When are two landscape pattern indices significantly different?

Journal of Geographical Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 331-351

  Remmel, T K ^a   Csillag, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Distribution; Simulation; Spatial pattern; Spatial process; Stationary; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842659187     PISSN: 14355930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10109-003-0116-x     Document Type: Article

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