Digital whole-community phenotyping: tracking morphological and physiological responses of plant communities to environmental changes in the field.

ABSTRACT: Plant traits are informative for ecosystem functions and processes and help to derive general rules and predictions about responses to environmental gradients, global change and perturbations. Ecological field studies often use 'low-throughput' methods to assess plant phenotypes and integrate species-specific traits to community-wide indices. In contrast, agricultural greenhouse or lab-based studies often employ 'high-throughput phenotyping' to assess plant individuals tracking their growth or fertilizer and water demand. In ecological field studies, remote sensing makes use of freely movable devices like satellites or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which provide large-scale spatial and temporal data. Adopting such methods for community ecology on a smaller scale may provide novel insight

SUBMITTER: Zieschank V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10203609 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature