Viewpoint: Delineating ecological sites

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 546-549

  Creque, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Bassett, Scott D ^c   West, Neil E ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Harvard University School of Design ^*  (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological site; GIS; Landscape ecology; Landscape vegetation pattern; Pinyon juniper woodland; Range site; Sagebrush semidesert

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; GIS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RANGELAND;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; JUNIPERUS; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 0032699662     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003622     Document Type: Article

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