Microtopographic controls on lowland Amazonian canopy diversity from imaging spectroscopy

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1297-1310

  Féret, Jean Baptiste ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne imaging spectroscopy; Alpha diversity; Amazon basin; Beta diversity; Bray Curtis index; Canopy diversity; Carnegie airborne observatory; Microtopography; Peru; Shannon index; Tropical forest canopy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST CANOPY; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWAMP; TERRACE; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST; TURNOVER;

AMAZONIA; PERU;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; PERU; PROCEDURES; SPECTROSCOPY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; PERU; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907009390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1896.1     Document Type: Article

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