Urban permeation of landscapes and sprawl per capita: New measures of urban sprawl

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 427-441

  Jaeger, Jochen A G ^a   Bertiller, René ^b   Schwick, Christian ^c   Cavens, Duncan ^d   Kienast, Felix ^e  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b Dipl Forstingenieur ETH   (Switzerland)

^c Dipl Geogr   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clumping; Dispersion; Landscape indices; Landscape structure; Scale; Spatial heterogeneity; Suitability criteria; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

CLUMPING; LANDSCAPE INDICES; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SCALE; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SUITABILITY CRITERIA; SWITZERLAND;

MONITORING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DISPERSIONS;

HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MONITORING SYSTEM; POPULATION GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70449531383     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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