This special issue of Remote Sensing of Environment is dedicated to results from research carried out under two NASA-sponsored Multisensor Aircraft Campaigns (MACs) focused on forest ecosystems: the FED (Forest Ecosystems Dynamics) study, which focused on a research site near Howland, Maine (Levine et al., 1993) and the OTTER (Oregon Transect Terrestrial Ecosystems Research) study, which examin...

I. INTRODUCTION We humans tend to worry first about our own happiness, then about our families, then about our communities. In times of great stress, such as war or natural disaster, we may focus temporarily on our country but we rarely think about Earth as a whole or the human species as a whole. This narrow perspective, perhaps best exemplified by the American consumer, has led to the environ...

The female and male of Dasybasis (Agelanius) cortesi, new species, is described and illustrated from specimens collected in the National Reserve of Río Clarillo, Cordillera Province, Central Chile. Its relationships to other Dasybasis species are discussed.