Urban heat island impacts on plant phenology: Intra-urban variability and response to land cover

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Zipper, Samuel C ^a,b   Schatz, Jason ^a   Singh, Aditya ^a   Kucharik, Christopher J ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^a   Loheide, Steven P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface phenology; Remote sensing; Sensor network; Urban climate; Urban ecology; Urban heat island; Vegetation phenology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR NETWORKS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THERMAL POLLUTION;

LAND SURFACE PHENOLOGY; URBAN CLIMATES; URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

GRASS; GROWING SEASON; HEAT ISLAND; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN CLIMATE;

MADISON; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 85014427917     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054023     Document Type: Article

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