Spatial assessment of the bioclimatic and environmental factors driving mangrove tree species' distribution along the Brazilian coastline

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Ximenes, Arimatéa C ^a,b   Maeda, Eduardo Eiji ^c   Arcoverde, Gustavo Felipe Balué ^d   Dahdouh Guebas, Farid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acanthaceae; Climate; Conservation; Data intensive science; Data driven; Remote sensing; Rhizophoraceae; Wetland

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONSERVATION; FORESTRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WETLANDS;

ACANTHACEAE; CLIMATE; DATA DRIVEN; DATA INTENSIVE SCIENCE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84974794958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8060451     Document Type: Article

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