Evaluating anthropogenic risk of grassland and forest habitat degradation using land-cover data

Landscape Online

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Riitters, Kurt ^a   Wickham, James ^b   Wade, Timothy ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge effect; Geographic information system; Island biogeography theory; Land cover map; Landscape mosaic; Model; Patch isolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954423505     PISSN: 18651542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3097/LO.200913     Document Type: Article

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