Factors related to spatial patterns of rural land fragmentation in Texas

Environmental Management

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-244

  Kjelland, Michael E ^a   Kreuter, Urs P ^a   Clendenin, George A ^b   Wilkins, R Neal ^a   Wu, X Ben ^a   Afanador, Edith Gonzalez ^a   Grant, William E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation easements; Land fragmentation; Landowner cooperatives; Non agricultural value; Spatial analysis; State and Transition model

Indexed keywords

LAND FRAGMENTATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL AREAS; WATER SUPPLY;

LAND USE;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FARM SIZE; FRAGMENTATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDOWNER; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROECOSYSTEM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND SPREADING; LAND USE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; STATE AND TRANSITION MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; TEXAS; WATER SUPPLY;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547130061     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0291-7     Document Type: Review

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