METALAND: Characterizing spatial patterns and statistical context of landscape metrics

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 983-988

  Cardille, Jeffrey ^a   Turner, Monica ^a   Clayton, Murray ^a   Gergel, Sarah ^b   Price, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distribution; Landscape ecology; Region; Significance; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644509177     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0983:MCSPAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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