Modeling environmental niche of Himalayan birch and remote sensing based vicarious validation

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 321-329

  Singh, Chandra Prakash ^a   Panigrahy, Sushma ^a   Parihar, Jai Singh ^a   Dharaiya, Nishith ^b  

^a Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

^b HEMCHANDRACHARYA NORTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Alpine treeline ecotone (ATE); Bioclimatic indices; Environmental niche; GARP; NDVI; Remote sensing; Uttarakhand

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; NICHE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREELINE;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 84876257621     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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