Predicting satellite-derived patterns of large-scale disturbances in forests of the Pacific Northwest Region in response to recent climatic variation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3554-3566

  Waring, Richard H ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^b   Running, Steven W ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 PG model; Climatic change; Decision tree models; MODIS global disturbance index; Remote sensing; Species geographic distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREES; DECISION-TREE MODEL; DISTURBANCE INDEX; DOUGLAS FIR; ECOREGIONS; FORESTED AREA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH POTENTIAL; MAXIMUM LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS IMAGERY; MOISTURE STORAGE CAPACITY; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; SOIL FERTILITY; VULNERABLE AREA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NASA; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECISION ANALYSIS; DISTURBANCE; ECOREGION; FIRE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; PEST OUTBREAK; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CLIMATES; DECISION THEORY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE CONTENT; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CONIFERALES; HEXAPODA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 81355127617     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.017     Document Type: Article

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