Altitude of the forest upper limit in the Mexican Neovolcanic Axis, a climate reference for high-mountain environment in Mexico

• Published in: Complutum
• Main Authors: Soto Molina, Víctor Hugo, Pech Canché, Juan Manuel, Alanís Méndez, José Luís
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2021
• Subjects: Climatic variability; forest upper limit; high-mountain climatology; normalized difference vegetation index; principal components analysis; Análisis de componentes principales; climatología de alta montaña; índice de vegetación de diferencia normalizada; límite superior de bosque; variabilidad climática; Alta; Límite; Arctic
• Online Access: https://estudiosgeograficos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeograficos/article/view/1047; https://doi.org/10.3989/estgeogr.202075.075

The upper limit of continuous and discontinuous forest in mountains higher than 4000 meters above sea level in Mexico was identified. This study was based on the normalized difference vegetation index and by means of principal component analysis. For the first case, it was found that in each slope t...