An approximately 50 km2 area was chosen within a coffee-growing region where data were collected on a variety of topographic and landscape features (aspect, slope, elevation, distance to river) and vegetation characteristics (canopy cover, vegetation structure, tree density) as predictive factors of vegetation, economic, and landslide damage at three distinct spatial scales.
Through this analysis, we directly related a functional characteristic, gross primary production with a structural characteristic, canopy chlorophyll content.
This is a result of differences in biometric characteristics, especially canopy morphology between the shrub species.
These characteristics (the canopy density, the trunk strength, and root parameters) depend on the vegetation species, age, and environmental aspects.
By contrast, the values for stand characteristics, including canopy height, mean DBH, and BA, increased with stand age.
This study used regression analysis to model the height increment of spruce understorey as a function of seedling height, site characteristics and canopy structure.
The abundance of coccinellids in shelterbelts was influenced to a greater extent by adjacent crop type and aphid abundance rather than vegetation characteristics like canopy flowers.
After masking out the unwanted artifacts according to their own characteristics, the canopy could be segmented from the images using edge operators and morphological operations.
These effects depend on the density of woody plants and associated characteristics of canopy architecture such as height, and can be particularly important in deserts.
A new spectral analysis method through the consideration of characteristics of canopy components and plant growth status varied with phenological growth stages was designed to explore the common central bands in rice and wheat.
To test the differentiation of the populations from the three provenances based on soil rhizosphere characteristics, tree canopy composition and site elevation, Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) with the superimposition of the confidence ellipses (for α = 0.05) for the three metapopulations was performed.
