Spatial patterns of the Chaco vegetation of central Argentina: Integration of remote sensing and phytosociology

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 213-226

  Zak, Marcelo R ^a   Cabido, Marcelo ^a  

^a Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Land cover map; Landsat TM; Supervised classification; Vegetation classification

Indexed keywords

CHACO;

EID: 0036993574     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2002.tb00551.x     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Adamoli, J., Neumann, R., Ratier, A.D. & Morello, J. 1972. El Chaco aluvional salteño. Rev. Invest. Agropecu. 9: 165-237.
2. Aguiar, M.R., Paruelo, J.M., Golluscio, R.A., León, R.J.C., Burkart, S.E. & Pujol, G. 1988. The heterogeneity of the vegetation in arid and semiarid Patagonia: an analysis using AVHRR/NOAA satellite imagery. Ann. Bot. (Roma) 46: 103-114.
3. Baban, S.M.J. & Luke, C. 2000. Mapping agricultural land use using retrospective ground referenced data, satellite sensor imagery and GIS. Int. J. Rem. Sens. 21: 1757-1762.
4. Braun-Blanquet, J. 1950. Sociología vegetal. ACME, Buenos Aires, AR.
5. Bucher, E.H. 1982. Chaco and Caatinga - South American arid savannas, woodlands and thickets. In: Huntley, B.J. & Walker, B.H. (eds.) Ecology of tropical savannas, pp. 48-79. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.
6. Cabido, M. & Acosta, A. 1985. Estudio fitosociológico en bosques de Polylepis australis en las Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina. Doc. Phytosociol. 9: 385-400.
7. Cabido, M., González, C., Acosta, A. & Díaz, S. 1993. Vegetation changes along a precipitation gradient in Central Argentina. Vegetatio 109: 5-14.
8. Cabido, M., Manzur, A., Carranza, L. & González Albarracín, C. 1994. La vegetación y el medio físico del Chaco Arido en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina Central. Phytocoenologia 24: 423-460.
9. Cabrera, A.L. 1976. Regiones fitogeográficas argentinas. Enciclopedia Argentina de Agricultura y Jardinería. ACME, Buenos Aires, AR.
10. Capitanelli, R.G. 1979. Clima. In: Vázquez, J., Miatello, R. & Roqué M. (eds.) Geografía Física de la Provincia de Córdoba, pp. 45-138. Editorial Boldt, Buenos Aires, AR.
11. Cherrill, A.J., McClean, C., Lane, A. & Fuller, R.M. 1995. A comparison of land cover types in an ecological field survey in northern England and a remotely sensed land cover map of Great Britain. Biol. Conserv. 71: 313-323.
12. Congalton, R.G. 1991. A review of assessing the accuracy of classifications of remotely sensed data. Rem. Sens. Environ. 37: 35-46.
13. Congalton, R.G. & Green, K. 1999. Assessing the accuracy of remotely sensed data: principles and practices. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL.
14. Defries, R.S. & Townshend, J.R.G. 1999. Global land cover characterization from satellite data: from research to operational implementation? Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 8: 367-379.
15. Eastman, J.R. 1997. Idrisi for Windows 2.0. Clark Labs, Clark University, Worcester, MA.
16. Fuller, R.M., Wyatt, B.K. & Barr, C.J. 1998. Countryside survey from ground and space: different perspectives, complementary results. J. Environ. Manage. 54: 101-126.
17. García, M.C. & Alvarez, R. 1994. TM digital processing of a tropical forest region in southeastern Mexico. Int. J. Rem. Sens. 15: 1611-1632.
18. Green, G.M. & Sussman, R.W. 1990. Deforestation history of the eastern rain forests of Madagascar from satellite images. Science 248: 212-215.
19. Hill, M.O. 1979. DECORANA - A FORTRAN program for detrended correspondence analysis and reciprocal averaging. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
20. Hill, M.O. & Gauch Jr., H.G. 1980. Detrended correspondence analysis: an improved ordination technique. Vegetatio 42: 47-58.
21. Hobbs, R.J., Wallace, J.F. & Campbell, N.A. 1989. Classification of vegetation in the Western Australian wheat belt using Landsat MSS data. Vegetatio 80: 91-105.
22. Küchler, A.W. 1969. Natural and cultural vegetation. Prof. Geogr. 21: 383-385.
23. Kurtz, F. 1904. Flora. In: Río, M. & Achával, L. (eds.) Geografía de la Provincia de Córdoba. I, pp. 270-343. Cía. Sudamericana de Billetes de Banco, Buenos Aires, AR.
24. Kushwaha, S.P.S. 1990. Forest-type mapping and change detection from satellite imagery. J. Photogramm. Rem. Sens. 45: 175-181.
25. Lewis, J.P., Stofella, S., Prado, D.E., Pire, E.F., Franceschi, E.A. & Carnevale, N.J. 1990. Dynamics and floristic richness in the vegetation of a large depressed area of the Great Chaco. Flora 184: 63-77.
26. Lucas, R.M., Honzak, M., Foody, G.M., Curran, P.J. & Corves, C. 1993. Characterizing tropical secondary forests using multi-temporal Landsat sensor imagery. Int. J. Rem. Sens. 14: 3061-3067.
27. Luti, R., Bertran, M., Galera, M., Muller, N., Berzal, M., Nores, M., Herrera, M. & Barrera, J.C. 1979. Vegetación. In: Vázquez, J., Miatello, R. & Roqué M. (eds.) Geografía Física de la Provincia de Córdoba, pp. 297-368. Editorial Boldt, Buenos Aires, AR.
28. Mackey, E.C. & Tudor, G.J. 2000. Land cover changes in Scotland over the past 50 years. In: Alexander, R. & Millington, A.C. (eds.) Vegetation mapping: From patch to planet, pp. 235-258. J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK.
29. McCune, B. & Mefford, M.J. 1997. Multivariate analysis of ecological data. Version 3.0. MjM Software, Gleneden Beach, OR.
30. Millington, A.C. & Alexander, R.W. 2000. Vegetation mapping in the last three decades of the twentieth century. In: Alexander, R. & Millington, A.C. (eds.) Vegetation mapping: From patches to planet, pp. 321-331. J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK.
31. Morello, J. & Adamoli, J. 1974. Las grandes unidades de vegetación y ambiente del Chaco argentino. Segunda parte: Vegetación y ambiente del Chaco. La vegetación de la República Argentina. Serie Fitogeográfica INTA, Buenos Aires, AR.
32. Morello, J. & Saravia Toledo, C. 1959a. El bosque chaqueño I. Paisaje primitivo, paisaje natural y paisaje cultural del oriente de Salta. Rev. Agron. Noroeste Argent. 3: 5-82.
33. Morello, J. & Saravia Toledo, C. 1959b. El bosque chaqueño II. La ganadería y el bosque en el oriente de Salta. Rev. Agron. Noroeste Argent. 3: 209-258.
34. Paradella, W.R., da Silva, M.F.F., de Rosa, A.N. & Kushigbor, C.A. 1994. A geobotanical approach to the tropical rain forest environment of the Carajás Mineral Province (Amazon Region, Brazil) based on digital TM-Landsat and DEM data. Int. J. Rem. Sens. 15: 1631-1648.
35. Paruelo, J.M. & Lauenroth, W.K. 1995. Regional patterns of NDVI in North American shrublands and grasslands. Ecology 76: 1888-1898.
36. Paruelo, J.M., Jobbágy, E.G. & Sala, O.E. 1998. Biozones of Patagonia (Argentina). Ecol. Aust. 8: 145-153.
37. Pennington, R.T., Prado, D.E. & Pendry, C.A. 2000. Neotropical seasonally dry forests and Quaternary vegetation changes. J. Biogeogr. 27: 261-273.
38. Ramankutty, N. & Foley, J.A. 1999. Estimating historical changes in land cover: North American croplands from 1850 to 1992. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 8: 381-396.
39. Ramella, L. & Spichiger, R. 1989. Interpretación preliminar del medio físico y de la vegetación del Chaco Boreal. Contribución al estudio de la flora y de la vegetación del Chaco. I. Candollea 44: 639-680.
40. Rodríguez-Yi, J.L., Shimabukuro, E. & Rudorff, B.F.T. 2000. Image segmentation for classification of vegetation using NOAA AVHRR data. Int. J. Rem. Sens. 21: 167-172.
41. Sala, O.E., Chapin III, F.S., Armesto, J.J., Berlow, E., Bloomfield, J., Dirzo, R., Huber-Sanwald, E., Huenneke, L.F., Jackson, R.B., Kinzig, A., Leemans, R., Lodge, D.M., Mooney, H.A., Oesterheld, M., Poff, N.L., Sykes, M.T., Walker, B.H., Walker, M. & Wall, D.H. 2000. Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. Science 287: 1770-1774.
42. Sayago, M. 1969. Estudio fitogeográfico del norte de Córdoba. Bol. Acad. Nac. Cienc. Córdoba 46: 123-427.
43. Schofield, C.J. & Bucher, E.H. 1986. Industrial contributions to desertification in South America. Trends Ecol. Evol. 1: 78-80.
44. Shugart, H.H., French, N.H.F., Kasischke, E.S., Slawski, J.J., Dull, C.W., Schuchman, R.A. & Mwangi, J. 2001. Detection of vegetation change using reconnaissance imagery. Global Change Biol. 7: 247-252.
45. Singh, A. 1987. Spectral separability of tropical forest cover classes. Int. J. Rem. Sens. 8: 971-979.
46. Skole, D. & Tucker, C.J. 1993. Tropical deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the Amazon: satellite data from 1978 to 1988. Science 260: 1905-1910.
47. Soriano, A. & Paruelo, J.M. 1992. Biozones: vegetation units defined by functional characters identifiable with the aid of satellite sensor images. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. Lett. 2: 82-89.
48. Stehman, S.V. 1992. Comparison of systematic and random sampling for estimating the accuracy of maps generated from remotely sensed data. Photogramm. Eng. Rem. Sens. 58: 1343-1350.
49. Steininger, M.K. 2000. Satellite estimation of tropical secondary forest above-ground biomass: data from Brazil and Bolivia. Int. J. Rem. Sens. 21: 1139-1157.
50. Story, M. & Congalton, R.G. 1986. Accuracy assessment: a user's perspective. Photogramm. Eng. Rem. Sens. 52: 397-399.
51. Tanser, F. & Palmer, A.R. 2000. Vegetation mapping of the Great Fish River basin, South Africa: Integrating spatial and multi-spectral remote sensing techniques. Appl. Veg. Sci. 3: 197-204.
52. Tuomisto, H., Linna, A. & Kalliola, R. 1994. Use of digitally processed satellite images in studies of tropical rain forest vegetation. Int. J. Rem. Sens. 15: 1595-1610.
53. Tuomisto, H. 1998. What satellite imagery and large-scale field studies can tell about biodiversity patterns in Amazonian forests. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 85: 48-62.
54. Tüxen, R. 1956. Die heutige potentielle natürliche Vegetation als Gegenstand der Vegetationskartierung. Angew. Pflanzensoziol. (Stolzenau) 13: 5-42.
55. Vitousek, P.M., Mooney, H.A., Lubchenco, J. & Melillo, J.M. 1997. Human domination on Earth's ecosystems. Science 277: 494-499.
56. Vogelmann, J.E. 1995. Assessment of forest fragmentation in Southern New England using remote sensing and geographic information systems technology. Conserv. Biol. 9: 439-449.
57. Vogelmann, J.E., Sohl, T. & Howard, S.M. 1998. Regional characterization of land cover using multiple sources of data. Photogramm. Eng. Rem. Sens. 64: 45-57.
58. Wilkie, D.S. & Finn, J.T. 1996. Remote sensing imagery for natural resources monitoring: a guide for first time users. Columbia University Press, New York, NY.
59. Zuloaga, F.O., Nicora, E.G., Rúgolo de Agrasar, Z.E., Morrone, O., Pensiero, J. & Cialdella, A.M. 1994. Catálogo de la Familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Mo. Bot. Gard. 47: 1-178.
60. Zuloaga, F.O. & Morrone, O. (eds.) 1996. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Mo. Bot. Gard. 60: 1-323.
61. Zuloaga, F.O. & Morrone, O. (eds.) 1999. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la República Argentina. II. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Mo. Bot. Gard. 74: 1-1269.