Use of simulated and real data to identify heterogeneity domains in scale-divergent forest landscapes

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2490-2500

  Diaz Varela, Emilio Rafael ^a   Marey Pérez, Manuel Francisco ^a   Álvarez Álvarez, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Landscape heterogeneity; Landscape metrics; Modified Random Clusters; Moving window analysis; Scale; Shannon Wiener index

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE METRICS; MODIFIED RANDOM CLUSTERS; MOVING WINDOW ANALYSIS; SCALE; SHANNON-WIENER INDEX;

WINDOWS;

PLANNING;

DIVERSITY INDEX; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349751942     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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