Landscape ecology: What is the state of the science?

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2005, Pages 319-344

  Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fragmentation; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial pattern; Succession

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

EID: 30344451426     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.36.102003.152614     Document Type: Review

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