Primary production dynamics and climate variability: Ecological consequences in semiarid Chile
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Maza, Mariano de la
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Primary production dynamics and climate variability: Ecological consequences in semiarid Chile
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Increase in rainfall variability has important consequences for organisms in arid and semiarid regions around the world. In South American and Australian deserts, the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon greatly influences rainfall patterns, and therefore the dynamics of plant communities. However, the field data needed to assess the effect of climate change on vegetational patterns is difficult to obtain because of the large spatial scale required for such studies. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) characteristics allow the use of several indexes related to vegetational structure. Due to its direct relationship with primary productivity, it is possible to obtain several measures of annual productivity. These include annual plant yield, annual maximum yield, onset of 'greening-up' and senescence phases, length of the 'green' season, vegetation peak, and therefore, the periods when more or less food is available for herbivores. After verification with ground-truth
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URI: https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/154710
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01796.x
ISSN: 13541013
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Global Change Biology, Volumen 15, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1116-1126
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