title: Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (World Wildlife Fund Ecoregion Assessments)
author: Taylor H. Ricketts
description: <DIV>The authors are all affiliated with the Conservation Science Program of World Wildlife Fund. The World Wildlife Fund is the largest privately supported international conservation organization in the world with more than one million members in the U.S. alone. <P>Authors:<BR>Taylor H. Ricketts<BR>Eric Dinerstein<BR>David M. Olson<BR>Colby J. Loucks<BR>William Eichbaum<BR>Dominick DellaSala<BR>Kevin Kavanagh<BR>Prashant Hedao<BR>Patrick T. Hurley<BR>Karen M. Carney<BR>Robin Abell<BR>Steven Walters <P>Contributors:<BR>Jonathan Adams<BR>Will Allen<BR>Sandy Andelman<BR>Alan G. Appleby<BR>James F. Bergan<BR>John Broadhead<BR>Dirk Bryant<BR>Steve Buttrick<BR>Steve Chaplin<BR>Roberta Clowater<BR>Terry Cook<BR>Jim Cooperman<BR>Robin Cox<BR>Lance Craighead<BR>David Culver<BR>Mary Davis<BR>Dennis Demarchi<BR>Jim Eidson<BR>Amy Farstad<BR>Thomas Fleischner<BR>R. Glenn Ford<BR>Dave Foreman<BR>Steve Gatewood<BR>Jim Goltz<BR>Sam Gon<BR>Louise Gratton<BR>Tim Gray<BR>Anne Gunn<BR>Arlin Hackman<BR>Randy Hagenstein<BR>Ron Heyer<BR>Bob Holland<BR>Tony Iacobelli<BR>Laura Jackson<BR>John Kartesz<BR>James MacMahon<BR>Kate MacQuarrie<BR>Geoff Mann<BR>Bill Meades<BR>Rod Mondt<BR>Janet Moore<BR>David Neaves<BR>Jim Nelson<BR>Reed Noss<BR>Chris O'Brien<BR>Sebastian Oosenbrug<BR>Gordon Orians<BR>Juri Peepre<BR>Ajith Perera<BR>Robert Peters<BR>Steve Primm<BR>Scott Robinson<BR>Jon-Paul Rodriquez<BR>John Sawyer<BR>Rick Schneider<BR>Jennifer Shay<BR>Marni Sims<BR>Phillip Sims<BR>Fred E. Smeins <BR>George Smith<BR>Scott Smith<BR>Randy Snodgrass<BR>Colin Stewart<BR>Jim Strittholt<BR>Emma Underwood<BR>Robyn Usher<BR>Alasdair Veitch<BR>Alan Weakley<BR>Wesley W. Wettengel<BR>Gaile Whelan-Enns<BR>Chris Williams<BR>Don Wilson<BR>Kim Wolfe<BR>Nathalie Zinger <P>This volume is the first in a series. This series also includes Freshwater Ecoregions of North America, 2000, and Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific, 2001, and The Ecoregions Series which includes all 3 volumes at the discounted price of $185.00. <P>Taylor H. Ricketts is affiliated with the Conservation Science Program of World Wildlife Fund. <P>Eric Dinerstein is Chief Scientist and Vice-President for Science at the World Wildlife Fund-US. He has participated in or overseen conservation research around the world, he is one of the editors of WWF's Ecosystem Assessment series, and he is the author of a monograph on rhinos: Return of the Unicorns: The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater-One Horned Rhinoceros (Columbia University Press). <P></P></DIV></P></P></P></P></P>
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  Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 1370; doi:10.3390/rs12091370 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing 
  Editorial 
  Remote Sensing Applications in Monitoring of 
  Protected Areas  
  Yeqiao Wang 1,*, Zhong Lu 2, Yongwei Sheng 3 and Yuyu Zhou 4 
  1 Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA 
  2 Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA; 
  zhonglu@smu.edu 
  3 Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; 
  ysheng@geog.ucla.edu 
  4 Department of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; 
  yuyuzhou@iastate.edu 
  * Correspondence: yqwang@uri.edu  
  Received: 21 April 2020; Accepted: 24 April 2020; Published: 26 April 2020 
  Abstract: Protected areas (PAs) have been established worldwide for achieving long-term goals in 
  the conservation of nature with the associated ecosystem services and cultural values. Globally, 15% 
  of the