TY  - JOUR
AU  - Schirrmann, Michael
AU  - Joschko, Monika
AU  - Gebbers, Robin
AU  - Kramer, Eckart
AU  - Zörner, Miriam
AU  - Barkusky, Dietmar
AU  - Timmer, Jens
TI  - Proximal Soil Sensing – A Contribution for Species Habitat Distribution Modelling of Earthworms in Agricultural Soils?
JO  - PLoS one
VL  - 11
IS  - 6
SN  - 1932-6203
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
PB  - PLoS
M1  - FZJ-2016-04092
SP  - e0158271 -
PY  - 2016
AB  - Earthworms are important for maintaining soil ecosystem functioning and serve as indicators of soil fertility. However, detection of earthworms is time-consuming, which hinders the assessment of earthworm abundances with high sampling density over entire fields. Recent developments of mobile terrestrial sensor platforms for proximal soil sensing (PSS) provided new tools for collecting dense spatial information of soils using various sensing principles. Yet, the potential of PSS for assessing earthworm habitats is largely unexplored. This study investigates whether PSS data contribute to the spatial prediction of earthworm abundances in species distribution models of agricultural soils.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000378859400042
DO  - DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0158271
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/811708
ER  -