Landscape frontiers, geography frontiers: Lessons to be learned

Professional Geographer

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 383-396

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Complexity; Ecotone; GIScience; Self organization

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ECOTONE; FRONTIER REGION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SELF ORGANIZATION; TREELINE;

AMAZONIA; ECUADOR; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750114083     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9272.2006.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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