Surface metrics: An alternative to patch metrics for the quantification of landscape structure

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 433-450

  McGarigal, Kevin ^a   Tagil, Sermin ^b   Cushman, Samuel A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BALIKESIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c USDA Forest Service Forestry Science Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

Landscape gradient model; Landscape heterogeneity; Landscape metrics; Landscape pattern; Surface patterns

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCH DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 60449083966     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9327-y     Document Type: Article

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