Presettlement landscape heterogeneity: Evaluating grain of resolution using General Land Office Survey data

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 363-381

  Delcourt, Hazel R ^a   Delcourt, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

General Land Office Surveys; Great Lakes forests; Landscape ecology; Mixed conifer northern hardwoods forest; Restoration ecology

Indexed keywords

FOREST; GENERAL LAND OFFICE SURVEY; GENERAL LAND OFFICE SURVEY DATA; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY; PRESETTLEMENT VEGETATION; VEGETATION COVER;

USA, MICHIGAN, MACKINAC COUNTY;

EID: 0030404226     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02447523     Document Type: Review

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