Local indicators for categorical data: Impacts of scaling decisions

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-28

  Long, Jed A ^a   Nelson, Trisalyn A ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Composition; Configuration; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Fragmentation; Mountain pine beetle; Spatial analysis; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DATA SET; FOREST COVER; GIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOGGING (TIMBER); PARAMETERIZATION; PARASITE INFESTATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 77749279908     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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