Seasonal variation in the NDVI-species richness relationship in a prairie grassland experiment (cedar creek)

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Ran ^a   Gamon, John A ^a,b   Montgomery, Rebecca A ^c   Townsend, Philip A ^d   Zygielbaum, Arthur I ^b   Bitan, Keren ^c   Tilman, David ^c   Cavender Bares, Jeannine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Grassland; NDVI; Productivity; Remote sensing; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PRODUCTIVITY; VEGETATION;

DIVERSITY-PRODUCTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GRASSLAND; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84962611826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020128     Document Type: Article

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