Occurrence uses the 30 sampled plots in each community. Community boundaries are not rigid; these are study observations, not a complete Estonian distribution. Study data and methods →
INDEPENDENT BOTANICAL EVIDENCE
General ecology
Festuca rubra is a loosely tufted perennial grass of meadows, sown grasslands, shores, verges and waste ground. FinBIF describes a native range across the temperate Northern Hemisphere and established introductions in the Southern Hemisphere.
LS · Lower Shore9 / 30 · 30%Cover among 8 plots: median 5% · IQR 5–5%
US · Upper Shore30 / 30 · 100%Cover among 30 plots: median 18% · IQR 15–27.5%
TG · Tall Grass24 / 30 · 80%Cover among 18 plots: median 5% · IQR 5–7.5%
Saardu7 / 20 plots
Keemu20 / 30 plots
Koera21 / 30 plots
Kudani15 / 40 plots
FINBIF TAXONOMY
Current verified classification
kingdomPlantae Haeckel
phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
orderPoales Small
familyPoaceae Barnhart
genusFestuca L.
speciesFestuca rubra L.
OUR MEASURED TRAITS
Pool-wise CCI and leaf area
Trait values are pooled measurements collected during the 2024 coastal-meadow field campaign and are study observations, not fixed species constants. Only summaries with at least five measurements are shown.
OUR 2024 MEASUREMENTS
Chlorophyll Content Index
1
Range 0.8–1.7 · average 1.01 · n = 69
OUR 2024 MEASUREMENTS
Leaf area
0.358 cm²
Range 0.087–1.403 · average 0.4 · n = 39
Licensed FinBIF photographs
Additional photographs
These views complement the primary photograph above without repeating it. Use them alongside a regional identification key; photographs alone are not sufficient for a field identification.
These steps show what this record contributes to the 2024 study. They do not turn the taxon name into a remotely sensed measurement.
1 · FIELD EVIDENCE63 of 120 plots
56 occupied plots have a positive numeric cover value available for occupied-plot cover summaries.
2 · TRAIT ELIGIBILITYCCI n = 69 · leaf area n = 39
Both traits passed the documented minimum of five measurements. Their species medians can be weighted by relative cover when constructing plot-level community-weighted means.
3 · MODEL LINKPlot response, not species detection
Plot-level ecological responses are paired with UAV predictors. A fitted model can estimate variation in those responses across the landscape; this record does not train a classifier for Festuca rubra.