Towards a core set of landscape metrics for biodiversity assessments: A case study from Dadia National Park, Greece

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 502-514

  Schindler, Stefan ^a,b   Poirazidis, Kostas ^a   Wrbka, Thomas ^b  

^a Dadia Project   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Fragmentation; Fragstats; Heterogeneity; Landscape pattern; Landscape structure

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LANDSCAPE PREDICTORS; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MAPPING METHOD; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

DADIA NATIONAL PARK; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; EVROS; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 40649103285     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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