This research refers to an object‐based automatic method combined with a national expert validation to produce regional and national forest cover change statistics over C ongo B asin. A total of 547 sampling sites systematically distributed over the whole humid forest domain are required to cover the six C entral A frican countries containing tropical moist forest. High resolution imagery is used to accurately estimate not onl...

Aim To assess the relative roles of environment and space in driving bird species distribution and to identify relevant drivers of bird assemblage composition, in the case of a fine‐scale bird atlas data set. Location The study was carried out in southern Belgium using grid cells of 1 × 1 km, based on the distribution maps of the Oiseaux nicheurs de Famenne: Atlas de Lesse et Lomme which contains abundance for 103 bird species...