Leaf area index for measurement of canopy cover, which is important for me to work on for carry out research.
Hello Shailender, you can find most of the protocols in "New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide" by Pérez-Harguindeguy et al. 2013. Australian Journal of Botany 61, 167–234.
The paper that Veronica suggested to you is the latest one in the topic, very comprehensive in terms of protocols.
There are many resources online about the topic. Take a look in this one:
http://prometheuswiki.publish.csiro.au/tiki-custom_home.php
You probably already received this or similar but here is a site:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Hemispherical_photography_laicalc_manual_1995.pdf
In my lab we have also used a photographic method where we quantified the amount of canopy vs open sky as viewed from digital images taken viewing upwards along the stream thalweg.
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