The spatial sensitivity of the spectral diversity-biodiversity relationship: An experimental test in a prairie grassland

Ecological Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 541-556

  Wang, Ran ^a   Gamon, John A ^a,b   Cavender Bares, Jeannine ^c   Townsend, Philip A ^d   Zygielbaum, Arthur I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity; Cedar Creek; imaging spectroscopy; remote sensing; scaling; spectral diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; HERB; PHYLOGENETICS; PIXEL; PRAIRIE; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTROMETER; SPECTROSCOPY;

CEDAR CREEK ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE RESERVE; MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRASSLAND; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; GRASSLAND; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85042706555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eap.1669     Document Type: Article

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