We then compared these dissimilarity values to the Canadian human footprint, and found that high levels of anthropogenic pressures impact structural integrity, but not functional integrity.

We combined coarsened exact matching and sigma dissimilarity to compare all environmentally similar forests to high-quality protected reference states in Strathcona Park which accounts for protected area biases and accounts for collinearity between and within structural and functional attributes.

Happy to share that the third paper from my PhD is now published! We estimated remote sensing-derived forest structural and functional integrity on Vancouver Island and examined the influence of anthropogenic pressure on these metrics. Open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...