Spatial variability of landscape pattern change following a ponderosa pine wildfire in northeastern New Mexico, USA

Physical Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 410-429

  Hayes, James ^a   Robeson, Scott ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST FIRE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCH SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70450248746     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.30.5.410     Document Type: Article

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