In Pacific Coast salt marshes, only color and color IR aerial photography provide the spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution required to conduct long-term historic time series analysis of wetland change at the plant community level. We used historic aerial photographs with manual and automated image classification techniques to discern decadal-scale changes to salt marshes in Elkhorn Slough...

Old fields are diverse forb-dominated ecosystems transitioning into woody-dominated forested ecosystems. However, the susceptibility of old fields to high levels of plant invasion can lead to the co-occurrence of multiple non-native invasive plant species at the fine-scale of plant neighborhoods, which can alter native species co-occurrence patterns and successional trajectories into forest com...