Sentences with phrase «measuring vegetation response»
Stillwater Sciences and American Rivers define standard methods for measuring vegetation response to meadow restoration in the Sierra Nevada.
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«We will evaluate these responses for the first time at a regional scale using remotely sensed indicators of vegetation condition and fire - induced tree mortality to measure the response of floodplain forests to inter-annual flood variability and extreme climate events,» said Marcia Macedo, a research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center.
The researchers believe the greening is a response to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide inducing decreases in plant stomatal conductance — the measure of the rate of passage of carbon dioxide entering, or water vapor exiting, through the stomata of a leaf — and increases in soil water, thus enhancing vegetation growth.
The discrepancy is because we measured the impacts on vegetation and soils achieved by ranchers managing at the ranch scale and adapting management in response to changing circumstances in order to achieve desirable outcomes» (Teague, et al 2011 (ISBN 978 -1-60692-023-7)-RRB-.
While the human eye can discern colors in the visible spectrum, by also measuring the spectral response of the surface in reflective infrared light a far more precise picture is provided of impacts to forest vegetation.