The impact of landscape and adjacent land cover upon linear boundary features

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 255-260

  Cherrill, Andrew ^a,b   McClean, Colin ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Drystone walls; Edge effects; Land cover; Linear habitats

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY FEATURES; DRYSTONE WALLS; LANDCOVER PATTERN; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY; UPLAND LANDSCAPE;

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EID: 0031419364     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007981507141     Document Type: Article

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