Using landscape metrics and topographic analysis to examine forest management in a mixed forest, Hokkaido, Japan: Guidelines for management interventions and evaluation of cover changes

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1208-1218

  Sano, Makoto ^a   Miyamoto, Asako ^a   Furuya, Naoyuki ^b   Kogi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

GIS; Landscape metrics; Selective cutting; Topographic pattern

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANNING;

COVER TYPES; DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS; DOMINANT SPECIES; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST STANDS; FOREST TYPES; GIS; GIS SOFTWARE; HOKKAIDO; LAND COVER (LC); LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES; PHOTO INTERPRETATION; SELECTIVE CUTTING; TERRAIN MODELLING; TOPOGRAPHIC PATTERN;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DIGITIZATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; MIXED FOREST; PHOTOGRAPH; TOPOGRAPHY;

ECOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; LAND USE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANNING; SELECTIVE CUTTING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

EID: 58649098162     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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