Measuring fractional forest canopy element cover and openness - definitions and methodologies revisited

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1283-1291

  Gonsamo, Alemu ^a,b   D'odorico, Petra ^c   Pellikka, Petri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; GAS EXCHANGE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STANDARDIZATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84882681641     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00369.x     Document Type: Article

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