Effects of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on biogeochemical and biogeophysical MODIS products

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 974-982

  Bright, Benjamin C ^a   Hicke, Jeffrey A ^a   Meddens, Arjan J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Evapotranspiration; Gross primary productivity; Land surface temperature; Leaf area index; Mountain pine beetle

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; BEETLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DISTURBANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LANDSAT; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; MORTALITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; POPULATION OUTBREAK; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84886658051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20078     Document Type: Article

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