Examining the influence of seasonality, condition, and species composition on mangrove leaf pigment contents and laboratory based spectroscopy data
Flores-de-Santiago, Francisco, Kovacs, John M., Wang, Jinfei, Flores-Verdugo, Francisco, Zhang, Chunhua, and González-Farías, Fernando (2016) Examining the influence of seasonality, condition, and species composition on mangrove leaf pigment contents and laboratory based spectroscopy data. Remote Sensing, 8 (3). 226. pp. 1-20.
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Abstract
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the seasonal relationships (dry vs. rainy) between reflectance (400-1000 nm) and leaf pigment contents (chlorophyll-a (chl-a), chlorophyll-b (chl-b), total carotenoids (tcar), chlorophyll a/b ratio) in three mangrove species (Avicennia germinans (A. germinans), Laguncularia racemosa (L. racemosa), and Rhizophora mangle (R. mangle)) according to their condition (stressed vs. healthy). Based on a sample of 360 leaves taken from a semi-arid forest of the Mexican Pacific, it was determined that during the dry season, the stressed A. germinans and R. mangle show the highest maximum correlations at the green (550 nm) and red-edge (710 nm) wavelengths (r = 0.8 and 0.9, respectively) for both chl-a and chl-b and that much lower values (r = 0.7 and 0.8, respectively) were recorded during the rainy season. Moreover, it was found that the tcar correlation pattern across the electromagnetic spectrum was quite different from that of the chl-a, the chl-b, and chl a/b ratio but that their maximum correlations were also located at the same two wavelength ranges for both seasons. The stressed L. racemosa was the only sample to exhibit minimal correlation with chl-a and chl-b for either season. In addition, the healthy A. germinans and R. mangle depicted similar patterns of chl-a and chl-b, but the tcar varied depending on the species. The healthy L. racemosa recorded higher correlations with chl-b and tcar at the green and red-edge wavelengths during the dry season, and higher correlation with chl-a during the rainy season. Finally, the vegetation index Red Edge Inflection Point Index (REIP) was found to be the optimal index for chl-a estimation for both stressed and healthy classes. For chl-b, both the REIP and the Vogelmann Red Edge Index (Vog1) index were found to be best at prediction. Based on the results of this investigation, it is suggested that caution be taken as mangrove leaf pigment contents from spectroscopy data have been shown to be sensitive to seasonality, species, and condition. The authors suggest potential reasons for the observed variability in the reflectance and pigment contents relationships.
Item ID: | 44190 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 2072-4292 |
Keywords: | Mexico, forest health, spectroscopy, pigment content |
Additional Information: | This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0). |
Funders: | Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Technología, Mexico (CONACYT), Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico (DGAPA-UNAM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigación e Innovación Tecnólogica (PAPIIT), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (UNAM) |
Projects and Grants: | CONACYT grant #198885, UNAM-PAPIIT grant #IN211213, NSERC Discovery Grant #RGPIN-2014-06188 |
Date Deposited: | 11 May 2016 07:37 |
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