ReviewEcology2025
Spectral biology across scales in changing environments.
Review in Ecology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Remote Spectral Detection of Canopy Functional Dimensions Varying Within and Across Forest Types.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Seeing herbaria in a new light: leaf reflectance spectroscopy unlocks trait and classification modeling in plant biodiversity collections.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Greater climate change adaptation potential in populations of Quercus macrocarpa at edges of latitudinal gradient.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- A Method for Predicting Alfalfa Biomass Based on Multimodal Data and Ensemble Learning Model.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Genetic constraints on in-situ reflectance spectral variation in bermudagrass populations across Hainan Island.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Canopy reflectance as a predictor of soil microbial community composition and diversity at a continental scale.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Spectral biology across scales in changing environments.Ecology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Understanding ecosystem processes on our rapidly changing planet requires integration across spatial, temporal, and biological scales. We propose that spectral biology, using tools that enable near- to far-range sensing by capturing the interaction of energy with matter across domains of the electromagnetic spectrum, will increasingly enable ecological insights across scales from cells to continents. Here, we focus on advances using spectroscopy in the visible to short-wave infrared, chlorophyll fluorescence-detecting systems, and optical laser scanning (light detection and ranging, LiDAR) to introduce the topic and special feature. Remote sensing using these tools, in conjunction with in situ measurements, can powerfully capture ecological and evolutionary processes in changing environments. These tools are amenable to capturing variation in life processes across biological scales that span physiological, evolutionary, and macroecological hierarchies. We point out key areas of spectral biology with high potential to advance understanding and monitoring of ecological processes across scales-particularly at large spatial extents-in the face of rapid global change. These include: the detection of plant and ecosystem composition, diversity, structure, and function as well as their relationships; detection of the causes and consequences of environmental stress, including disease and drought, for ecosystems; and detection of change through time in ecosystems over large spatial extents to discern variation in and mechanisms underlying their resistance, recovery, and resilience in the face of disturbance. We discuss opportunities for spectral biology to discover previously unseen variation and novel processes and to prepare the field of ecology for novel computational tools on the horizon with vast new capabilities for monitoring the ecology of our changing planet.
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