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At the centre of concerns related to curbing the decline in forest biodiversity caused by increasing anthropogenic pressure and global change, old-growth forests are mainly characterised by the continuity of their tree cover. This has been defined mainly by their appearance on historical maps and by ecological criteria dating back to certain temporal cut-off points (about two centuries). Inherited over hundreds, even thousands, of years of interaction between Man and Nature, these ancient forests have been managed and shaped by past societies to meet their various needs, both domestic and industrial. Also, studying the historical trajectories of such forests, their responses to environmental and anthropogenic stress, and the long-term consequences of past human activities, is essential in order to better understand their current ecology and rethink their conservation. The development of pluridisciplinary and interdisciplinary research (ecology, paleoecology, history, archaeology, geography, sociology) now makes it possible not only to push back the hitherto accepted thresholds of ancientness, but in particular to understand old forests in their entirety and complexity over the longer term. This book, comprising both theoretical and methodological contributions along with case studies, reflects the diversity of current approaches and thinking and promotes interdisciplinarity as the only route to a comprehensive understanding of ancient forests as natural and cultural assets.

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have already become an affordable and cost-efficient tool to quickly map a targeted area for many emerging applications in the arena of ecological monitoring and biodiversity conservation. Managers, owners, companies, and scientists are using professional drones equipped with high-resolution visible, multispectral, or thermal cameras to assess the state of ecosystems, the effect of disturbances, or the dynamics and changes within biological communities inter alia. We are now at a tipping point on the use of drones for these type of applications over natural areas. UAV missions are increasing but most of them are testing applicability. It is time now to move to frequent revisiting missions, aiding in the retrieval of important biophysical parameters in ecosystems or mapping species distributions. This Special Issue shows UAV applications contributing to a better understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem status, threats, changes, and trends. It documents the enhancement of knowledge in ecological integrity parameters mapping, long-term ecological monitoring based on drones, mapping of alien species spread and distribution, upscaling ecological variables from drone to satellite images: methods and approaches, rapid risk and disturbance assessment using drones, mapping albedo with UAVs, wildlife tracking, bird colony and chimpanzee nest mapping, habitat mapping and monitoring, and a review on drones for conservation in protected areas.

UAV --- great apes --- conservation --- survey --- Tanzania --- image resolution --- UAV --- aerial survey --- long-term monitoring --- Plegadis falcinellus --- bird censuses --- supervised classification --- image processing --- radio-tracking --- Motus --- drone --- boreal forest --- precision --- accuracy --- response surface --- forêt Montmorency --- UAVs --- ecological integrity --- LTER --- LTSER --- multispectral mapping --- ground-truth --- Parrot Sequoia --- Sentinel-2 --- hyperspectral --- UAS --- native grassland --- random forest --- low-cost UAV --- greenness index --- Pinus nigra --- Pinus sylvestris --- forest regeneration --- flight altitude --- small UAV --- unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) --- field experiments --- LTSER --- drought --- multiscale approach --- NDVI --- Sequoia --- protected areas --- drones --- RPAS --- conservation --- effective management --- biodiversity threats --- UAV --- albedo --- hyperspectral --- Landsat 8 --- Sentinel-2 --- Sentinel --- UAV --- Parrot SEQUOIA --- multispectral --- vegetation indices --- rice crops --- western swamphen --- UAVs --- ecological monitoring --- biological conservation --- drone mapping --- biodiversity --- phenology