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Temporal dynamics of spectral bioindicators evidence biological and ecological differences among functional types in a cork oak open woodland

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The application of spectral vegetation indices for the purpose of vegetation monitoring and modeling increased largely in recent years. Nonetheless, the interpretation of biophysical properties of vegetation through their spectral signature is still a challenging task. This is particularly true in Mediterranean oak forest characterized by a high spatial and temporal heterogeneity. In this study, the temporal dynamics of vegetation indices expected to be related with green biomass and photosynthetic efficiency were compared for the canopy of trees, the herbaceous layer, and two shrub species: cistus (Cistus salviifolius) and ulex (Ulex airensis). coexisting in a cork oak woodland. All indices were calculated from in situ measurements with a FieldSpec3 spectroradiometer (ASD Inc., Boulder, USA). Large differences emerged in the temporal trends and in the correlation between climate and vegetation indices. The relationship between spectral indices and temperature, radiation, and vapor pressure deficit for cork oak was opposite to that observed for the herbaceous layer and cistus. No correlation was observed between rainfall and vegetation indices in cork oak and ulex, but in the herbaceous layer and in the cistus, significant correlations were found. The analysis of spectral vegetation indices with fraction of absorbed PAR (fPAR) and quantum yield of chlorophyll fluorescence (ΔF/Fm′) evidenced strongest relationships with the indices Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) and Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI)512, respectively. Our results, while confirms the ability of spectral vegetation indices to represent temporal dynamics of biophysical properties of vegetation, evidence the importance to consider ecosystem composition for a correct ecological interpretation of results when the spatial resolution of observations includes different plant functional types.

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Sofia Cerasoli and Filipe Silva are postdoc fellows of the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Ministry of Science and education (BPD/SFRH/78998/2011). João Silva is a research associate at the School of Agriculture, with funding from the FCT (Ciência 2008 program). Field work was funded by FCT (PEst-OE/AGR/UI0239/2011) in the framework of the research activities of the Forest Research Centre.

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Cerasoli, S., Costa e Silva, F. & Silva, J.M.N. Temporal dynamics of spectral bioindicators evidence biological and ecological differences among functional types in a cork oak open woodland. Int J Biometeorol 60, 813–825 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-015-1075-x

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