Landscape-level variation in forest structure and biogeochemistry across a substrate age gradient in Hawaii

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3074-3086

  Peter, Vitousek ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Chadwick And, Oliver A ^c   Sara, Hotchkiss ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy nitrogen; Canopy structure; Carnegie airborne observatory; Chronosequence; Dicranopteris linearis; Hawaii (usa); Landscape ecology; Remote sensing; Substrate age gradient

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

AGE STRUCTURE; AIRBORNE SURVEY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DOMINANCE; FERN; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; GPS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SPECTROMETER;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FERN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; FERNS; HAWAII; NITROGEN; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

DICRANOPTERIS LINEARIS; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 72449193688     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0813.1     Document Type: Article

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