Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppes

Arthropod biomass is a key element in ecosystem functionality and a basic food item for many species. It must be estimated through traditional costly field sampling, normally at just a few sampling points. Arthropod biomass and plant productivity should be narrowly related because a large majority o...

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Autores: Traba Díaz, Juan, Gómez Catasus, Julia, Barrero, A., Bustillo de La Rosa, C., Zurdo, J., Hervás, I., Pérez Granados, C., García De la Morena, Eladio Luis, Santamaría, A., Reverter Cid, Margarita
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Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
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Palabra clave:Arthropod biomass
Coprophagous arthropods
Epigeous arthropods
Shrub steppe
Vegetation index
Medio Ambiente
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spelling Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppesTraba Díaz, JuanGómez Catasus, JuliaBarrero, A.Bustillo de La Rosa, C.Zurdo, J.Hervás, I.Pérez Granados, C.García De la Morena, Eladio LuisSantamaría, A.Reverter Cid, MargaritaArthropod biomassCoprophagous arthropodsEpigeous arthropodsShrub steppeVegetation indexMedio AmbienteArthropod biomass is a key element in ecosystem functionality and a basic food item for many species. It must be estimated through traditional costly field sampling, normally at just a few sampling points. Arthropod biomass and plant productivity should be narrowly related because a large majority of arthropods are herbivorous, and others depend on these. Quantifying plant productivity with satellite or aerial vehicle imagery is an easy and fast procedure already tested and implemented in agriculture and field ecology. However, the capability of satellite or aerial vehicle imagery for quantifying arthropod biomass and its relationship with plant productivity has been scarcely addressed. Here, we used unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and satellite Sentinel-2 (S2) imagery to establish a relationship between plant productivity and arthropod biomass estimated through ground-truth field sampling in shrub steppes. We UAV-sampled seven plots of 47.6–72.3 ha at a 4-cm pixel resolution, subsequently downscaling spatial resolution to 50 cm resolution. In parallel, we used S2 imagery from the same and other dates and locations at 10-m spatial resolution. We related several vegetation indices (VIs) with arthropod biomass (epigeous, coprophagous, and four functional consumer groups: predatory, detritivore, phytophagous, and diverse) estimated at 41–48 sampling stations for UAV flying plots and in 67–79 sampling stations for S2. VIs derived from UAV were consistently and positively related to all arthropod biomass groups. Three out of seven and six out of seven S2-derived VIs were positively related to epigeous and coprophagous arthropod biomass, respectively. The blue normalized difference VI (BNDVI) and enhanced normalized difference VI (ENDVI) showed consistent and positive relationships with arthropod biomass, regardless of the arthropod group or spatial resolution. Our results showed that UAV and S2-VI imagery data may be viable and cost-efficient alternatives for quantifying arthropod biomass at large scales in shrub steppes. The relationship between VI and arthropod biomass is probably habitat-dependent, so future research should address this relationship and include several habitats to validate VIs as proxies of arthropod biomassBBVA Foundation, BBVA Dron Ricoti project; European Commission, Grant/ Award Number: LIFE15-NAT-ES-000802; REMEDINAL-3 from CAM; European Comission, Grant/Award Number: LIFE20-NAT-ES-000133WileyDepartamento de EcologíaFacultad de Ciencias20222022-07-09research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/704360https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2707reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7043602026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppes
title Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppes
spellingShingle Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppes
Traba Díaz, Juan
Arthropod biomass
Coprophagous arthropods
Epigeous arthropods
Shrub steppe
Vegetation index
Medio Ambiente
title_short Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppes
title_full Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppes
title_fullStr Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppes
title_full_unstemmed Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppes
title_sort Comparative assessment of satellite- and drone-based vegetation indices to predict arthropod biomass in shrub-steppes
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Traba Díaz, Juan
Gómez Catasus, Julia
Barrero, A.
Bustillo de La Rosa, C.
Zurdo, J.
Hervás, I.
Pérez Granados, C.
García De la Morena, Eladio Luis
Santamaría, A.
Reverter Cid, Margarita
author Traba Díaz, Juan
author_facet Traba Díaz, Juan
Gómez Catasus, Julia
Barrero, A.
Bustillo de La Rosa, C.
Zurdo, J.
Hervás, I.
Pérez Granados, C.
García De la Morena, Eladio Luis
Santamaría, A.
Reverter Cid, Margarita
author_role author
author2 Gómez Catasus, Julia
Barrero, A.
Bustillo de La Rosa, C.
Zurdo, J.
Hervás, I.
Pérez Granados, C.
García De la Morena, Eladio Luis
Santamaría, A.
Reverter Cid, Margarita
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Ecología
Facultad de Ciencias
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Arthropod biomass
Coprophagous arthropods
Epigeous arthropods
Shrub steppe
Vegetation index
Medio Ambiente
topic Arthropod biomass
Coprophagous arthropods
Epigeous arthropods
Shrub steppe
Vegetation index
Medio Ambiente
description Arthropod biomass is a key element in ecosystem functionality and a basic food item for many species. It must be estimated through traditional costly field sampling, normally at just a few sampling points. Arthropod biomass and plant productivity should be narrowly related because a large majority of arthropods are herbivorous, and others depend on these. Quantifying plant productivity with satellite or aerial vehicle imagery is an easy and fast procedure already tested and implemented in agriculture and field ecology. However, the capability of satellite or aerial vehicle imagery for quantifying arthropod biomass and its relationship with plant productivity has been scarcely addressed. Here, we used unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and satellite Sentinel-2 (S2) imagery to establish a relationship between plant productivity and arthropod biomass estimated through ground-truth field sampling in shrub steppes. We UAV-sampled seven plots of 47.6–72.3 ha at a 4-cm pixel resolution, subsequently downscaling spatial resolution to 50 cm resolution. In parallel, we used S2 imagery from the same and other dates and locations at 10-m spatial resolution. We related several vegetation indices (VIs) with arthropod biomass (epigeous, coprophagous, and four functional consumer groups: predatory, detritivore, phytophagous, and diverse) estimated at 41–48 sampling stations for UAV flying plots and in 67–79 sampling stations for S2. VIs derived from UAV were consistently and positively related to all arthropod biomass groups. Three out of seven and six out of seven S2-derived VIs were positively related to epigeous and coprophagous arthropod biomass, respectively. The blue normalized difference VI (BNDVI) and enhanced normalized difference VI (ENDVI) showed consistent and positive relationships with arthropod biomass, regardless of the arthropod group or spatial resolution. Our results showed that UAV and S2-VI imagery data may be viable and cost-efficient alternatives for quantifying arthropod biomass at large scales in shrub steppes. The relationship between VI and arthropod biomass is probably habitat-dependent, so future research should address this relationship and include several habitats to validate VIs as proxies of arthropod biomass
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