Kaleidoscoping landscapes, shifting perspectives

Professional Geographer

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 436-447

  Young, Kenneth R ^a   Aspinall, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Landscape dynamics; Landscape ecology; Scale

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

EID: 33750119446     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9272.2006.00580.x     Document Type: Article

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