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Arthur Bayle
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Alpine ecologist and remote sensing scientist working on vegetation response to #climate and #land-use change, from #treeline to #snowline. Working between LECA (France), UQTR (Canada), and UNIGE (Switzerland)
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Some more good news for the Sentinel-2 mission!

Sentinel-2A, which recently retired, has been given a temporary extension, where it will support S2B and S2C to provide additional data.

Lots of hard work behind the scenes to make this happen. Glad to see it!

sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...
Sentinel-2A: Exceptional temporary extension campaign starting in March 2025 - Sentinel Online
sentinels.copernicus.eu
January 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Arthur Bayle
It's warming so quickly that high alpine forests which emerged during the Holocene Thermal Maximum thousands of years ago are being uncovered by glaciers that developed in the years thereafter when temperatures plummeted (and the Deniers are very confused about this)🧵
January 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
📢New paper alert 📢
Larch forests are expanding in the southern French Alps🌲. Expansion began over 100 years ago, but accelerated in the 1990s ↗️. This paper shows that climate change🌡️, rather than a change in land use 🐑, has caused this acceleration.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Climate, not land-use, drives a recent acceleration of larch expansion at the forest-grassland ecotone in the southern French alps
In recent decades significant forest expansion into treeless alpine zones has been observed across global mountain ranges, including the Alps, driven …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Arthur Bayle
When I started my PhD, I thought we were the only crazy ecologists out there. Why? Because we transplanted 1m² alpine communities downslope to study climate change effects. Imagine thousands of plants and tons of soil flying over the French Alps 😅
November 22, 2024 at 9:58 AM
🎉New paper alert 🎉
Have you ever wondered how the advance of the forest translates into radiometric signals and greening? 🤔 Probably not, but if you're wondering now, read our new paper in RSEC! ✅
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Alpine greening deciphered by forest stand and structure dynamics in advancing treelines of the southwestern European Alps
Multidecadal satellite observations, like those from Landsat, enable the study of vegetation greenness trends at extensive spatial and temporal scales. Alpine ecosystems show significant increases in....
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Satellite remote sensing has enabled ecologists to get out of their gardens, so perhaps it's time to get back in? 🤔
A nice article to read while walking along the pixels!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Pixel walking along the boreal forest–Arctic tundra ecotone: Large scale ground‐truthing of satellite‐derived greenness (NDVI)
Using ~640 km of vegetation transects and ~24,000 Landsat pixels across Alaska's central Brooks Range, we demonstrate novel methods and analyses for improving ecological interpretation of satellite-o...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM