A preliminary assessment of Montréal process indicators of forest fragmentation for the United States

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 91, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 257-276

  Riitters, Kurt H ^a   Wickham, James D ^b   Coulston, John W ^c  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Land cover; Montr al process; National assessment; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

LANDSCAPE;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

DEFORESTATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND COVER; MONTREAL PROTOCOL; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; METRIC SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; STATISTICS; TREES; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0942298936     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000009240.65355.92     Document Type: Article

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