Use and misuse of landscape indices

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 389-399

  Li, Harbin ^a   Wu, Jianguo ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Environ Sci Sch Life Sci A

Author keywords

Conceptual flaws; GIS and map data; Landscape pattern analysis; Pattern and process; Scale

Indexed keywords

GIS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAP; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042764181     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LAND.0000030441.15628.d6     Document Type: Article

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