Modeling landscape vegetation pattern in response to historic land-use: A hypothesis-driven approach for the North Carolina Piedmont, USA

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 689-702

  Taverna, Kristin ^a,c   Urban, Dean L ^b   McDonald, Robert I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation   (United States)

Author keywords

CART; Classification tree; Generalized linear models; GLM; Logistic regression; Vegetation modeling

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LAND USE CHANGE; VEGETATION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 26244436874     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-004-5652-3     Document Type: Article

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