Identifying ecoregion boundaries

Environmental Management

Volumn 34, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Bailey, Robert G ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Ecoregions; Ecosystem geography; Mapping; North America; United States; World

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MAPS;

BOUNDRIES DRAWING; ECOREGIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BOUNDARY; ECOREGION; MAPPING;

BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CLIMATE; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOLOGY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; REVIEW; SYNECOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WATERSHED; ZONATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 19944419798     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0163-6     Document Type: Review

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