Photographic assessment of temperate forest understory phenology in relation to springtime meteorological drivers

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 343-355

  Liang, Liang ^a   Schwartz, Mark D ^b   Fei, Songlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital photography; EOS Land Validation Core Sites; Forest understory; Landscape phenology; Temperate forest

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANTS; SEASONS; TREES; WEATHER; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84857039604     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-011-0438-1     Document Type: Article

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