Parallel seasonal patterns of photosynthesis, fluorescence, and reflectance indices in boreal trees

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Springer, Kyle R ^a   Wang, Ran ^a   Gamon, John A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal; CCI; Chlorophyll fluorescence; NDVI; Phenology; Photosynthesis; PRI; SIF; Winter downregulation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CHLOROPHYLL; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFLECTION;

BOREAL; CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; DOWN-REGULATION; NDVI; PHENOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

EID: 85022330764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9070691     Document Type: Article

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