Integrated imaging of above and below ground properties and their interactions: A case study in East River watershed, Colorado

Nicola Falco, Baptiste Dafflon, Haruko Wainwright, Emmanuel Leger, Caitlin Haedrich, John Peterson, Kenneth Williams, Susan Hubbard

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Abstract

Mountainous ecosystems in headwater catchments play an important role in water resources, particularly in western United States, influencing snow accumulation/melting and water partitioning. Characterizing ecosystem functioning is, however, difficult due to extreme heterogeneity in topography as well as hydrological and pedological properties that influence plant communities and their dynamics. To gain a predictive understanding of how ecosystems evolve under climate change, it is critical to characterize the heterogeneity of plant communities and to quantify the influence of key environmental variables such as topography and soil moisture. In this study, we take advantages of spatial extensive datasets such as geophysical and remote sensing (RS) techniques to improve our understanding of critical interactions between above-ground plant community distribution and dynamic, and subsurface properties.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2647-2651
Number of pages5
JournalSEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 27 2018
Externally publishedYes
EventSociety of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 88th Annual Meeting, SEG 2018 - Anaheim, United States
Duration: Oct 14 2018Oct 19 2018

Funding

This material is based upon work supported as part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research under Award Number DE-AC02-05CH11231.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science
Biological and Environmental ResearchDE-AC02-05CH11231

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