Leaf Area Index Variation for Crop, Pasture, and Tree in Response to Climatic Variation in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia

Zelalem K Tesemma; Yongping Wei; Andrew W Western; Murray C Peel

Journal article

Leaf Area Index Variation for Crop, Pasture, and Tree in Response to Climatic Variation in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia

Zelalem K Tesemma, Yongping Wei, Andrew W Western, Murray C Peel

JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY | AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0108.1

Abstract

Abstract Previous studies have reported relationships between mean annual climatic variables and mean annual leaf area index (LAI), but the seasonal and spatial variability of this relationship for different vegetation cover types in different climate zones have rarely been explored in Australia. The authors developed simple models using remotely sensed LAI data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and gridded climatic data from the Australian Water Availability Project. They were able to relate seasonal and annual LAI of three different land cover types (tree, pasture, and crop) with climatic variables for the period 2000–09 in the Goulburn–Broken ca..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC; Projects ARC LP100100546, ARC LP100100546, and ARC FT120100130), the Natural Science Foundation of China (Project 91125007), and the Commonwealth of Australia under the Australia China Science and Research Fund (Project ACSRF800). We thank the two anonymous reviewers for excellent and very constructive comments which helped us to improve the manuscript.