Detecting the effect of disturbance on habitat diversity and land cover change in a post-mining area using GIS

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-32

  Antwi, Effah Kwabena ^a   Krawczynski, Rene ^a   Wiegleb, Gerhard ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Habitat patch diversity; Heterogeneity; Land cover change; Landscape; Richness

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAKES; VEGETATION;

FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT/PATCH DIVERSITY; HETEROGENEITY; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; RICHNESS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GIS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MINING;

EID: 45049086517     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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