Estimating the ecotone width in patchy ecotones using a sigmoid wave approach

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-104

  Hufkens, K ^a   Ceulemans, R ^a   Scheunders, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Gradient analysis; Landscape metric; Patchy ecotones; Simulation; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; PATCHINESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 40949121894     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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