Remotely sensed canopy water content as a predictor for tree mortality

Date
Wednesday April 11, 2018
Time:
3:30am - 5:00pm
Location
McCone Hall
About this event

The rate of drought-induced tree mortality has been observed to increase across the world, and is expected to continue to increase dramatically as temperatures (and evaporative demand) rise. Increased drought stress, however, will not lead to mortality everywhere, and in situ monitoring of this heterogeneous process is cumbersome and expensive. Predicting where droughts will lead to tree...