An improved approach for remotely sensing water stress impacts on forest C uptake

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2856-2866

  Sims, Daniel A ^a   Brzostek, Edward R ^a   Rahman, Abdullah F ^a   Dragoni, Danilo ^a   Phillips, Richard P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deciduous forest; Drought; Gross primary production; Normalized difference vegetation index; Standardized precipitation index; US Drought Monitor

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; WATER STRESS;

UNITED STATES;

CARBON;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARBON; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHTS; FORESTS; LINEAR MODELS; PLANT LEAVES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TREES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905121413     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12537     Document Type: Article

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