Watershed analysis of forest fragmentation by clearcuts and roads in a Wyoming forest

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 149-165

  Tinker, Daniel B ^a   Resor, Catherine A C ^a   Beauvais, Gary P ^a   Kipfmueller, Kurt F ^a   Fernandes, Charles I ^a   Baker, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn National Forest; Clearcutting; Disturbance; Forest fragmentation; Landscape pattern; Logdepole pine; Logging roads; Watershed analysis

Indexed keywords

CLEARCUTTING; FOREST; GIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; WATERSHED;

USA, WYOMING, BIGHORN NATIONAL FOREST;

EID: 0031825491     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007919023983     Document Type: Article

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