Complexity at advancing ecotones and frontiers

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 619-632

  Malanson, George P ^a   Zeng, Yu ^a   Walsh, Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOTONE; FRONTIER REGION; LANDSAT; MODEL; OPTIMIZATION;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646832566     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a37340     Document Type: Article

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