A multi-scale assessment of human and environmental constraints on forest land cover change on the Oregon (USA) coast range

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 631-646

  Wimberly, Michael C ^a   Ohmann, Janet L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Environmental heterogeneity; Forest fragmentation; Forest management; Habitat loss; Human impacts; Land ownership; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRAGMENTATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; OWNERSHIP; WATERSHED;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 7744229725     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LAND.0000042904.42355.f3     Document Type: Article

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