape Town, South Africa.
Woody TurnerEarth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.
Andrew L SkownoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Jacob NesslageDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA.
Philip G BrodrickJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Keith D GaddisEarth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.
Adam M WilsonDepartment of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Funding

NASA 21-SMDSS21-0041NASA 80NSSC21K0086National Research Foundation 142438National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program 2139297
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are repeated calls for remote sensing observations to produce accessible data products that improve our understanding and conservation of biodiversity. The Biodiversity Survey of the Cape (BioSCape) addresses this need by integrating field, airborne, satellite, and modeling datasets to advance the limits of global remote sensing of biodiversity. Over six weeks, an international team of ~150 scientists collected data across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems in South Africa. In situ biodiversity observations of plant and animal communities, estuaries, kelp, and plankton were made using traditional field methods as well as novel approaches like environmental DNA and acoustic surveys. Biodiversity observations were accompanied by an unprecedented combination of airborne imaging spectroscopy and lidar measurements acquired across 45,000 km

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PMID39900662
PMCPMC11790483

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