MODIS-based vegetation index has sufficient sensitivity to indicate stand-level intra-seasonal climatic stress in oak and beech forests

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 109-125

  Hlásny, Tomáš ^a,b   Barka, Ivan ^a,b   Sitková, Zuzana ^a   Bucha, Tomáš ^a   Konôpka, Milan ^a   Lukáč, Martin ^c  

^a FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drought stress; Heat stress; NDVI; Neural networks; Regression modelling; Temperate forest

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; IMAGING METHOD; MODIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION INDEX;

FAGUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 84919950821     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-014-0404-2     Document Type: Article

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