Scale dependence in quantification of land-cover and biomass change over Siberian boreal forest landscapes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1299-1313

  Zhao, Tingting ^a,b   Bergen, Kathleen M ^a   Brown, Daniel G ^a   Shugart, Herman H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Disturbance; FAREAST model; Forest succession; Land cover change; Resolution; Scale

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BOREAL FOREST; DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MODEL TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SCALE EFFECT; SUCCESSION;

SIBERIA;

EID: 76349118327     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9379-z     Document Type: Article

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