Suburban forest dynamics: succession, phenology, and urbanization of a Piedmont landscape
Investigator
Joe Sexton, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, USA
E-mail: jos2(at)duke.edu
Abstract
Joe Sexton is creating spatiotemporal maps of the Duke Forest’s seral state over the past 20 years to study the ecological drivers of succession in Piedmont forests. Sexton is using GPS-enabled mobile GIS to locate preselected forest vegetation plots in the Durham and Korstian Divisions and to record data directly into GIS data files. These data will be used to calibrate and validate remote sensing models that allow seral states to be retrieved from a 20-year archive of satellite imagery.
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