Detecting forest landscape boundary between Mountain Birch and evergreen coniferous forest in the northern slope of Changbai Mountain

Journal of Environmental Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 182-186

  Chang, Yu ^a   Bu, Ren cang ^a   Hu, Yuan man ^a   Xu, Chong gang ^a   Wang, Qing li ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Changbai Mountain; Forest landscape boundary; PCA and MSWA

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FOREST LANDSCAPES;

FORESTRY;

BOUNDARY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIRCH; CHINA; CONIFER; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELECOMMUNICATION; TREE;

ALTITUDE; BETULA; CHINA; CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TREES;

CHINA;

BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 0038137259     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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