Monitoring montane-subalpine forest ecotone in the Pyrenees through sequential forest inventories and Landsat imagery

Key message

Abies alba Mill.–Pinus uncinata Ramond. ecotone dynamics are examined along both altitudinal and protection level gradients by combining field inventories and Landsat data. An upward expansion of A. alba to the subalpine belt is observed in the last decades as a result of stand maturation after logging cessation.

Keywords
Field inventory data; Abies alba; Pinus uncinata; Landsat images; Species classification; Species replacement index

Publication
Aulló-Maestro, I., Gómez, C., Hernández, L. et al. Monitoring montane-subalpine forest ecotone in the Pyrenees through sequential forest inventories and Landsat imagery. Annals of Forest Science 80, 32 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-023-01198-4

Data and/or code availability
The datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are available in the CSIC repository, https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/15332.

Handling Editor
Matteo Vizzarri

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