Evaluating potential of leaf reflectance spectra to monitor plant genetic variation.

Remote sensing of vegetation by spectroscopy is increasingly used to characterize trait distributions in plant communities. How leaves interact with electromagnetic radiation is determined by their structure and contents of pigments, water, and abundant dry matter constituents like lignins, phenolics, and proteins. High-resolution ("hyperspectral") spectroscopy can characterize trait variation at finer scales, and may help to reveal underlying genetic variation-information important for assessing the potential of populations to adapt to global change.

A spatial fingerprint of land-water linkage of biodiversity uncovered by remote sensing and environmental DNA.

Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are tightly connected via spatial flows of organisms and resources. Such land-water linkages integrate biodiversity across ecosystems and suggest a spatial association of aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity. However, knowledge about the extent of this spatial association is limited.

A novel synthesis of two decades of microsatellite studies on European beech reveals decreasing genetic diversity from glacial refugia.

Unlabelled: Genetic diversity influences the evolutionary potential of forest trees under changing environmental conditions, thus indirectly the ecosystem services that forests provide. European beech ( L.) is a dominant European forest tree species that increasingly suffers from climate change-related die-back.