Remote Sensing Letters, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(12), P. 1259 - 1269
Published: Nov. 28, 2024
The importance of mangroves in marine community stability has become increasingly clear. Understanding the factors structuring mangrove communities, how they respond to disturbance, and much biomass contain a research priority. study using approaches adapted from terrestrial systems is common yet challenging, highlighting need for novel approaches. In recent years, remote sensing techniques (lidar photogrammetry) have provided insight into composition, extent, size variability. Here, we build upon this previous work by examining structure islands convex hulls alpha shapes fit airborne lidar data obtained United States Geological Survey (USGS). We find that across 527 different occurring eight locations around coastal Florida, scaling properties these are tightly constrained. Of particular interest surface area volume, which differs null models, close 3/4 predicted prominent theoretical models. Our results suggest may be useful models capture aspects island vegetation indicate better understand plant abundance, size, contribute variability data.
Language: Английский