Effects of changing landscape pattern and U. S. G. S. land cover data variability on ecoregion discrimination across a forest-agriculture gradient

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 379-396

  Mladenoff, David J ^a   Niemi, Gerald J ^b   White, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecoregions; Ecotone; Forest ecosystems; Grain; Habitat; Land cover data; Landsat TM; LUDA; Monitoring; Principal components analysis; Resolution; Scale

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA;

AGRICULTURE; ECOREGION DISCRIMINATION; FOREST; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE PATTERN;

EID: 0031390799     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007974800297     Document Type: Article

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