Quantifying environmental limiting factors on tree cover using geospatial data.

Environmental limiting factors (ELFs) are the thresholds that determine the maximum or minimum biological response for a given suite of environmental conditions. We asked the following questions: 1) Can we detect ELFs on percent tree cover across the eastern slopes of the Lake Tahoe Basin, NV? 2) Ho...

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Main Authors: Jonathan A Greenberg, Maria J Santos, Solomon Z Dobrowski, Vern C Vanderbilt, Susan L Ustin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4333833?pdf=render