Predicting leaf area index from scaling principles: Corroboration and consequences

Agriculture & Biology

• leaf area index 87%
• gross primary productivity 27%
• normalized difference vegetation index 23%
• remote sensing 20%
• eddy covariance 17%
• canopy 14%
• photosynthetically active radiation 13%
• deciduous forests 13%
• trajectories 12%
• advanced very high resolution radiometer 10%
• hardwood forests 7%
• transmittance 7%
• meteorological data 6%
• forest ecosystems 6%
• phenology 5%
• growing season 4%
• prediction 4%
• leaves 2%
• cells 1%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Forests 100%
• Radiation 31%
• Ecosystem 23%