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Join us for our conference session: Open Format Session OFS-63 — The Potential of Drones to Advance Tropical Ecology and Conservation at the upcoming 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Oaxaca, México!

Title Presenter
Introduction to the session Session organizers
Advancing tropical ecosystem research with drones: Insights from the Galápagos and Yasuní National Park Gonzalo Rivas Torres
Assessing long-term shifts in canopy structure and forest dynamics during the second decade of forest recovery through drone-generated RGB imagery Rakan Zahawi
Integrating drone-based remote sensing, field ecology, and lightning sensors to quantify forest disturbance regimes Cesar E. Gutierrez B.
The challenge of linking drone-derived canopy disturbance data to forest biomass fluxes and individual tree mortality and damage Luisa F. Gómez-Correa
Methodological advances in long-term monitoring of tropical tree phenology using UAV imagery Vicente Vasquez
Edge effects and fragmentation in the Dry Chaco Forest: NDVI insights from UAV multispectral indices Axel Gualdoni-Becerra
Drones for focal tree species classification and mapping around forest restoration sites in Costa Rica S. Holden Jones
Automatic acquisition of close-up photos of tree crowns with drones can transform the study of tropical trees and lianas Etienne Laliberté
Examining the potential for tropical tree species classification from drone hyperspectral imagery Patrick Cannon
Thermal drones in the tropics: Methods and challenges in a fragmented Amazonian landscape Skye Hellenkamp
Using drones to enhance primate ecology field studies Lucy Millington
Digital floodscapes: using UAV laser scanning to understand forest structure, function and vulnerability in the Amazon wetlands Thiago Silva
How drones are expanding our understanding of tropical forests Helene Muller-Landau

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