Estimating Individual Tree Mortality in the Sierra Nevada Using Lidar and Multispectral Reflectance Data

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作者
Hemming-Schroeder, N. M. [1 ]
Gutierrez, A. A. [1 ]
Allison, S. D. [1 ,2 ]
Randerson, J. T. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[2] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Irvine, CA USA
关键词
tree mortality; drought; California; wildfire; National Ecological Observatory Network; Sierra Nevada; DROUGHT; CALIFORNIA;
D O I
10.1029/2022JG007234
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
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08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Widespread tree mortality events occur during periods of severe drought in temperate conifer forests and are expected to become more frequent in many areas due to climate change. Improved mapping of individual tree mortality is needed to identify risk factors and design effective conservation strategies. In this study, we used National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) lidar and multispectral reflectance airborne observations to map individual tree mortality over a 160 km(2) area during and after the 2012-2016 drought for two sites in California's Sierra National Forest. We used NEON lidar to derive tree locations and crown perimeters and multispectral data to map tree mortality for more than 1 million trees. We found that 25.4% of the trees in our study area died between 2013 and 2017, with considerably higher mortality at the lower-elevation Soaproot Saddle site. Between 2017 and 2019, an additional 2.0%-2.8% of the trees died each year. Two wildfires in 2020 and 2021 increased tree mortality within burned area perimeters by 49%-89% between 2019 and 2021. Consistent with previous work, we found that tree mortality risk increased as a function of tree height. Tree mortality was positively associated with distance from rivers, trees per hectare, and decreasing slope at the lower elevation site. In contrast, increasing slope was positively associated with tree mortality at the higher elevation site. Our approach and dataset provide a means to study the combined effects of drought and wildfire on tree mortality and may improve projections of forest resilience under a changing climate.
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