Modeling distribution of Amazonian tree species and diversity using remote sensing measurements

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2000-2017

  Saatchi, Sassan ^a   Buermann, Wolfgang ^b   ter Steege, Hans ^c   Mori, Scott ^d   Smith, Thomas B ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^e Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon basin; Maxent; Remote sensing data; Species distribution; Tree diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MAXENT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TREE DIVERSITY;

FORESTRY;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TREES;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 41249092053     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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