Contemporary variations of terrestrial net primary production: The use of satellite data in the light of an extremal principle

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 113-118

  Alexandrov, Georgii A ^a,b   Oikawa, Takehisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Leaf area index; Light attenuation coefficient; Net primary production

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIGHT ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030618301     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(96)00031-2     Document Type: Article

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