Quantifying landscape structure: A review of landscape indices and their application to forested landscapes

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 418-445

  Haines Young, Roy ^a   Chopping, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest design; Landscape ecology; Landscape indices; Landscape structure; Sustainable forestry

Indexed keywords

FOREST; FOREST DESIGN; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE INDEX; LANDSCAPE PATTERN;

UK;

EID: 0030422578     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030913339602000403     Document Type: Article

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