Integration of CO 2 flux and remotelysensed data for primary production and ecosystem respiration analyses in the Northern Great Plains: potential for quantitative spatial extrapolation

Authors

Tagir G. Gilmanov, South Dakota State UniversityFollow
Larry L. Tieszen, SAIC, USGS/EROS
Bruce K. Wylie, SAIC, USGS/EROSFollow
Larry B. Flanagan, University of Lethbridge
Albert B. Frank, Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory
Marshall R. Haferkamp, USDA-ARS
Tilden P. Meyers, NOAA/ARL
Jack A. Morgan, Natural Resources Research Center

Date of this Version

2005

Comments

Published in Global Ecology and Biogeography, (Global Ecol. Biogeogr.) (2005) 14, 271–292.

Abstract

Aim Extrapolation of tower CO₂ fluxes will be greatly facilitated if robust relationships between flux components and remotely sensed factors are established. Long-term measurements at five Northern Great Plains locations were used to obtain relationships between CO₂ fluxes and photosynthetically active radiation (Q), other on-site factors, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from the SPOT VEGETATION data set.