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The Guadalupe Island Cypress Forest: On the Recovery track-ESRI UC2007 Paper
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rodríguez-Malagón, Marlenne A. Hinojosa-Corona, Alejandro Aguirre-Muñoz, Alfonso García-Gutiérrez, César |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | The introduction of goats in the 19th century to the Guadalupe Island seriously devastated its cypress forest. The island, located 260 km offshore the Baja California peninsula in the Pacific ocean, had a reduction of the forested area from 4,000 to 160 hectares. With the eradication of goats, the forest is no longer threatened, and its regeneration is already evident. New seedlings can be seen in patches in several parts within the forested area. With a QuickBird high resolution satellite image, an estimation of the remaining trees was performed segmenting NDVI images in combination with the average tree top areas measured in the field. The extent and percent of canopy cover of the three remaining patches was calculated. This is a base line study to measure in the near future the recovery of the cypress forest after the goat eradication program. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc07/papers/papers/pap_1960.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
