TY - JOUR
T1 - Regional ecosystem structure and function
T2 - ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests
AU - Chambers, Jeffrey Q.
AU - Asner, Gregory P.
AU - Morton, Douglas C.
AU - Anderson, Liana O.
AU - Saatchi, Sassan S.
AU - Espírito-Santo, Fernando D.B.
AU - Palace, Michael
AU - Souza, Carlos
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the participants of the NASA LBA-ECO Forest Disturbance and Recovery Synthesis Workshop held at Tulane University in June 2006: Luiz Aragao, Vilany Carneiro, Elise Chapman, Marcos Costa, Ruth DeFries, Jeremy Fisher, Niro Higuchi, George Hurtt, Michael Keller, Steve Klooster, Mark Kramer, Paul Moorcroft, Lucie Plourde, Amanda Robertson, Sami Rifai, Marie-Louise Smith, Liliane Teixiera and Yadvinder Malhi. This work was funded by NASA LBA-ECO grant CD-34.
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - Ecological studies in tropical forests have long been plagued by difficulties associated with sampling the crowns of large canopy trees and large inaccessible regions, such as the Amazon basin. Recent advances in remote sensing have overcome some of these obstacles, enabling progress towards tackling difficult ecological problems. Breakthroughs have helped transform the dialog between ecology and remote sensing, generating new regional perspectives on key environmental gradients and species assemblages with ecologically relevant measures such as canopy nutrient and moisture content, crown area, leaf-level drought responses, woody tissue and surface litter abundance, phenological patterns, and land-cover transitions. Issues that we address here include forest response to altered precipitation regimes, regional disturbance and land-use patterns, invasive species and landscape carbon balance.
AB - Ecological studies in tropical forests have long been plagued by difficulties associated with sampling the crowns of large canopy trees and large inaccessible regions, such as the Amazon basin. Recent advances in remote sensing have overcome some of these obstacles, enabling progress towards tackling difficult ecological problems. Breakthroughs have helped transform the dialog between ecology and remote sensing, generating new regional perspectives on key environmental gradients and species assemblages with ecologically relevant measures such as canopy nutrient and moisture content, crown area, leaf-level drought responses, woody tissue and surface litter abundance, phenological patterns, and land-cover transitions. Issues that we address here include forest response to altered precipitation regimes, regional disturbance and land-use patterns, invasive species and landscape carbon balance.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2007.05.001
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2007.05.001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17493704
AN - SCOPUS:34447327561
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 22
SP - 414
EP - 423
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 8
ER -