Some metric indices for the assessment of land consolidation projects

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1390-1397

  Akkaya Aslan, S T ^a   Gundogdu, K S ^a   Arici, I ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Land consolidation; Metric indicator

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247258976     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2007.1390.1397     Document Type: Article

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