Landscape-scale variation in plant community composition of an African savanna from airborne species mapping

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 84-93

  Baldeck, C A ^a   Colgan, M S ^a   Feret J B ^a   Levick, S R ^b   Martin, R E ^a   Asner, G P ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carnegie Airborne Observatory; Catena; Community; Imaging spectroscopy; Kruger National Park; Lidar; Remote sensing; Savanna; South Africa; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CATENA; LIDAR; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOTE SENSING; SAVANNA; SHRUB;

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AFRICA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; PLANT; SOUTH AFRICA;

BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; PLANTS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84893392979     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0307.1     Document Type: Article

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