Morphological characteristics of shrub coppice dunes in desert grasslands of southern New Mexico derived from scanning LIDAR

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• coppice 100%
• dune 69%
• shrub 67%
• desert 61%
• grassland 60%
• shrubland 42%
• laser 41%
• roughness 32%
• dune formation 28%
• honey 24%
• vegetation 22%
• stream channel 21%
• land 20%
• rangeland 20%
• sandy soil 18%
• vegetation type 18%
• footprint 17%
• aerodynamics 17%
• livestock 17%
• soil erosion 16%
• grazing 16%
• topography 13%
• nutrient 11%
• remote sensing 11%
• transition 11%
• sampling 10%
• calculation 9%
• energy 8%
• test 7%
• distribution 6%
• method 4%

Agriculture & Biology

• dunes 84%
• deserts 70%
• grasslands 63%
• shrubs 63%
• lasers 42%
• shrublands 31%
• roughness length 27%
• Prosopis glandulosa 22%
• vegetation 21%
• grazing lands 20%
• Prosopis 19%
• stream channels 19%
• aerodynamics 18%
• roughness 17%
• soil erosion 17%
• remote sensing 17%
• rangelands 16%
• vegetation types 16%
• sandy soils 15%
• topography 15%
• livestock 12%
• nutrients 8%
• energy 8%
• methodology 7%
• testing 5%
• sampling 5%