Assessment of fine-scale plant species beta diversity using WorldView-2 satellite spectral dissimilarity

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  Dalmayne, Jonas ^a   Möckel, Thomas ^a   Prentice, Honor C ^b   Schmid, Barbara C ^b   Hall, Karin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Habitat heterogeneity; High spatial resolution; Plot size; Species turnover; Spectral distance

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GRASSLAND; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VASCULAR PLANT;

BALTIC COAST [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN;

EID: 84879741107     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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