Vegetation recovery following extreme winter warming events in the sub-Arctic estimated using NDVI from remote sensing and handheld passive proximal sensors

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-25

  Bokhorst, S ^a,b   Tommervik H ^b   Callaghan, T V ^a,c   Phoenix, G K ^a   Bjerke, J W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dwarf shrubs; Extreme weather; Feather moss; Image analysis; Peltigera lichens; Snow melt

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTREME EVENT; LICHEN; MOSS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SHRUB; SNOWMELT; SUBARCTIC REGION; SUCCESSION; TROPHIC LEVEL; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WARMING; WINTER;

BRYOPHYTA; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; PELTIGERA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84858972799     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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