Climate anomalies provide opportunities for large-scale mapping of non-native plant abundance in desert grasslands

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 875-884

  Huang, Cho Ying ^a   Geiger, Erika L ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Desert grasslands; Eragrostis lehmanniana; Herbaceous biomass; MODIS; Phenology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE EFFECT; DESERT; DOMINANCE; GRASS; GRASSLAND; INVASIVE SPECIES; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS LEHMANNIANA; POACEAE;

EID: 49549094015     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00500.x     Document Type: Article

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