Spatial analysis of landscapes: Concepts and statistics

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1975-1987

  Wagner, Helene H ^a   Fortin, Marie Josée ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Landscape metrics; Multiscale ordination; Multivariate analysis; Spatial analysis; Spatial regression; Stationarity

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 23644449120     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0914     Document Type: Review

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