Mesoscale assessment of changes in tropical tree species richness across a bioclimatic gradient in Panama using airborne imaging spectroscopy

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 167, Issue , 2015, Pages 111-120

  Somers, Ben ^a,d   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Martin, Roberta E ^b   Anderson, Christopher B ^b   Knapp, David E ^b   Wright, S Joseph ^c   Van De Kerchove, Ruben ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Biodiversity; Climate change; Hyperspectral; Spectral variation hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; INFRARED RADIATION; NASA; REFLECTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTROMETERS; TROPICS;

ALPHA DIVERSITY; BETA DIVERSITIES; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; HYPERSPECTRAL; PRECIPITATION GRADIENTS; SOIL WATER AVAILABILITY; SPECTRAL VARIATION; TROPICAL TREE SPECIES;

FORESTRY;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; EUROPEAN UNION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL WATER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CARIBBEAN COAST [PANAMA]; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84938989477     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.04.016     Document Type: Article

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