Forest fragmentation, structure, and age characteristics as a legacy of forest management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1938-1949

  Wulder, Michael A ^a   White, Joanne C ^a   Andrew, Margaret E ^a   Seitz, Nicole E ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^b  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earth Observation for Sustainable Development of Forests (EOSD); Forest age structure; Fragmentation; Landsat; Landscape composition; Partial canonical correspondence analysis (CCA)

Indexed keywords

EARTH OBSERVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF FORESTS (EOSD); FOREST AGE STRUCTURE; FRAGMENTATION; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION; PARTIAL CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS (CCA);

FORESTRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OBSERVATORIES; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRATEGIC PLANNING; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATERSHEDS;

LANDFORMS;

AGE STRUCTURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCH SIZE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; FRAGMENTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PLANNING; PLANTS; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; WATER SHEDS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

EID: 70349101235     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.07.041     Document Type: Article

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