{"id":645,"date":"2025-06-27T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.umaine.edu\/wheatland-lab\/?page_id=645"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:02:24","slug":"arctic-coastal-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/wheatland-lab\/arctic-coastal-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic &amp; Coastal Landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-row-layout-wrap.wp-block-kadence-rowlayout.kb-row-layout-id645_6326f9-09{margin-bottom:0px;}.kb-row-layout-id645_6326f9-09 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id645_6326f9-09 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id645_6326f9-09 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:80px;row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:1268px;padding-top:75px;padding-bottom:75px;grid-template-columns:repeat(2, minmax(0, 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data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading645_e4dc84-03\">This collaborative, USDA-funded project combines remotely sensed data like hyperspectral UAV imagery, ECOSTRESS thermal data, and LiDAR, with field-based physiological and dendrochronological measurements to assess vegetation stress in coastal red spruce forests in Maine. We examine how indicators such as land surface temperature, spectral vegetation indices, and forest structure relate to tree-level measures of water deficit and growth. Exploring relationships with environmental variables like drought, vapor pressure deficit, soil moisture, and temperature also inform our analysis of spruce forest responses to changing climate regimes. These relationships enable scaling across spatial scales, from individual stands to broader forested landscapes. Our goal is to develop a potential framework for detecting signs of forest stress, understand coastal forest resiliency in the context of a rapidly warming climate, and inform adaptive management strategies in these vulnerable ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column645_2c731c-57 > .kt-inside-inner-col{display:flex;}.kadence-column645_2c731c-57 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column645_2c731c-57 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column645_2c731c-57 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column645_2c731c-57 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}.kadence-column645_2c731c-57 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kt-row-column-wrap > .kadence-column645_2c731c-57{align-self:center;}.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > 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