Review of Available Products of Leaf Area Index and Their Suitability over the Formerly Soviet Central Asia

Table 2

Some of previous ground-based estimates of leaf area index in arid and semiarid zones.

Country/region	Biome	LAI	Reference
USA/Arizona	Desert/shrubland	0.93 ± 0.45	Whittaker and Niering [27]
USA/New Mexico	Grassland	0.75 ± 0.1	Asner et al. [29]
	Shrubland	1.58 ± 0.3
Senegal/Sahel	Grassland	0.15 – 2.5	Fensholt et al. [19]
Australia	Shrubland	0.36 ± 0.07	Hill et al. [30]
	Grassland	0.50 ± 0.2
	Woodland	1.89 ± 0.64
Kazakhstan	Grassland	0.22–0.90	Propastin and Kappas [26]
	Shrubland	0.10–0.70
Worldwide	Grassland	0.29–5.47	Scurlock et al. [25]
	Shrubland	0.4–4.5
	Cropland	0.2–8.7