Quantifying large-scale ecosystem stability with remote sensing data.

ABSTRACT: To fully understand ecosystem functioning under global change, we need to be able to measure the stability of ecosystem functioning at multiple spatial scales. Although a number of stability components have been established at small spatial scales, there has been little progress in scaling these measures up to the landscape. Remote sensing data holds huge potential for studying processes at landscape scales but requires quantitative measures that are comparable from experimental field data to satellite remote sensing. Here we present a methodology to extract four components of ecosystem functioning stability from satellite-derived time series of Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) data. The four stability components are as follows: variability, resistance, recovery time and recovery rate in ec

SUBMITTER: White HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7582121 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature