Quantifying landscape spatial pattern: What is the state of the art?

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-156

  Gustafson, Eric J ^a  

^a NORTH CENTRAL RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocovariation; Geostatistics; Index; Indices; Landscape ecology; Patchiness; Scale; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial models; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644402177     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900011     Document Type: Review

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