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Remote sensing of plant functional types
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Summary: Conceptually, plant functional types represent a classification scheme between species and broad vegetation types. Historically, these were based on physiological, structural and/or phenological properties, whereas recently, they have reflected plant responses to resources or environmental conditions. Often, an underlying assumption, based on an economic analogy, is that the functional role of vegetation can be identified by linked sets of morphological and physiological traits constrained by resources, based on the hypothesis of functional convergence. Using these concepts, ecologists have defined a variety of functional traits that are often context dependent, and the diversity of proposed traits demonstrates the lack of agreement on universal categories. Historically, remotely sensed data have been interpreted in ways that parallel these observations, often focused on the categorization of vegetation into discrete types, often dependent on the sampling scale. At the same time, current thinking in both ecology and remote sensing has moved towards viewing vegetation as a continuum rather than as discrete classes. The capabilities of new remote sensing instruments have led us to propose a new concept of optically distinguishable functional types (‘optical types’) as a unique way to address the scale dependence of this problem. This would ensure more direct relationships between ecological information and remote sensing observations. Contents Summary 795 I. Introduction 796 II. History of functional‐type classifications of vegetation 796 III. History of remote sensing of vegetation 799 IV. New sensors and perspectives 802 V. Measuring detailed canopy structure 806 VI. The emerging hypothesis of ‘optical types’ 810 VII. Conclusions 811 Acknowledgements 811 References 811
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- Ustin, S. L., & Gamon, J. A.
- Venue
- New Phytologist
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-05-10
- Volume
- 186
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 795-816
- ISSN
- 0028-646X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8137
- OpenAlex
- W1497751391
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- 612
- References
- 136
- FWCI
- 18.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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