A Remote Sensing Approach to Understanding Patterns of Secondary Succession in Tropical Forest
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area and Field Plot Network
2.2. Survey Methods
2.3. Satellite Imaging Surveys
2.4. Diversity Indices Computed from Ground Inventories
2.4.1. Alpha-Diversity
2.4.2. Beta-Diversity
2.4.3. Remote Sensing Analyses
2.5. Comparison between Ground Observations and Remotely Sensed Information
2.5.1. Spatial Sampling of Satellite Images
2.5.2. Alpha and Beta-Diversity Analyses
2.5.3. Mapping Forest Age
3. Results
3.1. Alpha Diversity
3.2. Beta Diversity
3.2.1. Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity
3.2.2. Ordination of Bray Curtis Dissimilarity Computed from Sentinel-2
3.3. Mapping Forest Age
4. Discussion
4.1. Alpha and Beta-Diversity Comparison
4.2. Mapping Forest Age
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Site | Age (Years) | Altitude (m) | Site | Age (Years) | Altitude (m) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AME | 0 | 207 | VCR | 65 | 352 |
UpLop1 | 0 | 550 | BR1 | 70 | 321 |
OA | 0 | 100 | UC1 | 75 | 158 |
SASC | 0 | 92 | OT1 | 80 | 185 |
ERE | 0 | 6 | MW8 | 80 | 244 |
Lop1 | 0 | 167 | LAL | 80 | 471 |
BSC | 0 | 52 | MSB | 100 | 267 |
Sim1 | 25 | 211 | LHC | 100 | 360 |
MSBT | 25 | 467 | SCA | 100 | 217 |
BST | 30 | 100 | GL | 100 | 373 |
CMA | 40 | 122 | LLP | 200 | 528 |
CH | 40 | 90 | LALP | 200 | 550 |
BR2 | 45 | 334 | NRGS | 200 | 297 |
OT2 | 50 | 221 | VCRP | 200 | 148 |
C1 | 50 | 149 |
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Chraibi, E.; Arnold, H.; Luque, S.; Deacon, A.; Magurran, A.E.; Féret, J.-B. A Remote Sensing Approach to Understanding Patterns of Secondary Succession in Tropical Forest. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 2148. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112148
Chraibi E, Arnold H, Luque S, Deacon A, Magurran AE, Féret J-B. A Remote Sensing Approach to Understanding Patterns of Secondary Succession in Tropical Forest. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(11):2148. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112148
Chicago/Turabian StyleChraibi, Eric, Haley Arnold, Sandra Luque, Amy Deacon, Anne E. Magurran, and Jean-Baptiste Féret. 2021. "A Remote Sensing Approach to Understanding Patterns of Secondary Succession in Tropical Forest" Remote Sensing 13, no. 11: 2148. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112148