Universal rules for fragmentation of land by humans

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1013-1022

  Fialkowski, Marcin ^a   Bitner, Agnieszka ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Land fragmentation; Land parcels; Morphology; Patterns; Scaling laws; Urbanization process

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; RURAL AREA; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 54349085999     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9268-x     Document Type: Article

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