Publications

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PowerPoint Presentations

• Productivity and Plant Species Richness in North and South Carolina, USA. Jennifer Costanza, Dahl Winters, Todd Jobe, Matt Simon. Presented at the 2007 ESA Conference.
• Precipitation and NPP in the Carolinas 2001-2003. Aaron Moody, UNC-Chapel Hill Dept. of Geography, Ecology Curriculum, 20 November 2004.
• Spatial Distributions of Chaparral Shrubs: Interactions Between Life Histories, Functional Traits, and Drought Severity. Ross K. Meentemeyer, Department of Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill

Papers

• Xiao, J. & Moody, A. 2005. A comparison of methods for estimating fractional vegetation cover across a large region of central New Mexico, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment. In Press.
• McDonald, R., McKnight, M., Weiss, D., Selig, E., O'Conner, M., Violin, C., & Moody, A. 2005. Species compositional similiarity in ecoregions: Do ecoregion boundaries represent zones of high species turnover? Biological Conservation 126: 24-40.
• Xiao, J. & Moody, A. 2005. Geographic distribution of global greening trends and their climatic correlates: 1982 to 1998. International Journal of Remote Sensing 26(11): 2371-2390.
• Moody, A. & Katz, D.B. 2004. Artificial intelligence in the study of mountain landscapes. In: M. P. Bishop & J. F. Shroder, Jr. (Eds.) Geographic Information Science (GIScience) and Mountain Geomorphology. Springer Verlag-Praxis Scientific Publishing Ltd., In Press.
• Xiao, J. & Moody, A. 2004. Trends in vegetation activity and their climatic correlates: China 1982 to 1998. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25(24): 5669-5689.
• Xiao, J. & Moody, A. 2004. Photosynthetic activity of U.S. biomes: responses to the spatial variability and seasonality of precipitation and temperature. Global Change Biology 10(4): 437-451.
• Xiao, J. & Moody, A. 2004. Photosynthetic activity of U.S. biomes: Response to spatial and temporal variability in temperature and precipitation. Global Change Biology Online Publication: 02/20/04.
• Xiao, J., Li, J., & Moody, A. 2003. A detail-preserving and flexible adaptive filter for speckle suppression in SAR imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24: 2451-2465.
• Meentemeyer, R.K. & Moody, A. 2002. Distribution of plant life-history types in California chaparral: The role of topographically determined drought severity. Journal of Vegetation Science 13: 67-78.
• Frizzelle, B. G. & Moody, A. 2001. Mapping continuous distributions of land cover: A comparison of maximum likelihood estimation and artificial neural networks. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 67(6): 693-705.
• Meentemeyer, R. K., Moody, A., & Franklin, J. 2001. Landscape-scale patterns of shrub species abundance in California chaparral: The role of topographically mediated resource gradients. Plant Ecology 156(1): 19-41.
• Moody, A. & Johnson, D.M. 2001. Land-surface phenologies using the discrete Fourier transform. Remote Sensing of Environment 75(3): 305-323.
• Moody, A. & Meentemeyer, R.K. 2001. Environmental factors influencing spatial patterns of woody plant diversity in chaparral, Santa Ynez Mountains, California. Journal of Vegetation Science 12(1): 41-52.
• Meentemeyer, R. K. & Moody, A. 2000. Rapid sampling of plant species composition for assessing vegetation patterns in rugged terrain. Landscape Ecology 15(8): 697-711.
• Meentemeyer, R. K. & Moody, A. 2000. Automated mapping of alignment between topography and geologic bedding planes. Computers & Geosciences 26(7): 815-829.
• Moody, A. 2000. Analysis of plant species diversity in response to island characteristics on the Channel Islands, California. Journal of Biogeography 27(3): 711-724.
• Moody, A. & Jones, J.A. 2000. Soil response to canopy position and feral pig disturbance beneath Quercus agrifolia on Santa Cruz Island, California. Applied Soil Ecology 14(3): 269-281.