Sensitivity of landscape measurements to changing grain size for fine-scale design and management

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-53

  Corry, Robert C ^a   Lafortezza, Raffaele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost surface models; Iowa; Italy; Pattern metrics; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247233179     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-006-0015-7     Document Type: Article

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