Measuring urban habitat fragmentation: An example from the Black Country, UK

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 643-658

  Young, Christopher H ^a   Jarvis, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Contiguity; Fragmentation; Habitat quality; Land use; Landscape; Urban habitats; West Midlands

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0035699766     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013108005347     Document Type: Article

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