Taxonomy and remote sensing of leaf mass per area (LMA) in humid tropical forests

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-98

  Asner, Gregory P ^a   Martin, Roberta E ^a   Tupayachi, Raul ^a   Emerson, Ruth ^a   Martinez, Paola ^a   Sinca, Felipe ^a   Powell, George V N ^b   Wright, S Joseph ^c   Lugo, Ariel E ^d  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Canopy chemistry; Imaging spectraoscopy; Leaf mass per area; Leaf traits; LMA; Phylogenetics; Rain forest; Remote sensing; SLA; Specific leaf area; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF AREA; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; STAND STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AUSTRALASIA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79955531406     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1999.1     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Asner, G. P. 1998. Biophysical and biochemical sources of variability in canopy reflectance. Remote Sensing of Environment 64:134-153.
2. Asner, G. P. 2000. A hyperspectral photon transport system for simulating imaging spectraometer observations of terrestrial ecosystems. Pages 126-138 in R. O. Green, editor. Ninth Annual Airborne Earth Science Workshop. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA.
3. Asner, G. P., D. E. Knapp, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin, M. O. Jones, R. E. Martin, J. Boardman, and C. B. Field. 2007. Carnegie Airborne Observatory: In-flight fusion of hyperspectral imaging and waveform light detection and ranging (LiDAR) for three-dimensional studies of ecosystems. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 1:013536. [doi: 10.1117/1.2794018]
4. Asner, G. P., and M. E. Martin. 2008. Spectral and chemical analysis of tropical forests: scaling from leaf to canopy levels. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:3958-3970.
5. Asner, G. P., and R. E. Martin. 2009. Airborne spectranomics: mapping canopy chemical and taxonomic diversity in tropical forests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7:269-276.
6. Asner, G. P., R. E. Martin, A. J. Ford, D. J. Metcalfe, and M. J. Liddell. 2009. Leaf chemical and spectral diversity of Australian tropical forests. Ecological Applications 19:236-253.
7. Asner, G. P., J. M. O. Scurlock, and J. A. Hicke. 2003. Global synthesis of leaf area index observations: implications for ecological and remote sensing studies. Global Ecology and Biogeography 12:191-205.
8. Asner, G. P., and P. M. Vitousek. 2005. Remote analysis of biological invasion and biogeochemical change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102:4383-4386. (Pubitemid 40397120)
9. Baret, F., V. C. Vanderbilt, M. D. Steven, and S. Jacquemoud. 1994. Use of spectral analogy to evaluate canopy reflectance sensitivity to leaf optical properties. Remote Sensing of Environment 48:253-260. (Pubitemid 2099709)
10. Bates, D., and M. Maechler. 2009. LME4: Linear mixed-effects models using S4 classes. (http://cran.r-project.org/web/ packages/lme4/index.html)
11. Chen, S., X. Hong, C. J. Harris, and P. M. Sharkey. 2004. Spare modeling using orthogonal forest regression with PRESS statistic and regularization. IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 34:898-911.
12. Coley, P. D., and J. A. Barone. 1996. Herbivory and plant defenses in tropical forests. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 27:305-335.
13. Cunningham, S. A., B. Summerhayes, and M. Westoby. 1999. Evolutionary divergences in leaf structure and chemistry, comparing rainfall and soil nutrient gradients. Ecological Monographs 69:569-588.
14. Epps, K. Y., N. B. Comerford, J. B. Reeves, W. P. Cropper, and Q. R. Araujo. 2007. Chemical diversity: highlighting a species Ricahness and ecosystem function disconnect. Oikos 116:1831-1840. (Pubitemid 47568751)
15. Evans, J. R. 1989. Partitioning of nitrogen between and within leaves grown under different irradiances. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 16:533-548. (Pubitemid 20427142)
16. Faraway, J. J. 2005. Extending the linear model with R: generalized linear, mixed effects, and Nonparametrica regression models. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, New York, New York, USA.
17. Feret, J.-B., C. Francois, G. P. Asner, A. A. Gitelson, R. E. Martin, L. P. R. Bidel, S. L. Ustin, G. le Maire, and S. Jacquemoud. 2008. PROSPECT-4 and 5: Advances in the leaf optical properties model separating photosynthetic pigments. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:3030-3043.
18. Givnish, T. J. 1999. On the causes of gradients in tropical tree diversity. Journal of Ecology 87:193-210. (Pubitemid 29215990)
19. Govaerts, Y. M., S. Jacquemoud, M. M. Verstraete, and S. L. Ustin. 1996. Three-dimensional radiation transfer modeling in a dicotyledon leaf. Applied Optics 35:6585-6598. (Pubitemid 126628331)
20. Green, R. O., M. L. Eastwood, C. M. Sarture, T. G. Chrien, M. Aronsson, B. J. Chippendale, J. A. Faust, B. E. Pavri, C. J. Chovit, M. S. Solis, M. R. Olah, and O. Williams. 1998. Imaging spectraoscopy and the Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectraometer (AVIRIS). Remote Sensing of Environment 65:227-248.
21. Haaland, D. M., and E. V. Thomas. 1988. Partial least-squares methods for spectral Analyses. 1. Relation to other quantitative calibration methods and the extraction of qualitative information. Analytical Chemistry 60:1193-1202.
22. Hansen, M. C., S. V. Stehman, P. V. Potapov, T. R. Loveland, J. R. G. Townshend, R. S. DeFries, K. W. Pittman, B. Arunarwati, F. Stolle, M. K. Steininger, M. Carroll, and C. DiMiceli. 2008. Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:9439-9444.
23. Hikosaka, K. 2004. Interspecific difference in the photosynthesis- nitrogen relationship: patterns, physiological causes, and ecological importance. Journal of Plant Research 117:481-494.
24. Holdridge, L. R. 1967. Life zone ecology. Tropical Science Center, San José , Costa Rica.
25. Jacquemoud, S., C. Bacour, H. Poilve, and J. P. Frangi. 2000. Comparison of four radiative transfer models to simulate plant canopies reflectance: direct and inverse mode. Remote Sensing of Environment 74:471-481. (Pubitemid 32139650)
26. Jacquemoud, S., and F. Baret. 1990. PROSPECT: a model of leaf optical properties spectra. Remote Sensing of Environment 34:75-91.
27. Jacquemoud, S., S. L. Ustin, J. Verdebout, G. Schmuck, G. Andreoli, and B. Hosgood. 1996. Estimating leaf biochemistry using the PROSPECT leaf optical properties model. Remote Sensing of Environment 56:194-202.
28. Kokaly, R. F., G. P. Asner, S. V. Ollinger, M. E. Martin, and C. A. Wessman. 2009. Characterizing canopy biochemistry from imaging spectraoscopy and its application to ecosystem studies. Remote Sensing of Environment 113:S78-S91.
29. Kraft, N. J. B., R. Valencia, and D. D. Ackerly. 2009. Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science 322:580-582.
30. Niinemets, U., and O. Kull. 1998. Stoichiometry of foliar carbon constituents varies along light gradients in temperate woody canopies: implications for foliage morphological plasticity. Tree Physiology 18:467-479. (Pubitemid 28338789)
31. Niinemets, U., O. Kull, and J. D. Tenhunen. 1999. Variability in leaf morphology and chemical composition as a function of canopy light environment in coexisting deciduous trees. International Journal of Plant Sciences 160:837-848.
32. Paoli, G. D. 2006. Divergent leaf traits among congeneRica tropical trees with contrasting habitat associations in Borneo. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22:397-408. (Pubitemid 44048060)
33. Poorter, H., U. Niinemets, L. Poorter, I. J. Wright, and R. Villar. 2009. Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis. New Phytologist 182:565-588.
34. Poorter, L., and F. Bongers. 2006. Leaf traits are a good predictor of plant performance across 53 rain forest species. Ecology 87:1733-1743. (Pubitemid 44141551)
35. Poorter, L., S. F. Oberbauer, and D. B. Clark. 1995. Leaf optical propeties along a vertical gradient in a tropical rain forest canopy in Costa Rica. American Journal of Botany 82: 1257-1263. (Pubitemid 26452320)
36. R Development Core Team. 2009. R, version 2.9.2. R Foundataion for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. (http://www.R-project.org)
37. Reich, P. B., M. B. Walters, and D. S. Ellsworth. 1997. From tropics to tundra: global convergence in plant functioning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94: 13730-13734. (Pubitemid 28009651)
38. Sanchez-Azofeifa, G. A., K. Castro, S. J. Wright, J. Gamon, M. Kalacska, B. Rivard, S. A. Schnitzer, and J. L. Feng. 2009. Differences in leaf traits, leaf internal structure, and spectral reflectance between two communities of lianas and trees: implications for remote sensing in tropical environments. Remote Sensing of Environment 113(Supplement 1):2076-2088.
39. Townsend, A. R., G. P. Asner, and C. C. Cleveland. 2008. The biogeochemical heterogeneity of tropical forests. Trends in Ecology and the Environment 23:424-431.
40. Townsend, A. R., C. C. Cleveland, G. P. Asner, and M. M. C. Bustamante. 2007. Controls over foliar N:P ratios in tropical rain forests. Ecology 88:107-118. (Pubitemid 46596827)
41. Ungar, S. G., J. S. Pearlman, J. A. Mendenhall, and D. Reuter. 2003. Overview of the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) mission. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41: 1149-1160.
42. Ustin, S. L., A. A. Gitelson, S. Jacquemoud, M. Schaepman, G. P. Asner, J. A. Gamon, and P. Zarco-Tejada. 2009. Retrieval of foliar information about plant pigment systems from high resolution spectraoscopy. Remote Sensing of Environment 113(Supplement 1):567-577.
43. Ustin, S. L., D. A. Roberts, J. A. Gamon, G. P. Asner, and R. O. Green. 2004. Using imaging spectraoscopy to study ecosystem processes and properties. BioScience 54:523-534. (Pubitemid 38751838)
44. Verhoef, W., and H. Bach. 2003. Simulation of hyperspectral and directional radiance images using coupled biophysical and Atmospherica radiative transfer models. Remote Sensing of Environment 87:23-41. (Pubitemid 37261467)
45. Vogelmann, T. C., J. N. Nishio, and W. K. Smith. 1996. Leaves and light capture: light propagation and gradients of carbon fixation within leaves. Trends in Plant Science 1:65-70. (Pubitemid 126663385)
46. Westoby, M., D. S. Falster, A. T. Moles, P. A. Vesk, and I. J. Wright. 2002. Plant ecological strategies: some leading dimensions of variation between species. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33:125-159. (Pubitemid 36035138)
47. Wright, I. J., et al. 2004. The worldwide leaf economics spectraum. Nature 428:821-827.
48. Wright, S. J. 2002. Plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence. Oecologia 130:1-14. (Pubitemid 36072643)
49. Zarco-Tejada, P. J., J. R. Miller, T. L. Noland, G. H. Mohammed, and P. H. Sampson. 2001. Scaling-up and model inversion methods with narrowband optical indices for chlorophyll content estimation in closed forest canopies with hyperspectral data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 39:1491-1507. (Pubitemid 32732662)