Contribution of roads to forest fragmentation in the Rocky Mountains;La contribucion de los caminos a la fragmentacion de bosques en las Montanas Rocallosas

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1098-1106

  Reed, Rebecca A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST FRAGMENTATION; GIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; ROAD;

USA, WYOMING, MEDICINE BOW-ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST;

EID: 0030462973     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10041098.x     Document Type: Article

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