Application of a geographically-weighted regression analysis to estimate net primary production of Chinese forest ecosystems

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 379-393

  Wang, Quan ^a   Ni, Jian ^b,c   Tenhunen, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

China; Forests; GWR; NDVI; NPP; OLS; Regression; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 22144438387     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2005.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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