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Toward a better understanding of variation in the amount of leaf area in vegetation

Author(s) -

Cornwell William K.

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of vegetation science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1

H-Index - 115

eISSN - 1654-1103

pISSN - 1100-9233

DOI - 10.1111/jvs.12343

Subject(s) - biome , vegetation (pathology) , ecology , leaf area index , variation (astronomy) , vegetation index , key (lock) , geography , environmental science , ecosystem , normalized difference vegetation index , biology , medicine , physics , pathology , astrophysics

An unsolved problem in vegetation ecology is characterizing the variation in leaf area index ( LAI ). A key limitation is the lack of high‐quality, geographically diverse, multi‐biome training data sets. Döbert et al., in this issue of the Journal of Vegetation Science , link a classic vegetation description method to LAI . This potentially adds a new tool to the ground and remote approaches.

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