Long term and seasonal courses of leaf area index in a semi-arid forest plantation

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 565-574

  Sprintsin, Michael ^a   Cohen, S ^b   Maseyk, K ^c,e   Rotenberg, E ^c   Grunzweig J ^d   Karnieli, A ^a   Berliner, P ^a   Yakir, D ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Clumping index; Gap fraction; Non contact measurements; TRAC

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DESERT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LEAF AREA INDEX; LITTER; PHENOLOGY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION;

ISRAEL; JUDEAN DESERT; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 79952040777     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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