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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/
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