Evaluating an unmanned aerial vehicle-based approach for assessing habitat extent and condition in fine-scale early successional mountain mosaics
This study was developed as part of the LIFE+ project ‘Higro’ (Demonstrative Actions for the Conservation of Priority Habitats in Northern Mountain Areas in Portugal; LIFE09NAT/PT/000043). Jo~ao Gonc alves was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT; PhD grant nr. SFRH/BD/90112/2012). Rita SousaSilva is supported by a PhD grant from KU Leuven in the framework of the FORBIO Climate project, ﬁnanced by BRAIN.be, Belgian Research Action through INterdisciplinary research. Ant onio T. Monteiro is supported through the Project ‘Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change’, co-ﬁnanced by North Portugal Regional Operational Programme 2007/2013 (ON.2 – O Novo Norte), under the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). A. Lomba is supported by the PFST through Post-Doctoral Fellowship SFRH/BPD/80747/2011. Bruno Marcos received support from FEDER/COMPETE and FCT through project grant ‘IND_CHANGE’ (PTDC/AAG-MAA/ 4539/2012– FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-027863).