Forest fragmentation and forest management: A plea for empirical data

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 686-689

  D'Eon, Robert G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b C21 ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical data; Forest fragmentation; Landscape spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; RESEARCH;

EMPIRICAL DATA;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

NEOPLEA;

EID: 0036766783     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc78686-5     Document Type: Review

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