Overwhelming presence of non-food vegetation undermines the reliability of NDVI as a surrogate of forage abundance for a large herbivore in a tropical forest habitat
H. Gautam, E. Arulmalar, M. Kulkarni, T. N. C. Vidya
This study shows NDVI is not reliable for estimating forage abundance for Asian elephants in tropical forests due to non-food vegetation dominance and canopy cover effects.
bioRxiv · Jun 27, 2018 · PreprintEcology