Extracting Vegetation Phenology in Heterogeneous Drylands Using LiDAR and Landsat Temporal Decomposition: A Latitudinal Assessment of Waterholes Within the Cooper Creek, Australia
Marcelo Henriques, Tim R. McVicar, Kate L. Holland, Edoardo Daly
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Abstract
Land surface phenology (LSP) is useful to understand patterns of terrestrial ecosystems. Detecting LSP in drylands is more challenging when compared to agricultural and mesic environments due to vegetation heterogeneity, the presence of evergreen and seasonal species, and the dominant role of water (which is often received episodically with variable timing) in determining vegetation growth. In this study, LiDAR-derived vegetation classes are defined to guide and improve the interpretation of LSP metrics extracted using temporally decomposed Landsat fPAR time series. This method was applied to waterholes within the Cooper Creek floodplain, in dryland Australia, which are important for ecological conservation. Results showed that phenology is mostly associated with the recurrent vegetation (approximately 80% of all identified phenological events) in all waterholes. However, during high streamflow periods, the number of phenological events associated with the persistent vegetation greatly increased (up to 40% of the identified events). Non-annual phenology was also identified, with more than one phenological event occurring across a water year during high streamflow periods. The duration of the phenological events of the persistent vegetation exceeded one water year during periods of high streamflow. Phenological differences of the LiDAR-derived vegetation classes occupying the riparian zone of the waterholes were also identified. Streamflow movement across the floodplain exerts an important influence on the vegetation phenology, as suggested by a lag in the phenology when comparing southern and northern waterholes. The method developed herein can be applied to other highly spatially heterogeneous ecosystems where vegetation species simultaneously present permanent and seasonal patterns.
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JGR-Biogeosciences focuses on biogeosciences of the Earth system in the past, present, and future and the extension of this research to planetary studies. The emerging field of biogeosciences spans the intellectual interface between biology and the geosciences and attempts to understand the functions of the Earth system across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Studies in biogeosciences may use multiple lines of evidence drawn from diverse fields to gain a holistic understanding of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems and extreme environments. Specific topics within the scope of the section include process-based theoretical, experimental, and field studies of biogeochemistry, biogeophysics, atmosphere-, land-, and ocean-ecosystem interactions, biomineralization, life in extreme environments, astrobiology, microbial processes, geomicrobiology, and evolutionary geobiology