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Spectral Heterogeneity Predicts Local-Scale Gamma and Beta Diversity of Mesic Grasslands

H. Wayne Polley,
Chenghai Yang,
Brian J. Wilsey and
Philip A. Fay

Remote Sens.2019, 11(4), 458;https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11040458

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23 February 2019

Plant species diversity is an important metric of ecosystem functioning, but field assessments of diversity are constrained in number and spatial extent by labor and other expenses. We tested the utility of using spatial heterogeneity in the remotely...

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Phenology-Based Biomass Estimation to Support Rangeland Management in Semi-Arid Environments

Anne Schucknecht,
Michele Meroni,
Francois Kayitakire and
Amadou Boureima

Remote Sens.2017, 9(5), 463;https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9050463

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10 May 2017

Livestock plays an important economic role in Niger, especially in the semi-arid regions, while being highly vulnerable as a result of the large inter-annual variability of precipitation and, hence, rangeland production. This study aims to support ef...

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