Agriculture intensification and forest fragmentation in the St. Lawrence valley, Québec, Canada

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 495-507

  Bélanger, Luc ^a   Grenier, Marcelle ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human population; Satelite imagery

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; FOREST COVER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LANDSAT; POPULATION DENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CANADA;

EID: 0036972043     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021443929548     Document Type: Article

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