Spectroscopic determination of leaf morphological and biochemical traits for northern temperate and boreal tree species

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1651-1669

  Serbin, Shawn P ^a,c   Singh, Aditya ^a   McNeil, Brenden E ^b   Kingdon, Clayton C ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foliar chemistry; Forests; Partial least squares regression; Plant functional traits; PLSR; Reflectance spectroscopy; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TEMPERATE FOREST; TREE;

NITROGEN;

FOREST; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; SPECTROSCOPY; TREE;

FORESTS; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 84903762295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2110.1     Document Type: Article

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