Remote sensing analysis of vegetation recovery following short-interval fires in Southern California Shrublands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Meng, Ran ^a   Dennison, Philip E ^a   D'Antonio, Carla M ^b   Moritz, Max A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANOPY; CLIMATE; EVERGREEN; FIRE; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RECOVERY; REMOTE SENSING; SCRUB; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEGETATION; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT DISPERSAL;

CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT DISPERSAL; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84908428832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110637     Document Type: Article

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