A map-based method for exploring responses to different levels of grazing pressure at the landscape scale

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 177-181

  Wehn, Sølvi ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

BioScene; CCA; GIS; Grazing pressure; Landscape change; Logit regression

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC SPECIES; GIS; GRAZING PRESSURE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 56449124408     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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