OBJECTIVES

1 -- COMMUNITY COMPOSITION

1.1 Species
1.2 Plant Structural or Functional Types

2 -- CANOPY PROPERTIES

2.1 Leaf Area Index (LAI)
2.2 Cover or Closure
2.3 Biomass
      2.3.1 Radar remote sensing detection of biomass
2.4 Height and Architecture
      2.4.1 Lidar remote sensing detection of height and architecture

3 -- ECOPHYSIOLOGY

3.1 Temperature
3.2 Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD)
3.3 Soil and Leaf Water Potential

4 -- VEGETATION DYNAMICS

4.1 Phenology
4.2 Disturbance
4.3 Long-Term Global Change

 5 -- SPECTRAL VEGETATION INDICES (SVIs)

5.1 Simple Ratio (SR)
5.2 Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
5.3 Other SVIs
5.4 Variability in SVIs 

6 -- PRIMARY PRODUCTION, PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION (PAR), AND LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY (LUE)

6.1 Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)
      6.1.1 Incident PAR
      6.1.2 Intercepted PAR (IPAR), absorbed PAR (APAR),
               and fractional PAR (fPAR)
      6.1.3 Instantaneous fAPAR, average daily fAPAR, and integrated APAR
6.2 Light Use Efficiency (LUE)

REVIEW QUESTIONS

REFERENCES

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