All the light we cannot see: Climate manipulations leave short and long-term imprints in spectral reflectance of trees.

ABSTRACT: Anthropogenic climate change, particularly changes in temperature and precipitation, affects plants in multiple ways. Because plants respond dynamically to stress and acclimate to changes in growing conditions, diagnosing quantitative plant-environment relationships is a major challenge. One approach to this problem is to quantify leaf responses using spectral reflectance, which provides rapid, inexpensive, and nondestructive measurements that capture a wealth of information about genotype as well as phenotypic responses to the environment. However, it is unclear how warming and drought affect spectra. To address this gap, we used an open-air field experiment that manipulates temperature and rainfall in 36 plots at two sites in the boreal-temperate ecotone of northern Minnesota, USA. We co

SUBMITTER: Stefanski A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12079083 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature