Forest greenness after the massive 2008 Chinese ice storm: Integrated effects of natural processes and human intervention

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Ying ^a,b   Gu, Lianhong ^b   Dickinson, Robert E ^a   Zhou, Benzhi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Forests; Human intervention; Ice storm; Large extreme events; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING; STORMS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXTREME EVENTS; FORESTS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; ICE STORM; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; TEMPORAL TRAJECTORIES;

ICE;

DISTURBANCE; EPIPHYTE; EXTREME EVENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; ICE STORM; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MOISTURE CONTENT; REMOTE SENSING; RESPROUTING; SALVAGING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; ICE; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

CHINA;

EID: 84867056222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/035702     Document Type: Article

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