Effects of disturbance and climate change on ecosystem performance in the Yukon River basin boreal forest

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9145-9169

  Wylie, Bruce ^a   Rigge, Matthew ^b   Brisco, Brian ^c   Murnaghan, Kevin ^c   Rover, Jennifer ^a   Long, Jordan ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ASRC Federal InuTeq ^*  (United States)

^c CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal; Climate change; Fire; Forest composition; Future; Succession

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; FORESTRY; PRODUCTIVITY; WATERSHEDS;

BOREAL; FOREST COMPOSITIONS; FUTURE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; PERFORMANCE ANOMALY; PIECEWISE REGRESSION; SUCCESSION; YUKON RIVER BASINS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATES; COEFFICIENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWOODS;

EID: 84923582917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6109145     Document Type: Article

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