Satellite detection of bird communities in tropical countryside

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1499-1510

  Ranganathan, Jai ^a   Chan, Kai M A ^b   Daily, Gretchen C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Agroecology; Biodiversity; Conservation value; Costa Rica; Countryside biogeography; Kauth Thomas; Landsat; NDVI; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; Remote sensing; Tasseled cap

Indexed keywords

AGROECOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST COVER; LAND USE; LANDSAT; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

AVES;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 34848844451     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0285.1     Document Type: Article

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