Targeting sites for habitat creation: An investigation into alternative scenarios

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-28

  Lee, John T ^a   Thompson, Stewart ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GIS; Spatially explicit targeting; UK Habitat Action Plan; Woodland expansion

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PLANNING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT EXPANSION; HABITAT RESERVES; LARGEST PATCH INDEX (LPI); MEAN PATCH SIZE (MPS); PATCH DENSITY (PD);

URBAN PLANNING;

CONSERVATION; HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; WOODLAND;

CHILTERN HILLS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

FAGUS;

EID: 11144349230     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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