Abstract The 2017–2027 National Academies' Decadal Survey, Thriving on Our Changing
Planet, recommended Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) as a “Designated Targeted …

Environmental conditions are very changeable; fluctuations in temperature, precipitation,
illumination intensity, and other factors can decrease a plant productivity and crop. The …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

Invasive plant species can pose major threats to biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and
services. Satellite based remote sensing has evolved as an important technology to spatially …

Foliar functional traits are widely used to characterize leaf and canopy properties that drive
ecosystem processes and to infer physiological processes in Earth system models. Imaging …

Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Large-scale information on several vegetation properties ('plant traits') is critical to assess
ecosystem functioning, functional diversity and their role in the Earth system. Hyperspectral …

Aim The spectral variability hypothesis (SVH) suggests a link between spectral variation and
plant biodiversity. The underlying assumptions are that higher spectral variation in canopy …

Increasing evidence suggests that remotely sensed spectral diversity is linked to plant
species richness. However, a conflicting spectral diversity–biodiversity relationship in …

Global maps of plant functional traits are essential for studying the dynamics of the terrestrial
biosphere, yet the spatial distribution of trait measurements remains sparse. With the …