Modeling regional variation in net primary production of pinyon-juniper ecosystems

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 227, Issue , 2012, Pages 82-92

  Huang, Cho Ying ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Barger, Nichole N ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach (CASA); Dryland; Managed grazing; Remote sensing; Topography

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; CARBON FLUXES; COLORADO PLATEAU; DRYLAND; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; LAND TENURE; MANAGED GRAZING; MONTANE ECOSYSTEMS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REGIONAL SCALE; REGIONAL VARIATION; REMOTE AREAS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SPATIAL DYNAMICS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANFORD; TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; VALIDATION DATA; WOODY VEGETATION;

FACINGS; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST COVER; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; LAND TENURE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WOODLAND;

COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 84862778124     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.12.016     Document Type: Article

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