Plant species richness is associated with canopy height and topography in a neotropical forest

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4010-4021

  Wolf, Jeffrey A ^a   Fricker, Geoffrey A ^a   Meyer, Victoria ^b   Hubbell, Stephen P ^a,c   Gillespie, Thomas W ^a   Saatchi, Sassan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Barro colorado island; Canopy height; Lidar; Species richness; Topography

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR; BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESS; CANOPY HEIGHTS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARE; NEOTROPICAL FORESTS; PLANT SPECIES; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS; TREE SPECIES; TROPICAL FOREST;

LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84872321898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4124010     Document Type: Article

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