Do coarse resolution U.S. presettlement land survey records adequately represent the spatial pattern of individual tree species?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1003-1017

  Wang, Yi Chen ^a,b   Larsen, Chris P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Forest landscape; Geostatistics; GLO survey; Interpolation; Minnesota; Presettlement vegetation; Scale; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; LAND MANAGEMENT; RESOLUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TREE;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749385408     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-6221-0     Document Type: Article

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