Local climate determines the NDVI-based primary productivity and flooding creates heterogeneity in semi-arid floodplain ecosystem

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 242, Issue , 2012, Pages 116-126

  Wen, Li ^a   Yang, Xihua ^a   Saintilan, Neil ^a  

^a OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecosystem functioning; Floodplain wetland; GAM; Heterogeneity; Macquarie marshes; MODIS; NDVI; Primary productivity

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; FLOOD PLAINS; GAM; HETEROGENEITY; MACQUARIE MARSHES; MODIS; NDVI; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CLIMATE CHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC REGION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HETEROGENEITY; MODIS; NDVI; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONALITY; SEMIARID REGION; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE MARSHES; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84863430709     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.05.018     Document Type: Article

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