An ontology for landscapes

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 272-279

  Lepczyk, Christopher A ^a   Lortie, Christopher J ^b   Anderson, Laurel J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecoinformatics; Landscape ecology; Ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 48949115259     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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