Analysis and conservation implications of landscape change in the Wisconsin River floodplain, USA

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 416-431

  Freeman, Ross E ^a,b   Stanley, Emily H ^a   Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Northwest Office of American Rivers   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Floodplain forests; Forest connectivity; Land cover change; Management scenarios; Orthophotography; Riparian buffer; Wisconsin River, USA

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION; FLOODPLAIN; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN RIVER;

RIPARIA;

EID: 0037701017     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0416:AACIOL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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