New perspective for the upscaling of plant functional response to flooding stress in salt marshes using remote sensing.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the response of salt marshes to flooding is crucial to foresee the fate of these fragile ecosystems, requiring an upscaling approach. In this study we related plant species and community response to multispectral indices aiming at parsing the power of remote sensing to detect the environmental stress due to flooding in lagoon salt marshes. We studied the response of Salicornia fruticosa (L.) L. and associated plant community along a flooding and soil texture gradient in nine lagoon salt marshes in northern Italy. We considered community (i.e., species richness, dry biomass, plant height, dry matter content) and individual traits (i.e., annual growth, pigments, and secondary metabolites) to analyze the effect of flooding depth and its interplay with soil properties. We also ca

SUBMITTER: Vuerich M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10914724 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature