Issues in measuring landscape fragmentation

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-37

  Davidson, Carlos ^a,b,c,d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c US Forest Service

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Fragmentation; Isolation; Landscape indices; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031821313     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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