Internnual variabilty of NDVI and bird species diversity in Kenya

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 2000, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 172-180

  Oindo, Boniface O ^a   De By, Rolf A ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AVHRR NDVI; Birds; Kenya; Mapping; Species richness; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; AVHRR; BIRD; CLIMATE EFFECT; NDVI; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

KENYA;

AVES;

EID: 0005749465     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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