Source/sink patterns of disturbance and cross-scale mismatches in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes

Ecology and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Zaccarelli, Nicola ^a   Petrosillo, Irene ^a   Zurlini, Giovanni ^a   Riitters, Kurt Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b Northeastern Forest Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance mismatches; Disturbance source sink; Multiscale disturbance patterns; Panarchy; Social ecological landscapes

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DATA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PUGLIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 50149102632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-02416-130126     Document Type: Article

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