Scientists win UN data prize for monitoring threats to South African biodiversity hotspot

(University at Buffalo) The team created a digital tool that maps and analyzes vegetation in the fynbos, a belt of ecologically important shrubland in the Cape Floristic Region. The system can detect abnormal changes in fynbos plant life. Similar tools could be useful for monitoring ecosystems such as those in the Mediterranean Basin, California or South Western Australia.
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