An improved theoretical model of canopy gap probability for Leaf Area Index estimation in woody ecosystems

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 358, Issue , 2015, Pages 303-320

  Woodgate, William ^a,b   Disney, Mathias ^c   Armston, John D ^d,e   Jones, Simon D ^a,b   Suarez, Lola ^a,b   Hill, Michael J ^f   Wilkes, Phil ^a,b,g   Soto Berelov, Mariela ^a,b   Haywood, Andrew ^b,e,h   Mellor, Andrew ^a,b,e,h  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Andrew Haywood is with the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^h DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clumping; Eucalypt; Gap fraction; Leaf area index; Projection function; Woody area index

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

AREA INDEX; CLUMPING; EUCALYPT; GAP FRACTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; PROJECTION FUNCTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CANOPY GAP; DICOTYLEDON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODEL VALIDATION; SENSOR; STAND DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84942585285     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.09.030     Document Type: Article

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