Spectral indices accurately quantify changes in seedling physiology following fire: Towards mechanistic assessments of post-fire carbon cycling

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Sparks, Aaron M ^a   Kolden, Crystal A ^a   Talhelm, Alan F ^b   Smith, Alistair M S ^a   Apostol, Kent G ^c   Johnson, Daniel M ^a   Boschetti, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Fire; Mortality; Recovery; Remote sensing; Severity

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INCINERATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOVERY; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FIRE RADIATIVE ENERGIES; MORTALITY; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SEVERITY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; VEGETATION STRESS;

FIRES;

EID: 85017286178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8070572     Document Type: Article

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