Quantifying ecological mosaic connectivity and hemeroby with a new topoecological index

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 623-631

  Acosta, Alicia ^a,b   Blasi, Carlo ^a,c   Carranza, Maria Laura ^a,b   Ricotta, Carlo ^a,c   Stanisci, Angela ^a,b  

^a University of Molise ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coastal vegetation zonation; Graph theory; Landscape connectivity; Potential natural vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONE; CONNECTIVITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MODEL; VEGETATION;

CIRCEO NATIONAL PARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LATINA; LAZIO; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 25844459525     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2003/0033-0623     Document Type: Review

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