Recent trends in satellite vegetation index observations indicate decreasing vegetation biomass in the southeastern saline everglades wetlands

Wetlands

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 67-77

  Fuller, Douglas O ^a   Wang, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass production; Mangroves; MODIS NDVI; Non parametric trend analysis; Sawgrass marsh

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894079145     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-013-0483-0     Document Type: Article

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