Land-cover change: Quantification metrics for perforation using 2-D gap features

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 161-169

  Bogaert, J ^a,b   Eysenrode, D Salvador Van ^a   Van Hecke, P ^a   Impens, I ^a   Ceulemans, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gap; Land cover transformation; Landscape ecology; Perforation; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CANOPY GAP; LAND COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RAIN; TREES;

EID: 0034871894     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011993109258     Document Type: Article

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