Progressive forest canopy water loss during the 2012-2015 California drought

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2016, Pages E249-E255

  Asner, Gregory P ^a   Brodrick, Philip G ^a   Anderson, Christopher B ^a   Vaughn, Nicholas ^a   Knapp, David E ^a   Martin, Roberta E ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy water; Climate change; Drought; Forest health; Imaging spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; WATER;

ARTICLE; CANOPY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LANDSCAPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTENT; WATER LOSS; WATER STRESS; WATER SUPPLY; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESICCATION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESICCATION; DROUGHTS; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PLANT LEAVES; WATER;

EID: 84954357227     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523397113     Document Type: Article

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