Investigating spatiotemporal patterns of landscape diversity in response to urbanization

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 93, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 151-162

  Yeh, Chia Tsung ^a   Huang, Shu Li ^b  

^a Executive Yuan of the Taiwan Government   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Landscape diversity; Landscape metrics; Landscape spatial patterns; Urban region

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; LANDSCAPE DIVERSITY; LANDSCAPE METRICS; METROPOLITAN REGIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; URBAN REGIONS;

URBAN GROWTH;

HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 70350572766     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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