Quantifying the effect of grazing and shrub-clearing on small scale spatial pattern of vegetation

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 327-339

  Bar Massada, Avi ^a   Gabay, Ofri ^b   Perevolotsky, Avi ^c   Carmel, Yohay ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Fragmentation; Grazing; Landscape metrics; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BALLOON OBSERVATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLEARCUTTING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FRAGMENTATION; GRAZING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHRUB; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION MAPPING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 41049085766     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9189-0     Document Type: Article

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