Land ownership and landscape structure: A spatial analysis of sixty-six Oregon (USA) Coast Range watersheds

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 685-697

  Stanfield, Brooks J ^a   Bliss, John C ^a   Spies, Thomas A ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest habitat; Land ownership; Land ownership concentration; Land tenure; Landscape structure; Oregon Coast Range; Watershed

Indexed keywords

FOREST COVER; GIS; LAND TENURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036971475     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022977614403     Document Type: Article

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