Monitoring Winter Stress Vulnerability of High-Latitude Understory Vegetation Using Intraspecific Trait Variability and Remote Sensing Approaches

• Published in: Sensors
• Main Authors: Ritz, Elmar, Bjerke, Jarle W., Tømmervik, Hans
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: climate change; evergreen plants; extreme events; flavonol and chlorophyll sensor (Dualex); greenness indices; mosses; near-remote sensing active and passive NDVI sensors; Sentinel-2; subarctic vegetation damage; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480; The Sentinel; Empetrum nigrum; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2651679; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20072102

In this study, we focused on three species that have proven to be vulnerable to winter stress: Empetrum nigrum, Vaccinium vitis-idaea and Hylocomium splendens. Our objective was to determine plant traits suitable for monitoring plant stress as well as trait shifts during spring. To this end, we used...