Remote sensing captures varying temporal patterns of vegetation between human-altered and natural landscapes
Global change has led to shifts in phenology, potentially disrupting species interactions such as plant–pollinator relationships. Advances in remote sensing techniques allow one to detect vegetation phenological diversity between different land use types, but it is not clear how this translates to o...
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doaj-e0dda3227c9c4607a9857218a82d51a52020-11-24T20:59:49ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ2167-83592015-08-013e114110.7717/peerj.1141Remote sensing captures varying temporal patterns of vegetation between human-altered and natural landscapesMisha Leong0George K. Roderick1Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States of AmericaDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of AmericaGlobal change has led to shifts in phenology, potentially disrupting species interactions such as plant–pollinator relationships. Advances in remote sensing techniques allow one to detect vegetation phenological diversity between different land use types, but it is not clear how this translates to other communities in the ecosystem. Here, we investigated the phenological diversity of the vegetation across a human-altered landscape including urban, agricultural, and natural land use types. We found that the patterns of change in the vegetation indices (EVI and NDVI) of human-altered landscapes are out of synchronization with the phenology in neighboring natural California grassland habitat. Comparing these findings to a spatio-temporal pollinator distribution dataset, EVI and NDVI were significant predictors of total bee abundance, a relationship that improved with time lags. This evidence supports the importance of differences in temporal dynamics between land use types. These findings also highlight the potential to utilize remote sensing data to make predictions for components of biodiversity that have tight vegetation associations, such as pollinators.https://peerj.com/articles/1141.pdfRemote sensingBeesEVINDVIUrbanMODIS |
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Remote sensing captures varying temporal patterns of vegetation between human-altered and natural landscapes |
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Remote sensing captures varying temporal patterns of vegetation between human-altered and natural landscapes |
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Remote sensing captures varying temporal patterns of vegetation between human-altered and natural landscapes |
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Remote sensing captures varying temporal patterns of vegetation between human-altered and natural landscapes |
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Remote sensing captures varying temporal patterns of vegetation between human-altered and natural landscapes |
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remote sensing captures varying temporal patterns of vegetation between human-altered and natural landscapes |
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Global change has led to shifts in phenology, potentially disrupting species interactions such as plant–pollinator relationships. Advances in remote sensing techniques allow one to detect vegetation phenological diversity between different land use types, but it is not clear how this translates to other communities in the ecosystem. Here, we investigated the phenological diversity of the vegetation across a human-altered landscape including urban, agricultural, and natural land use types. We found that the patterns of change in the vegetation indices (EVI and NDVI) of human-altered landscapes are out of synchronization with the phenology in neighboring natural California grassland habitat. Comparing these findings to a spatio-temporal pollinator distribution dataset, EVI and NDVI were significant predictors of total bee abundance, a relationship that improved with time lags. This evidence supports the importance of differences in temporal dynamics between land use types. These findings also highlight the potential to utilize remote sensing data to make predictions for components of biodiversity that have tight vegetation associations, such as pollinators. |
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