Spatial monitoring of grassland management using multi-temporal satellite imagery

F Stumpf, MK Schneider, A Keller, A Mayr… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Spatial monitoring of grassland management is crucial for ecosystem assessment and the
establishment of sustainable agriculture. Switzerland is covered by large areas of small …

Predicting habitat quality of protected dry grasslands using Landsat NDVI phenology

D Weber, G Schaepman-Strub, K Ecker - Ecological Indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Dry grasslands are species rich and ecologically valuable habitats that have experienced a
massive decline in Switzerland during the last century due to agricultural intensification and …

Effects of urban structure on plant species richness in a large European city

KJ Schmidt, HH Poppendieck, K Jensen - Urban Ecosystems, 2014 - Springer
Urban areas have developed under anthropogenic impact and hence feature strongly
altered environmental conditions that influence today's plant species distribution. Generally …

Near‐infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) predicts non‐structural carbohydrate concentrations in different tissue types of a broad range of tree species

JA Ramirez, JM Posada, IT Handa… - Methods in Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The allocation of non‐structural carbohydrates (NSC s) to reserves constitutes an important
physiological mechanism associated with tree growth and survival. However, procedures for …

Determination of the food dye indigotine in cream by near-infrared spectroscopy technology combined with random forest model

S Zhang, Z Tan, J Liu, Z Xu, Z Du - … Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Artificial pigment is a common food additive in cream products. If added in excess, it will do
harm to human body. At present, there is no research on the detection of cream pigment by …

Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits

B Shipley, M Belluau, I Kühn… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Questions Heinz Ellenberg classically defined “indicator” scores for species
representing their typical positions along gradients of key environmental variables, and …

Threatened and specialist species suffer from increased wood cover and productivity in Swiss steppes

S Boch, A Bedolla, KT Ecker, C Ginzler, U Graf… - Flora, 2019 - Elsevier
In Switzerland, steppe vegetation is restricted to inner alpine dry valleys in the West (Valais)
and the East (Grisons). They harbour many specialist and threatened species. In 2011, a …

Optical trait indicators for remote sensing of plant species composition: Predictive power and seasonal variability

H Feilhauer, B Somers, S van der Linden - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Most plant species feature similar biochemical compositions and thus similar spectral
signals. Still, empirical evidence suggests that the spectral discrimination of species and …

Ecological indicator values and life history traits of terricolous lichens of the Western Carpathians

AD Košuthová, J Šibík - Ecological Indicators, 2013 - Elsevier
Plant indicator values are widely used in ecological studies, but they are not well developed
for cryptogams, what prevents their application in some environments such as lichen-rich …

Using statistical tests on relative ecological indicator values to compare vegetation units–Different approaches and weighting methods

C Tölgyesi, Z Bátori, L Erdős - Ecological Indicators, 2014 - Elsevier
Relative ecological indicators are frequently used tools in vegetation analyses. Despite their
ordinal nature, it has been shown that average indicator values can characterize an area …