Seasonal variation of tropical forest LAI based on field measurements in Central African Republic

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 181-194

  De Wasseige, C ^a   Bastin, D ^a   Defourny, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Forest structure; Geostatistics; LAI; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; GEOSTATISTICS; LEAF AREA INDEX; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

AFRICA;

EID: 0345393224     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(03)00138-2     Document Type: Article

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