Surface Tradeoffs and Elevational Shifts at the Largest Italian Glacier: A Thirty-Years Time Series of Remotely-Sensed Images
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F21%3A87034" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/21:87034 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/1/134" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/1/134</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13010134" target="_blank" >10.3390/rs13010134</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Surface Tradeoffs and Elevational Shifts at the Largest Italian Glacier: A Thirty-Years Time Series of Remotely-Sensed Images
Original language description
Biodiversity loss occurring in mountain ecosystems calls for integrative approaches to improve monitoring processes in the face of human-induced changes. With a combination of vegetation and remotely-sensed time series data, we quantitatively identify the responses of land-cover types and their associated vegetation between 1987 and 2016. Fuzzy clustering of 11 Landsat images was used to identify main land-cover types. Vegetation belts corresponding to such land-cover types were identified by using species indicator analysis performed on 80 vegetation plots. A post-classification evaluation of trends, magnitude, and elevational shifts was done using fuzzy membership values as a proxy of the occupied surfaces by land-cover types. Our findings show that forests and scrublands expanded upward as much as the glacier retreated, i.e., by 24% and 23% since 1987, respectively. While lower alpine grassland shifted upward, the upper alpine grassland lost 10% of its originally occupied surface showing no elevat
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Remote Sensing
ISSN
2072-4292
e-ISSN
2072-4292
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1-14
UT code for WoS article
000606123600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85099233490