Consideration of grain and extent in landscape studies of terrestrial vertebrate ecology

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 201-217

  Mayer, Audrey L ^a,b   Cameron, Guy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Extent; Grain; Landscape ecology; Landscape studies; Mammals; Scale; Scale choice; Terrestrial vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

LANDSCAPES; TAXONOMIC GROUPS;

URBAN PLANNING;

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAMMAL; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VERTEBRATE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0442298874     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(03)00057-4     Document Type: Article

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