Spatial and semantic dimensions of landscape heterogeneity

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 573-590

  Ahlqvist, Ola ^a   Shortridge, Ashton ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Auto correlation; Categorical map; Contagion; Edge contrast; Heterogeneity; Landscape pattern indices; Patchiness; Semantic distance; Variography

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AUTOCORRELATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCHINESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TYPOLOGY; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 77952743866     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9435-8     Document Type: Article

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