Landscape variability of vegetation change across the forest to tundra transition of central Canada

• Main Author: Bonney, Mitchell
• Other Authors: Geography and Planning, Treitz, Paul, Danby, Ryan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: NDVI; Landsat; Treeline; Canada; Vegetation productivity; Random Forest; Boreal forest; Tundra; Bulk vegetation volume; Greening; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Landscape variability; Forest-tundra ecotone; Time-series; Remote sensing; Arctic Ocean; Yellowknife; North Slave Region
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/22675

Widespread vegetation productivity increases in tundra ecosystems and stagnation, or even productivity decreases, in boreal forest ecosystems have been detected from coarse-scale remote sensing observations over the last few decades. However, finer-scale Landsat studies have shown that these changes...