The use of adjacency analysis for quantifying landscape changes

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 384-389

  Smiraglia, D ^a   Zavattero, L ^b   Ricotta, C ^a   Blasi, C ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boundary dynamics; Hierarchical landscape classification; Land cover change; Multitemporal analysis; Patch adjacency; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 36248973663     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500701627752     Document Type: Article

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