Nonlinear response of vegetation green-up to local temperature variations in temperate and boreal forests in the Northern Hemisphere

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 165, Issue , 2015, Pages 100-108

  Park, Hoonyoung ^a   Jeong, Su Jong ^b   Ho, Chang Hoi ^a   Kim, Jinwon ^c   Brown, Molly E ^d   Schaepman, Michael E ^e  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Global ecology; Northern Hemisphere; Phenology; Rate of canopy development; Temperate and boreal forest

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; VEGETATION;

BOREAL FORESTS; CANOPY DEVELOPMENT; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHENOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DORMANCY; MATURATION; NONLINEARITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY;

ECOLOGY; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTS; PHENOLOGY;

EID: 84929573166     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.04.030     Document Type: Article

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