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Three-dimensional forest foodscape in large herbivores' habitat based on UAV with LiDAR detection
Heng Bao1, Guangshun Jiang1,2,3
1College of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China.
Integrative Zoology
|October 8, 2023
Abstract:
With the development of artificial intelligence, the integration of LiDAR technologies and foodscape theories to study wildlife habitat, nutritional ecology, species coexistence, and other existing hot and difficult issues would become an international frontier in the field of wildlife habitat ecology and management.
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