Modification of the effective mesh size for measuring landscape fragmentation to solve the boundary problem

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 447-459

  Moser, Brigitte ^a   Jaeger, Jochen A G ^b   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^a,c   Tasser, Erich ^a   Eiselt, Beatrice ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cross boundary connections procedure; Cutting out procedure; Environmental indicators; Environmental monitoring; Landscape indices; Landscape metrics; Scale; South Tyrol; Spatial extent; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND DEGRADATION; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PATCHINESS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING BIAS;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; TYROL;

EID: 33847335997     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-9023-0     Document Type: Article

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