FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.39677
Coastal-meadow position
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 →
Plantago maritima is a perennial herb of wet saline coastal banks and salt-influenced ground. FinBIF reports a wide distribution across Eurasia and parts of the Americas and North Africa; its coastal affinity is independently sourced rather than inferred from the study communities.
Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi ↗
Recorded in 29 of 120 sampled plots.
FINBIF TAXONOMY
OUR MEASURED TRAITS
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.
Range 0.8–2.4 · average 1.12 · n = 18
Range 0.203–0.861 · average 0.5 · n = 6
Licensed FinBIF 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.
FIELD DATA → EARTH OBSERVATION
These steps show what this record contributes to the 2024 study. They do not turn the taxon name into a remotely sensed measurement.
28 occupied plots have a positive numeric cover value available for occupied-plot cover summaries.
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.
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 Plantago maritima.
Interpretation boundary: UAV or satellite imagery does not uniquely identify Plantago maritima in this study. Follow the complete field-to-EO workflow →