Coupling past management practice and historic landscape change on John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-309

  Duncan, Brean W ^a   Boyle, Shannon ^a   Breininger, David R ^a   Schmalzer, Paul A ^a  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fire suppression; Flatwoods; Florida; GIS; GPS; Historic; Landcover; Landscape; Management; Remote sensing; Scrub

Indexed keywords

FIRE HISTORY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY;

FLORIDA; JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032796875     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008029831187     Document Type: Article

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