Near surface air humidity in a megadiverse Andean mountain ecosystem of southern Ecuador and its regionalization

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-30

  Fries, Andreas ^a,b   Rollenbeck, Rütger ^b   Nauß, Thomas ^c   Peters, Thorsten ^d   Bendix, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distribution; Forest and open land; Near surface humidity; Regionalization; South Ecuador; Structure

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOOR; GLOBAL WARMING; IRRADIATION; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MONTANE FOREST; OPEN SPACE; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADIATION BUDGET; REGIONALIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SHIFTING CULTIVATION;

ANDES; ECUADOR;

EID: 80052703054     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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