Hot spots of perforated forest in the eastern United States

Environmental Management

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 483-492

  Riitters, Kurt H ^a   Coulston, John W ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological assessment; Forest fragmentation; Scan statistic; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WETLANDS;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOREST EDGE; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; PERFORATED FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TREES; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21244474878     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0220-1     Document Type: Article

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