Characterising spatiotemporal environmental and natural variation using a dynamic habitat index throughout the province of Ontario

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 303-311

  Michaud, Jean Simon ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Andrew, Margaret E ^b   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic habitat index; fPAR; MERIS; Monitoring; Productivity; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FPAR; FRACTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATIONS; FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; LANDSCAPE SCALE; MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MERIS; MONITORING ACTIVITIES; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NATURAL VARIATION; NON-PARAMETRIC; ONTARIO; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL DATASETS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TREND ANALYSIS; TREND TESTS; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY; DYNAMIC HABITAT INDICES;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

PRODUCTIVITY;

BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MERIS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TIME SERIES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT TYPE; THRESHOLD; TOPOGRAPHY; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84055200778     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.027     Document Type: Article

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