Recent landscape change at the ecoregion scale in Southern Québec (Canada), 1993-2001

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 164, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 631-647

  Jobin, Benoît ^a   Latendresse, Claudie ^a   Grenier, Marcelle ^a   Maisonneuve, Charles ^b   Sebbane, Aïssa ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Appalachian; Ecoregion; LULC; Qu bec; St. Lawrence Lowlands

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; APPALACHIANS; AS-SOILS; CORN PRODUCTION; DESCRIPTORS; ECOREGIONS; FARMING ACTIVITIES; FOREST COVER; HIGH QUALITY; LAND USE/LAND COVER; LANDSAT IMAGES; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; MAJOR CITIES; MONITORING PROGRAMS; PERENNIAL CROPS; PIG FARMING; RELATED VARIABLES; TRANSITION MATRICES;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

CROPS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST COVER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; TOPOGRAPHY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CANADA; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; QUEBEC;

APPALACHIANS; CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SAINT LAWRENCE LOWLANDS;

SUIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77952289729     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0918-5     Document Type: Article

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