Percentage canopy cover - Using Landsat imagery to delineate habitat for Myanmar's endangered Eld's deer (Cervus eldi)

Animal Conservation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 289-296

  Koy, Kevin ^a,b,c   McShea, William J ^a,d   Leimgruber, Peter ^a   Haack, Barry N ^b   Aung, Myint ^e  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LANDSAT; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ASIA; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELDI;

EID: 19444380949     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943005002209     Document Type: Article

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