Recent publications:

Chen, Charles, Frank, Thomas, & Long, Steven. Is a short sharp shock equivalent to long-term punishment? Characterizing the spatial pattern of acute and chronic ozone damage to leaves via chlorophyll fluorescence imaging, submitted to Plant, Cell and Environment.

Frank, T. D., Di Girolamo, Geegan, S., 2007. The spatial and temporal variability of aerosol optical depths in the Mojave Desert of southern California, Remote Sensing of Environment, Special Issue on Multi-angle Imaging SspectroRadiometer, Vol 107, Issues 1-2, 54-64. or PDF

Frank, T. D. and Tweddale, S. A., 2006. The effect of spatial resolution on measurement of vegetation cover in three Mojave Desert shrub communities, Journal of Arid Environments, Special Issue on the Changing Mojave Desert, DOI10:1016/j.jaridenv.2006.09.020 Vol 67 Supplement 1 88-99.

Tweddale, S. A., and Frank, T. D., 2006. A procedure to extrapolate vegetation cover estimates over large arid and semi-arid regions using multiple spatial resolution imagery, GeoCarta, Vol 21, No 1, 13-20.

Frank, T. D., Tweddale, S. A., and Lenschow, S. J., 2005. Non-destructive estimation of canopy gap fractions and shrub canopy volume of dominant shrub species in the Mojave Desert, Journal of Terramechanics, Special Issue: Assessing the impact of military vehicle traffic on natural areas, A. Andersen, A. Palazzo, P. Ayers, J. Fermi, S. Shoop, eds). Vol 42/3-4, 231-244.

Other recent publications

Aldea, M., Frank, T., and DeLucia, E., 2006. A method for quantitative analysis of spatially variable physiological processes across leaf surfaces, Photosynthesis Research, 90:161-172.

Aldea, M., Hamilton, J., Resti, J., Zangerl, A., Berenbaum, M., Frank. T., DeLucia, E., 2006. Comparison of photosynthetic damage from arthoprod herbivory and pathogen infection understory hardwood saplings. Oecologia, DOI 10.1007/s00442-006-0444-x

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