Evaluation of five landscape-level metrics for measuring the effects of urbanization on landscape structure: the case of Tucson, Arizona, USA

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 308-313

  DiBari, John N ^a  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal; Landscape structure; Metric; Rank size distribution; Scaling; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; METROPOLITAN AREAS; RANK SIZE DISTRIBUTION; URBANIZATION;

URBAN PLANNING;

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PATCH SIZE; URBANIZATION;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; TUCSON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846611447     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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