Keywords
Oak -- Florida, Oak -- Vertical distribution -- Florida, Optical radar -- Florida
Abstract
Vertical structure, the top-to-bottom arrangement of aboveground vegetation, is an important component of forest and shrubland ecosystems. For many decades, ecologists have used foliage height profiles and other measures of vertical structure to identify discrete stages in post-disturbance succession and to quantify the heterogeneity of vegetation. Such studies have, however, required resource-intensive field surveys and have been limited to relatively small spatial extents (e.g.,
Notes
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Graduation Date
2010
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Weishampel, John
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Biology
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0003254
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003254
Language
English
Release Date
August 2010
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Sciences, Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Angelo, James J., "Characterizing The Vertical Structure And Structural Diversity Of Florida Oak Scrub Vegetation Using Discrete-return Lidar" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1553.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1553