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DOI | 10.1002/2016WR019887 |
On the use of a snow aridity index to predict remotely sensed forest productivity in the presence of bark beetle disturbance | |
Knowles, John F.1; Lestak, Leanne R.1; Molotch, Noah P.1,2,3 | |
2017-06-01 | |
发表期刊 | WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
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ISSN | 0043-1397 |
EISSN | 1944-7973 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 53期号:6 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | We used multiple sources of remotely sensed and ground based information to evaluate the spatiotemporal variability of snowpack accumulation, potential evapotranspiration (PET), and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) throughout the Southern Rocky Mountain ecoregion, USA. Relationships between these variables were used to establish baseline values of expected forest productivity given water and energy inputs. Although both the snow water equivalent (SWE) and a snow aridity index (SAI), which used SWE to normalize PET, were significant predictors of the long-term (1989-2012) NDVI, SAI explained 11% more NDVI variability than SWE. Deviations from these relationships were subsequently explored in the context of widespread forest mortality due to bark beetles. Over the entire study area, NDVI was lower per unit SAI in beetle-disturbed compared to undisturbed areas during snow-related drought; however, both SAI and NDVI were spatially heterogeneous within this domain. As a result, we selected three focus areas inside the larger study area within which to isolate the relative impacts of SAI and disturbance on NDVI using multivariate linear regression. These models explained 66%-85% of the NDVI and further suggested that both SAI and disturbance effects were significant, although the disturbance effect was generally greater. These results establish the utility of SAI as a measure of moisture limitation in snow-dominated systems and demonstrate a reduction in forest productivity due to bark beetle disturbance that is particularly evident during drought conditions resultant from low snow accumulation during the winter. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000405997000023 |
WOS关键词 | RIO-GRANDE HEADWATERS ; MOUNTAIN PINE-BEETLE ; WATER EQUIVALENT ; HIGH-ELEVATION ; COVER DATA ; TREE MORTALITY ; SEVERE DROUGHT ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; BOREAL FOREST ; UNITED-STATES |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Limnology ; Water Resources |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Marine & Freshwater Biology ; Water Resources |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/20009 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Colorado, Inst Arctic & Alpine Res, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; 2.Univ Colorado, Dept Geog, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; 3.CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Knowles, John F.,Lestak, Leanne R.,Molotch, Noah P.. On the use of a snow aridity index to predict remotely sensed forest productivity in the presence of bark beetle disturbance[J]. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,2017,53(6). |
APA | Knowles, John F.,Lestak, Leanne R.,&Molotch, Noah P..(2017).On the use of a snow aridity index to predict remotely sensed forest productivity in the presence of bark beetle disturbance.WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,53(6). |
MLA | Knowles, John F.,et al."On the use of a snow aridity index to predict remotely sensed forest productivity in the presence of bark beetle disturbance".WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 53.6(2017). |
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