The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): Unforeseen successes in animal ecology

Climate Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-27

  Pettorelli, Nathalie ^a   Ryan, Sadie ^b   Mueller, Thomas ^c   Bunnefeld, Nils ^d   Jedrzejewska, Bogumila ^e   Lima, Mauricio ^f   Kausrud, Kyrre ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Environmental change; NDVI; Primary productivity; Remote sensing; Satellite

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LATEST DEVELOPMENT; LIFE HISTORY; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL LAGS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING;

VEGETATION;

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HERBIVORE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79956354686     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00936     Document Type: Review

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