Quantifying micro-environmental variation in tropical rainforest understory at landscape scale by combining airborne LiDAR scanning and a sensor network

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  2017

• Venue

  Annals of Forest Science

• Publication date

  2017-04-14

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s13595-017-0628-z
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