On the role of spatial stochastic models in understanding landscape indices in ecology

Oikos

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 203-212

  Fortin, M J ^a   Boots, B ^b   Csillag, F ^a   Remmel, T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 0038000648     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12447.x     Document Type: Review

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