A proxy for snow cover and winter ground surface cooling: Mapping Usnea sp. communities using high resolution remote sensing imagery (Maritime Antarctica)

Geomorphology

Volumn 225, Issue C, 2014, Pages 69-75

  Vieira, Gonçalo ^a   Mora, Carla ^a   Pina, Pedro ^b   Schaefer, Carlos E R ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE GEOGRAFIA E ORDENAMENTO DO TERRITÓRIO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Bioindicators; Fildes Peninsula; Ground surface cooling; Permafrost; Snow cover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899034624     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.03.049     Document Type: Article

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