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Title: Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data
Authors: Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús
Rifai, Sami Walid
Shenkin, Alexander
Oliveras, I.
Bentley, Lisa Patrick
Svátek, Martin
Girardin, Cécile A.J.
Both, Sabine
Riutta, Terhi
Berenguer, Erika
Kissling, Wilm Daniel
Bauman, David
Raab, Nicolas
Moore, Sam
Farfan-Rios, William
Figueiredo, Axa Emanuelle Simões
Reis, Simone Matias A.
Ndong, Josué Edzang
Ondo, Fidèle Evouna
Bengone, Natacha Nssi
Mihindou, Vianet
Moraes de Seixas, Marina Maria
Adu-Bredu, Stephen
Abernethy, Katharine A.
Asner, Gregory P.
Barlow, Jos
Burslem, David F.R.P.
Coomes, David Anthony
Cernusak, Lucas A.
Dargie, Greta C.
Enquist, Brian J.
Ewers, Robert M.
Ferreira, Joice Nunes
Jeffery, Kathryn J.
Joly, Carlos Alfredo
Lewis, Simon L.
Marimon Júnior, Ben Hur
Martin, Roberta E.
Morandi, Paulo Sérgio
Phillips, Oliver L.
Quesada, Carlos Alberto
Salinas, Norma
Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes
Silman, Miles R.
Teh, Yit Arn
White, Lee J.T.
Malhi, Yadvinder Singh
Keywords: Image texture
Pixel-level predictions
Plant traits
Random Forest
Sentinel-2
Tropical Forests
Issue Date: 2021
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Remote Sensing of Environment
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 252
Abstract: Tropical forest ecosystems are undergoing rapid transformation as a result of changing environmental conditions and direct human impacts. However, we cannot adequately understand, monitor or simulate tropical ecosystem responses to environmental changes without capturing the high diversity of plant functional characteristics in the species-rich tropics. Failure to do so can oversimplify our understanding of ecosystems responses to environmental disturbances. Innovative methods and data products are needed to track changes in functional trait composition in tropical forest ecosystems through time and space. This study aimed to track key functional traits by coupling Sentinel-2 derived variables with a unique data set of precisely located in-situ measurements of canopy functional traits collected from 2434 individual trees across the tropics using a standardised methodology. The functional traits and vegetation censuses were collected from 47 field plots in the countries of Australia, Brazil, Peru, Gabon, Ghana, and Malaysia, which span the four tropical continents. The spatial positions of individual trees above 10 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) were mapped and their canopy size and shape recorded. Using geo-located tree canopy size and shape data, community-level trait values were estimated at the same spatial resolution as Sentinel-2 imagery (i.e. 10 m pixels). We then used the Geographic Random Forest (GRF) to model and predict functional traits across our plots. We demonstrate that key plant functional traits can be accurately predicted across the tropicsusing the high spatial and spectral resolution of Sentinel-2 imagery in conjunction with climatic and soil information. Image textural parameters were found to be key components of remote sensing information for predicting functional traits across tropical forests and woody savannas. Leaf thickness (R2 = 0.52) obtained the highest prediction accuracy among the morphological and structural traits and leaf carbon content (R2 = 0.70) and maximum rates of photosynthesis (R2 = 0.67) obtained the highest prediction accuracy for leaf chemistry and photosynthesis related traits, respectively. Overall, the highest prediction accuracy was obtained for leaf chemistry and photosynthetic traits in comparison to morphological and structural traits. Our approach offers new opportunities for mapping, monitoring and understanding biodiversity and ecosystem change in the most species-rich ecosystems on Earth. © 2020 Elsevier Inc.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112122
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