BIOPHYSICAL REMOTE SENSING AND TERRESTRIAL CO2 EXCHANGE AT CAPE BOUNTY, MELVILLE ISLAND

• Main Author: GREGORY, FIONA MARIANNE
• Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: IKONOS; Net Ecosystem Exchange; Polar Desert; Tundra; Arctic; Sedge Meadow; NDVI; Remote Sensing; CO2; Cape Bounty; polar desert; Melville Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6953

Cape Bounty, Melville Island is a partially vegetated High Arctic landscape with three main plant communities: polar semi-desert (47% of the study area), mesic tundra (31%) , and wet sedge meadows (7%). The objective of this research was to relate biophysical measurements of soil, vegetation, and CO...