Can terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) and hemispherical photographs predict tropical dry forest succession with liana abundance?

Biogeosciences

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 977-988

  Sánchez Azofeifa, Gerardo Arturo ^a   Guzmán Quesada, J Antonio ^a   Vega Araya, Mauricio ^b   Campos Vargas, Carlos ^a   Durán, Sandra Milena ^a   D'Souza, Nikhil ^a   Gianoli, Thomas ^a   Portillo Quintero, Carlos ^c   Sharp, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DROUGHT; DRY FOREST; FOREST CANOPY; LASER METHOD; PHOTOGRAPH; SCANNER; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION COVER; VINE; WOODY PLANT;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 85014527816     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-977-2017     Document Type: Article

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