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Potential of ALOS2 Polarimetric Imagery to Support Management of Poplar Plantations in Northern Italy
Vaglio Laurin
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Gaia
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Mattioli
,
Walter
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Innocenti
,
Simone
,
Lombardo
,
Emanuela
,
Valentini
,
Riccardo
,
Puletti
,
Nicola
Mostra abstract
Poplar is one of the most widespread fast-growing forest species. In Northern Italy, plantations are characterized by large interannual fluctuations, requiring frequent monitoring to inform on wood supply and to manage the stands. The use of radar satellite data is proving useful for forest monitoring, being weather independent and sensitive to the changes in forest canopy structure, but it has been scarcely tested in the case of poplar. Here, L-band ALOS2 (Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2) dual-pol data were tested to detect clear-cut plantations in consecutive years. ALOS2 quad-pol data were used to discriminate among different age classes, a much complex task than detecting poplar plantations extent. Results from different machine learning algorithms indicate that with dual-pol data, poplar forest can be discriminated from clear-cut areas with 80% overall accuracy, similar to what is usually obtained with optical data. With quad-pol data, four age classes were classified with moderate overall accuracy (73%) based on polarimetric decompositions, three 3 age classes with higher accuracy (87%) based on HV band. Sources of error are represented by poplar areas of intermediate age when stems, branches and leaves were not developed enough to detect by scattering mechanisms. This study demonstrates the feasibility of monitoring poplar plantations with satellite radar, which represents a growing source of information thanks to already-planned future satellite missions. © 2022 by the authors.
MASTREE+: Time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents
Hacket-Pain
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Andrew J.
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Foest
,
Jessie J.
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Pearse
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Ian S.
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LaMontagne
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Jalene M.
,
Koenig
,
Walter D.
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Vacchiano
,
Giorgio
,
Bogdziewicz
,
Michał
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Caignard
,
Thomas
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Celebias
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Paulina
,
van Dormolen
,
Joep
,
Fernández-Martínez
,
Marcos
,
Moris
,
Jose V.
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Palaghianu
,
Ciprian
,
Pesendorfer
,
Mario B.
,
Satake
,
Akiko
,
Schermer
,
Éliane
,
Tanentzap
,
Andrew J.
,
Thomas
,
Peter A.
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Vecchio
,
Davide
,
Wion
,
Andreas P.
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Wohlgemuth
,
Thomas
,
Xue
,
Tingting
,
Abernethy
,
Katharine A.
,
Aravena Acuña
,
Marie Claire
,
Barrera
,
Marcelo Daniel
,
Barton
,
Jessica H.
,
Boutin
,
Stan A.
,
Bush
,
Emma R.
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Donoso Calderón
,
Sergio R.
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Carevic
,
Felipe S.
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Castilho
,
Carolina V.
,
Manuel Cellini
,
Juan
,
Chapman
,
Colin A.
,
Chapman
,
H. M.
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Chianucci
,
Francesco
,
Costa
,
Patricia Da
,
Croisé
,
Luc
,
Cutini
,
Andrea
,
Dantzer
,
Ben J.
,
DeRose
,
Robert Justin
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Dikangadissi
,
Jean Thoussaint
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Dimoto
,
Edmond
,
da Fonseca
,
Fernanda Lopes
,
Gallo
,
Leonardo Ariel
,
Gratzer
,
Georg
,
Greene
,
David F.
,
Hadad
,
Martín Ariel
,
Huertas Herrera
,
Alejandro
,
Jeffery
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Kathryn J.
,
Johnstone
,
Jill F.
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Kalbitzer
,
Urs
,
Kantorowicz
,
Władysław
,
Klimas
,
Christie Ann
,
Lageard
,
Jonathan G.A.
,
Lane
,
Jeffrey E.
,
Lapin
,
Katharina
,
Ledwoń
,
Mateusz
,
Leeper
,
Abigail C.
,
Lencinas
,
María Vanessa
,
Lira-Guedes
,
Ana Cláudia
,
Lordon
,
Michael C.
,
Marchelli
,
Paula
,
Marino
,
Shealyn
,
Schmidt van Marle
,
Harald
,
McAdam
,
Andrew G.
,
Momont
,
Ludovic R.W.
,
Nicolas
,
Manuel
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de Oliveira Wadt
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Lúcia Helena
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Panahi
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Parisa
,
Martínez Pastur
,
Guillermo J.
,
Patterson
,
Thomas W.
,
Luis Peri
,
Pablo
,
Piechnik
,
Łukasz
,
Pourhashemi
,
Mehdi
,
Espinoza Quezada
,
Claudia
,
Roig
,
Fidel Alejandro
,
Peña-Rojas
,
Karen A.
,
Rosas
,
Yamina Micaela
,
Schueler
,
Silvio
,
Seget
,
Barbara
,
Soler
,
Rosina M.
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Steele
,
Michael A.
,
Toro Manríquez
,
Mónica Del Rosario
,
Tutin
,
Caroline E.G.
,
Ukizintambara
,
Tharcisse
,
White
,
Lee J.T.
,
Yadok
,
Biplang Godwill
,
Willis
,
John L.
,
Zolles
,
Anita
,
Żywiec
,
Magdalena
,
Ascoli
,
Davide
Mostra abstract
Significant gaps remain in understanding the response of plant reproduction to environmental change. This is partly because measuring reproduction in long-lived plants requires direct observation over many years and such datasets have rarely been made publicly available. Here we introduce MASTREE+, a data set that collates reproductive time-series data from across the globe and makes these data freely available to the community. MASTREE+ includes 73,828 georeferenced observations of annual reproduction (e.g. seed and fruit counts) in perennial plant populations worldwide. These observations consist of 5971 population-level time-series from 974 species in 66 countries. The mean and median time-series length is 12.4 and 10 years respectively, and the data set includes 1122 series that extend over at least two decades (≥20 years of observations). For a subset of well-studied species, MASTREE+ includes extensive replication of time-series across geographical and climatic gradients. Here we describe the open-access data set, available as a.csv file, and we introduce an associated web-based app for data exploration. MASTREE+ will provide the basis for improved understanding of the response of long-lived plant reproduction to environmental change. Additionally, MASTREE+ will enable investigation of the ecology and evolution of reproductive strategies in perennial plants, and the role of plant reproduction as a driver of ecosystem dynamics. © 2022 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.