Integrated analysis of productivity and biodiversity in a southern Alberta prairie

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Ran ^a   Gamon, John A ^a   Emmerton, Craig A ^a   Li, Haitao ^a   Nestola, Enrica ^b   Pastorello, Gilberto Z ^c   Menzer, Olaf ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biomass; Eddy covariance; Grassland; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETRY; VEGETATION;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS; GRASSLAND; GRASSLAND PRODUCTIVITY; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 84962621859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030214     Document Type: Article

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