01754nas a2200145   4500008004100000245012100041210006900162260002500231300001300256520116100269653002201430100001701452700001801469856012101487       1996                        eng d00aSeasonal NDVI trajectories in response to disturbance: toward a spectral-temporal mixing model for tallgrass prairie0 aSeasonal NDVI trajectories in response to disturbance toward a s  aPiscataway, NJbIEEE  a215 -2173 aNatural and anthropogenic disturbance in tallgrass prairie communities can induce changes in plant species composition, including shifts in abundance of C3 vs. C4 lifeforms. The asynchronous seasonalities in greenness that C3 and C4 species exhibit should enable monitoring of their relative abundance using sensor derived vegetation indices, such as NDVI. The authors used close-range measurements made over 22 experimental. Plots at the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA) to evaluate seasonal trajectories in canopy greenness as a function of C3/C4 ratio. NDVI data were collected from each plot at approximately ten day intervals throughout the 1995 growing season. Temporal trajectories were used to develop discriminant functions to model relative C3/C4 abundances. The discriminant model yielded values of Kendall's τb and Cohen's κ statistic of 0.794 and 0.781, indicating strong agreement between classes and an overall classification significantly better than random assignment. Results suggest the possibility of applying spectral-temporal mixture models derived from close-range sensing to larger scale monitoring of tallgrass prairie10atallgrass prairie1 aGoodin, D.G.1 aHenebry, G.M.  uhttp://knz.lternet.edu/content/seasonal-ndvi-trajectories-response-disturbance-toward-spectral-temporal-mixing-model