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
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