Comparing resource representations and choosing scale in heterogeneous landscapes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-227

  Holland, E P ^a   Aegerter, J N ^a   Dytham, C ^b  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Lacunarity; Landscape pattern; Modelling; Resource representation; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; HETEROGENEITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 59449099377     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9300-1     Document Type: Article

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