Use of an Airborne Lidar System to Model Plant Species Composition and Diversity of Mediterranean Oak Forests

An examination of whether different aspects of plant species diversity and composition can be related to vegetation structure using airborne lidar as a remote-sensing tool to characterize three-dimensional vegetation structure for Mediterranean oak forests in southern Portugal.

SIMONSON, W.D.; ALLEN, H.D.; COOMES; D.A.
2012
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