Ecosystem Surveillance Monitoring - Applications
- Bernardo Blanco-Martin
Owned by Bernardo Blanco-Martin
Some potential uses of AusPlots Data and Samples include:
- Isotopic or genetic analysis of soil and plant samples
- Classification of vegetation types
- Validation of remotely sensed ground cover data (e.g. fractional cover)
- Species presence/absence for training or validation of species distribution models
- Patterns (spatial, across gradients) in: fractional cover (e.g. proportion of green cover), growth form, and community structure composition
- Time series analysis (increasingly possible, currently > 100 sites with revisits) to assess seasonal differences and trends and/or compare to time series remote sensing imagery
- Development of ecological indicators for disturbance