Characterizing woodland caribou habitat in sub-boreal and boreal forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 180, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 241-248

  Johnson, Chris J ^a,b   Alexander, Nancy D ^a   Wheate, Roger D ^a   Parker, Katherine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caribou; Landsat TM; Lichen; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HARVESTING; VEGETATION;

HABITATS;

FORESTRY;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT; HARVESTING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; UNGULATE; WOODLAND;

CANADA;

GULO GULO; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU;

EID: 0037931455     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00563-7     Document Type: Article

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