Rainfall, topography and primary production relationships in a semiarid ecosystem

Ecohydrology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-66

  Svoray, Tal ^a   Karnieli, Arnon ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annuals; Normalized difference vegetation index; Precipitation; Primary production; Pulse; SPOT

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

ANNUALS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRECIPITATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PULSE; SPOT;

RAIN;

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 78751523171     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.123     Document Type: Article

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