Forest Structural Diversity: Metrics, Methods, and Links to Ecosystem Functions

Xiao, Jingfeng

B044
Forest Structural Diversity: Metrics, Methods, and Links to Ecosystem Functions

Session ID#: 247123

Session Description:

Changes in forest structural diversity may affect many ecological functions and services. It encompasses attributes such as stand structure, composition, and canopy complexity, and its metrics include variation in tree heights and sizes, leaf density and clumping, canopy cover and arrangement, and heterogeneity and complexity. These metrics can be derived from forest inventories, modeling, and proximal (UAVs, terrestrial laser scanning), airborne (aerial lidar), and satellite (e.g., GEDI, ICESat-2) remote sensing. We encourage contributions that (1) discuss insights, views, and measures of structural diversity; (2) connect structural diversity to ecological processes (e.g., productivity, land/atmosphere exchange, biogeochemical cycling, disturbance); (3) explore relative importance of structural diversity and other measures of biodiversity in determining ecosystem functions or services; (4) examine how global change and management shape structural diversity; (5) scale up structural diversity from plot and local scales to regional/continental/global scales; (6) link changes in structure over time to changes in ecological attributes.

Co-Sponsor(s):

GC - Global Environmental Change

Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Primary Convener: Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States

Conveners: Erin Crockett, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada, Qinfeng Guo, USDA Forest Service - Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States and Jeff Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, United States

Quantification of Wood Decay in Sal (Shorea robusta) Using Sonic Tomography in Nepal’s Central Inner Terai (1963247)

Keshav Ghimire, Alabama A & M University, Normal, AL, United States, Sunita Ulak, Forest Research and Training Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal, Pratik Pandeya, Forest Research and Training Centre, Kapilvastu, Nepal and Sabita Bhandari, Institute of Forestry, Pokhara, Nepal

Humid tropical forest foliar height diversity (FHD) increases after deforestation with stand age – a comprehensive Democratic Republic of Congo multi-decadal study using the NASA GEDI FHD and European Union Tropical Moist Forest Cover Loss products (1971753)

Herve Kashongwe, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States, David Roy, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Sciences, and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States, Myung Sik Cho, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, United States and Christopher Hakkenberg, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States

Scale as a New Dimension of Forest Structural Diversity (1983164)

Christian G Andresen¹, Jacob A May¹, Bailey Murphy², Ting Zheng³ and Ankur R Desai⁴, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Corvallis, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States

If a tree is “Protected”, is it? Using satellite-borne LiDAR to understand the structural dynamics of West African Protected Areas (1984658)

Abigail Barenblitt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Temilola Fatoyinbo, NASA Goddard Space Fight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Atticus Stovall, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, United States, Laura Duncanson, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Mengyu Liang, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States and Veronika Leitold, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States

An Automatic Threshold Optimization Method of Spaceborne Large-footprint Full-waveform LiDAR for Forest Parameter Estimation (1987593)

Cangjiao Wang, Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China and Yong Pang, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Quantification of Slope-induced Errors in GEDI- and ULS-based Canopy Height Models (1988806)

Gahyeon Lim, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Youngryel Ryu, Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, Tackang Yang, Seoul National University, Interdisciplinary Program in Lanscape Architecture, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Dr. Changhyun Choi, Inha University, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Seoul, South Korea and Yunsoo Nam, Seoul National University, Department of Lanscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)

Correlating Airborne LiDAR Forest Structure with Explicit Tree Architecture (1994715)

Luke Gulas, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Joshua Carpenter, Lafayette, Indiana, UNITED STATES

Agentic AI Extraction of Dendrometric Parameters from a 3D Point Cloud Acquired by SLAM-based Handheld-MLS for Forest Inventories (1999585)

Mouad Jabrane, Imane Sebari and Kenza Ait El Kadi, Research Unit of Geospatial Technologies for a Smart Decision, IAV Hassan II, Rabat 10101, Morocco, Rabat, Morocco

Assessment and Enhancement of Spaceborne LiDAR-Derived Forest Canopy Height in a Temperate Forest (2000472)

Xiaoyu Xu, Anish K C and Bharat Pokharel, Tennessee State University, Nashville, United States

Parking Lots and Cornfields: Do Forest Edges Know the Difference? (1852576)

Bowen Li¹, Zack Horve², Benjamin McCallister², Brady S Hardiman^2,3, Suresh Rao^4,5 and Robert Timothy Fahey⁶, (1)Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, United States, (3)Purdue University, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, (4)Purdue University, Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, (5)Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, West Lafayette, United States, (6)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States

Harnessing Plant Trait Databases for Tracking Functional Diversity in conservation and management (1854909)

Joshua Lee, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Alexandria, NSW, AUSTRALIA, William Cornwell, University of New South Wales, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, Australia, James Brazill-Boast, NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust, Sydney, Australia and Rachael Gallagher, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Penrith, Australia

Three-Dimensional Forest Structure from Terrestrial Laser Scanning Improves Biomass Estimation in a Temperate Broadleaf Forest (1871418)

Yuxuan Zhou, Indiana University Bloomington, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, United States, Mallory Barnes, Indiana University, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, United States and Kimberly A Novick, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States

Species-Specific Structural Complexity Reveals Strategies for Light and Water Use in Deciduous Forest (1874995)

Yiting Fan, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Xi Yang, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States

Deep learning-based Wood Reconstruction and Leaf-Wood segmentation model for full tree volume estimation from 3D Tree Modeling under Presence of Occlusions and Leaves (1888375)

Heeju Mun¹, Youngryel Ryu¹, Tackang Yang², Yunsoo Nam³ and Dr. Changhyun Choi⁴, (1)Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Seoul National University, Interdisciplinary Program in Lanscape Architecture, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Seoul National University, Department of Lanscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)Inha University, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

Linking Vertical Structure and Biodiversity: Functional Diversity of Indian Forests from Space (1897821)

Trupti Satapathy and Debsunder Dutta, Indian Institute of Science, Civil Engineering, Bangalore, India

Drought, Wildfire, and Tree Mortality: A Decade of Forest Height Trends in California (1899323)

Natalie Queally¹, Christopher Anderson², Carissa DeRanek¹ and Elsa Ordway³, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, United States, (2)Planet Labs PBC, San Francisco, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States

A Forest Vegetation Survey on Janggeorido-Island, Sogeomundo-Island, Bodeunagiseom-Island, Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, Korea (1905831)

SUN Keun Lee, National Institute of Forest Science, Warm-Temperate and Subtropical Forest Research Center, Seogwipo, South Korea, Hwan Seok Je, National institute of Forest Science, Warm-Temperate and Subtropical Forest Research Center, Seogwipo-si, South Korea, Ara Seol, National Institute of Forest Science, Warm-Temperate and Subtropical Forest Research Center, Seogwipo-si, South Korea and Chanwoo Park, National Institute of Forest Science, Research Planning and Coordination Division, Seoul, South Korea

Assessing Structural Recovery of Secondary Tropical Forests Using GEDI mission (1913948)

Leo Haneda, School of Forest Resources and Conservation - University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, UNITED STATES and Denis Valle, University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States

Crown Structure and Competitive Interactions in Mixed Forests: Insights from an Individual-Based Model (1916288)

Hisashi Sato, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Akihiro Sumida, Kyoto Prefectural University, Forest Ecology, Kyoto, Japan

Crowns, Competition, and Continuity: A Machine Learning Approach for Annual Yield Prediction of Pinus taeda (L.) Using UAV-LiDAR Data (1922906)

Gunjan Barua, PhD Student¹, David Carter², Valerie A Thomas¹, Patrick Green³, Phil Radtke⁴, Thomas Pingel⁵, Rachel L Cook⁶, Timothy Albaugh⁴, Rafael Rubilar⁷, Otavio Campoe⁸ and Matthew Sumnall¹, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Forestry, East Lansing, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Forest Resource and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/, Blacksburg, United States, (5)Binghamton University, Geography, Binghamton, United States, (6)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, United States, (7)University of Concepcion, Forestry, Concepcion, Chile, (8)Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil

Forest Structural Diversity as a Biome-Wide Predictor of Taxonomic Diversity (1928318)

Brandon Alveshere, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, United States, Lesley Bulluck, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States, Tahrir Siddiqui, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, United States, Elizabeth A LaRue, University of Texas El Paso, Biological Sciences, El Paso, United States and Christopher Michael Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States

Interactive Effects of Wildfire and Log Decomposition in the Pacific Northwest: Results From Year 40 of a 200-year Log Decomposition Experiment (1928555)

Jacob Bukoski¹, Hayley Peter-Contesse², Georgia Seyfried³, Yuzhe Wang⁴, Cristina Winters Borcich³ and Mark Harmon⁵, (1)Oregon State University, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Corvallis, United States, (4)College of Juncao Science & Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China, (5)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States

The Role of Forest Structural Legacies from Prior Experimental Disturbance on Outcomes from an Ice Storm (1936058)

Iris Kennedy, University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Groton, CT, United States, Robert Timothy Fahey, University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States and Christopher Michael Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States

Forest structure assessment through in-forest drone flight with a compact LiDAR system for satellite laser (1946174)

Akira Kato¹, Seitaro Yamada¹, Tatsuro Nakaji², Narumasa Tsutsumida³, Yoshito Sawada¹, Satoshi Suzuki⁴, Toshiyuki Nakata⁴ and Ryusuke Noda⁵, (1)Chiba University, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba, Japan, (2)Hokkaido University, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Sapporo, Japan, (3)Saitama University, Graduate school of Science & Engineering, Saitama, Japan, (4)Chiba University, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba, Japan, (5)Tokyo University of Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Hachioji, Japan

Deriving Hardwood Species and Functional Traits from Incomplete LiDAR Data (1948085)

Joshua Carpenter, Purdue University, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Jinha Jung, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

Canopy Complexity as a Key Mechanism Linking Tree Diversity and Productivity Across Two Large-Scale Forest Diversity Experiments (Invited) (1958072)

Catherine Fahey¹, Dennis Heejoon Choi², Jianmin Wang³, Grant M Domke⁴, Joseph Edwards⁵, Songlin Fei³, Stephanie Kivlin⁵, Elizabeth A LaRue⁶, Melissa McCormick⁷, William J McShea⁸, Richard P Phillips⁹, Jamie Pullen¹⁰ and John Parker¹¹, (1)Kenyon College, Annapolis, MD, UNITED STATES, (2)Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (3)Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, (5)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, (6)University of Texas El Paso, Biological Sciences, El Paso, United States, (7)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, United States, (8)Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, VA, United States, (9)Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States, (10)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States, (11)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States

Simulating Mature and Old Growth Forest with Associated Lidar Waveforms for CONUS Study Sites (1959187)

Amanda Hildt Armstrong, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, GSFC, College PARK, United States, Benjamin Poulter, Spark Climate Solutions, San Francisco, United States, Jamis Bruening, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Neil Pederson, Harvard Forest, Petersham, United States, Katherine A Melocik, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, Luke Wertis, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States and Janie Sanborn, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States

Validating GEDI-Derived Habitat Structure for Use in Biodiversity Studies (1966517)

Colin Sweeney, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Kaiguang Zhao, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, Chenyang Wei, University at Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, Benjamin Zuckerberg, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States and Marta A Jarzyna, The Ohio State University, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Columbus, United States

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B044
Forest Structural Diversity: Metrics, Methods, and Links to Ecosystem Functions