Retrieving Foliar Traits of Quercus garryana var. garryana across a Modified Landscape Using Leaf Spectroscopy and LiDAR

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Retrieving Foliar Traits of Quercus garryana var. garryana across a Modified Landscape Using Leaf Spectroscopy and LiDAR Hacker, Paul W.; Coops, Nicholas C.; Townsend, Philip A.; Wang, Zhihui

Abstract

Understanding the ecological effects of human activities on an ecosystem is integral to the implementation of conservation management plans. The plasticity of plant functional traits presents an opportunity to examine the capacity for intraspecific functional trait variations to be indicators of anthropogenic landscape modifications. The presence of intraspecific trait variation would indicate that plants of a single species could to be used to evaluate and map functional diversity, a common metric used to measure biodiversity. This study uses leaf spectroscopy, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and partial least squares regression (PLSR) to examine the intraspecific variation of functional traits in a population of 40 Quercus garryana experiencing varying levels of anthropogenic influence at the site level (

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Title	Retrieving Foliar Traits of Quercus garryana var. garryana across a Modified Landscape Using Leaf Spectroscopy and LiDAR
Creator	Hacker, Paul W.; Coops, Nicholas C.; Townsend, Philip A.; Wang, Zhihui
Publisher	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Date Issued	2019-12-19
Description	Understanding the ecological effects of human activities on an ecosystem is integral to the implementation of conservation management plans. The plasticity of plant functional traits presents an opportunity to examine the capacity for intraspecific functional trait variations to be indicators of anthropogenic landscape modifications. The presence of intraspecific trait variation would indicate that plants of a single species could to be used to evaluate and map functional diversity, a common metric used to measure biodiversity. This study uses leaf spectroscopy, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and partial least squares regression (PLSR) to examine the intraspecific variation of functional traits in a population of 40 Quercus garryana experiencing varying levels of anthropogenic influence at the site level (
Subject	spectroscopy; functional diversity; biodiversity; partial least-squares regression; functional traits; intraspecific; hyperspectral
Genre	Article
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2020-01-10
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	CC BY 4.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0388281
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/73304
Affiliation	Forestry, Faculty of; Non UBC; Forest Resources Management, Department of
Citation	Remote Sensing 12 (1): 26 (2019)
Publisher DOI	10.3390/rs12010026
Peer Review Status	Reviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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