Quantitative characterization of the shape of forest areas;Quantitative Charakterisierung von Waldflächenformen

Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 30-40

  Traub, B ^a   Kleinn, Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Fragmentation indices; Moving window techniques; Quantitative methods; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031500251     PISSN: 00025852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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