Trends and patterns of functional diversity and disturbances in semi-arid environments: opportunities for airborne and global lidar observations

Nayani Thanuja Ilangakoon1, Nancy F Glenn2, Hamid Dashti1, Fabian D Schneider3, Steven Hancock4, Lucas Spaete5 and Tristan Goulden6, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State Univ, Boise, ID, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Department of Natural Resources Minnesota, Duluth, MN, United States, (6)National Ecological Observatory Network, AOP, Boulder, CO, United States