Modelling species distributions with high resolution remote sensing data to delineate patterns of plant diversity in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso

Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Processing for Land Degradation Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 199-209

  König, Konstantin ^a   Schmidt, Marco ^b   Müller, Jonas V ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

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