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
Hansraj Gautam, Evangeline Arulmalar, Mihir R Kulkami, TNC 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