Spatial and temporal variations of forest LAI in China during 2000-2010

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 2846-2856

  Liu, YiBo ^a   Ju, WeiMin ^a   Chen, JingMing ^a   Zhu, GaoLong ^a,b   Xing, BaiLing ^a   Zhu, JingFang ^a   He, MingZhu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

clumping index; forests of China; leaf area index; MODIS; spatial and temporal variations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865510463     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5064-8     Document Type: Article

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