Research Article

Relation of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Sensitive Reflectance Ratios to Carbon Flux Measurements of Montanne Grassland and Norway Spruce Forest Ecosystems in the Temperate Zone

Table 1

Vegetation indices (VIs) used in this study. 𝑅 𝜆 is reflectance at a wavelength λ in nm, [L.UE: light use efficiency; FS: steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence; Chla+b total chlorophyll content].

Vegetation indexDesigned as indicator ofReference

PRI = ( 𝑅 5 3 2 . 2 𝑅 5 7 0 . 8 ) ( 𝑅 5 3 2 . 2 + 𝑅 5 7 0 . 8 ) LUE, Zeaxanthin content,[23]
R686.7/R630.0FS, early stress[50]
R740.0/R800.0FS, early stress[37]