New Editor | Babak Naimi, editor for Software Notes
We welcome Babak Naimi to Ecography!
About our new Software Notes editor:
Babak Naimi is a senior researcher at the Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics (QBD) group, Utrecht University in the Netherlands, with a research focus on understanding biodiversity change in response to ongoing climate/global change and anthropogenic activities.
My main motivation has always been toward understanding the dynamics and functioning of nature and ecosystems through the use of advances in Geospatial data science and modelling tools (e.g., machine/deep learning, species distribution models). To address grand challenges that humanity faces (e.g., biodiversity loss, land cover/climate change), we need to take into account the recent explosive and remarkable progress in the availability of huge multiple sources of (big) spatial and temporal data, e.g. high-resolution satellite imaging, crowdsourcing, citizen science, drones, sensor networks.
Together with enhanced methodological developments, this can provide a great opportunity to answer questions such as why biodiversity changes are varying over space and time, how they are linked to climate change and other anthropogenic developments, how dynamics of ecosystems can provide insights/signals into their health status (and other risks to humans), how we can quantify the resilience of ecosystems, i.e., the capacity to maintain biodiversity, in a way to provide insights into biodiversity change and the risk of collapses (critical transitions) in species communities and ecosystem functions, and how such insights can contribute to reverse biodiversity loss.
Such advances can also contribute towards successfully implementing strategic plans (e.g., CBD post-2020) and reaching sustainable goals and targets.
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