Biodiversity and ecological forest-cover domains in boreal landscapes

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 665-678

  Reunanen, Pasi ^a   Fall, Andrew ^b   Nikula, Ari ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Habitat capability; Habitat subdivision; SELES; Spatial pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; FOREST COVER; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCHINESS; PEATLAND; PERCOLATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

FINLAND;

EID: 76449121739     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9726-z     Document Type: Article

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