Proximal soil sensing - A contribution for species habitat distribution modelling of earthworms in agricultural soils?
Schirrmann M, Joschko M, Gebbers R, Kramer E, Zörner M, Barkusky D, Timmer J.
PLoS One. 2016;11(6):e0158271.
Earthworms are important for maintaining soil ecosystem functioning and serve as indicators of soil fertility. 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. This study investigates whether PSS data contribute to the spatial prediction of earthworm abundances in species distribution models of agricultural soils.
