Determining patch size

African Journal of Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 440-442

  Meyer, Katrin M ^a   Wiegand, Kerstin ^a   Ward, David ^b   Moustakas, Aristides ^a,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COEXISTENCE; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; MORPHOMETRY; PATCH DYNAMICS; PATCH SIZE; ROOT SYSTEM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 50849100427     PISSN: 01416707     EISSN: 13652028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00834.x     Document Type: Article

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