A regional assessment of functional diversity in different grassland systems
Christian Rossi, Swiss National Park, Zernez (CH)
The characteristics, range, and relative abundance of plant traits present in a given community are key parameters in quantifying ecosystem properties and derived ecosystem services. Capturing this diversity in differently managed grasslands at landscape scale remains challenging because of limited data availability. To overcome this issue we inverted a physical-based radiative transfer model with remotely sensed imaging spectrometer datasets of an area that has been free from anthropogenic influence for the last 100 years, and a cultural landscape in its surroundings.