Spatial heterogeneity and domain of scale on the Skallingen salt marsh, Denmark

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-104

  Kim, Daehyun ^a   Cairns, David M ^a   Bartholdy, Jesper ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Lacunarity; Landscape metrics; Ripley's k function; Spatial complexity; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; HETEROGENEITY; PROBABILITY; SALTMARSH; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEXTURE; VASCULAR PLANT;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKALLINGEN PENINSULA; SYDDANMARK;

HALIMIONE; HALIMIONE PORTULACOIDES; LIMONIUM VULGARE; PLANTAGO MARITIMA; PUCCINELLIA MARITIMA; SALICORNIA HERBACEA; TRACHEOPHYTA; TRIGLOCHIN MARITIMUM;

EID: 67651097859     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2009.10649598     Document Type: Article

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