• openAccess   Reply to Townsend et al.: Decoupling contributions from canopy structure and leaf optics is critical for remote sensing leaf biochemistry (Letter) 

      Latorre Carmona, Pedro; Knyazikhin, Yuri; Lewis, Philip; Disney, Mathias I.; Stenberg, Pauline; Mõttus, Matti; Rautiainen, Miina; Kaufmann, Robert K.; Marshak, Alexander; Schull, Mitchell A.; Vanderbilt, Vern; Davis, Anthony B.; Baret, Frédéric; Jacquemoud, Stéphane; Lyapustin, Alexei; Yang, Yan; Myneni, Ranga B. National Academy of Sciences (2013)
      Townsend et al. (1) agree that we explain the observed relationship (2) between foliar nitrogen (%N) and near-infrared (NIR) canopy reflectance is largely due to structure - i.e., structural variation due to fraction of ...