Modelling vegetation patterns using natural and anthropogenic influence factors: Preliminary experience with a GIS based model applied to an Alpine area

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 113, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 225-237

  Tappeiner, Ulrike ^a,b   Tasser, Erich ^b   Tappeiner, Gottfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Weggensteinstraße 12a I 39100   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alps; Discriminant analysis; GIS model; Land use changes; Mountain landscape

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GIS; MODELING; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ITALY;

EID: 0032476763     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(98)00145-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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