Scale matters: Indicators of ecological health along the urban-rural interface near Columbus, Georgia

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 224-233

  Styers, Diane M ^a   Chappelka, Arthur H ^a   Marzen, Luke J ^a   Somers, Greg L ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological assessment; Georgia; Landscape indicator; Remote sensing; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLUMBUS; DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; ECOLOGICAL DATA; ECOLOGICAL HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; ENVIRONMENTALLY IMPACTED; FIELD PLOT; FIELD STUDIES; FOREST CONDITIONS; FOREST COVER; FOREST LAND; FOREST PATCHES; GEORGIA; HIGHER RESOLUTION; INDICATOR VARIABLES; LANDSCAPE INDICATOR; LANDSCAPE INDICATORS; POPULATION DENSITIES; REGIONAL AREAS; REGIONAL SCALE; ROAD DENSITY; SITE SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT; SITE-SPECIFIC; SPATIAL ACCURACY; SPATIAL AREA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN-RURAL; URBANIZATION;

AGRICULTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH; REMOTE SENSING; ROADS AND STREETS; RURAL AREAS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; REGIONAL PATTERN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBANIZATION;

COLUMBUS [OHIO]; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449094125     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.04.018     Document Type: Article

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