Estimating net primary production of Swedish forest landscapes by combining mechanistic modeling and remote sensing

Ambio

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 316-324

  Tagesson, Torbern ^a   Smith, Benjamin ^a   Löfgren, Anders ^b   Rammig, Anja ^c   Eklundh, Lars ^a   Lindroth, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ^*  (Sweden)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RADIATION BALANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION TYPE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWEDEN; TELECOMMUNICATION; TREE; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SWEDEN; TREES;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77649260612     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/08-A-513.1     Document Type: Article

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64. This study was funded by SKB, and we would especially like to thank them for making this study possible. Thanks to Thomas Hickler for advice on the modeling process. Ambio editors Harald Grip and Elisabeth Kessler and an anonymous referee provided thoughtful comments that led to improvements in the manuscript.
65. First submitted 24 April 2008. Accepted for publication 18 March 2009.