Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

ZA Mekonnen, WJ Riley, LT Berner… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms

K Cawse-Nicholson, PA Townsend, D Schimel… - Remote sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2017–2027 National Academies' Decadal Survey, Thriving on Our Changing
Planet, recommended Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) as a “Designated Targeted …

[HTML][HTML] Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications

SL Ustin, EM Middleton - Ecological Processes, 2021 - Springer
There is an unprecedented array of new satellite technologies with capabilities for
advancing our understanding of ecological processes and the changing composition of the …

A best-practice guide to predicting plant traits from leaf-level hyperspectral data using partial least squares regression

AC Burnett, J Anderson, KJ Davidson… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Partial least squares regression (PLSR) modelling is a statistical technique for correlating
datasets, and involves the fitting of a linear regression between two matrices. One …

PROSPECT-PRO for estimating content of nitrogen-containing leaf proteins and other carbon-based constituents

JB Féret, K Berger, F De Boissieu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Models of radiative transfer (RT) are important tools for remote sensing of
vegetation, allowing for forward simulations of remotely sensed data as well as inverse …

Foliar functional traits from imaging spectroscopy across biomes in eastern North America

Z Wang, A Chlus, R Geygan, Z Ye, T Zheng… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Climate change effects on pathogen emergence: Artificial intelligence to translate big data for mitigation

KA Garrett, DP Bebber, BA Etherton… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Plant pathology has developed a wide range of concepts and tools for improving plant
disease management, including models for understanding and responding to new risks from …

From spectra to plant functional traits: Transferable multi-trait models from heterogeneous and sparse data

E Cherif, H Feilhauer, K Berger, PD Dao… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

A multi-omics approach to solving problems in plant disease ecology

SG Crandall, KM Gold, MM Jiménez-Gasco… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The swift rise of omics-approaches allows for investigating microbial diversity and plant-
microbe interactions across diverse ecological communities and spatio-temporal scales. The …

Generality of leaf spectroscopic models for predicting key foliar functional traits across continents: A comparison between physically-and empirically-based …

Z Wang, JB Féret, N Liu, Z Sun, L Yang, S Geng… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Leaf spectroscopy provides an efficient way of predicting foliar functional traits, commonly
using physically-and empirically-based models. However, the generality of both models has …