How is shrub cover related to soil moisture and patch geometry in the fragmented landscape of the northern Negev desert?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-116

  Svoray, Tal ^a   Mazor, Shira ^a   Bar, Pua ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aerial photographs; Digital elevation models (DEM); Fuzzy logic; Geographical information systems (GIS); Patch scale

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; PATCH DYNAMICS; PATCH SIZE; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUBLAND; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 33846446476     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-9004-3     Document Type: Article

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