Configuration dynamics of boreal forest landscapes under recent fire and harvesting regimes in western Canada

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1419-1432

  Wang, Xianli ^a   Cumming, Steve G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Forest fire; Forest harvesting; Fragmentation; Landscape configuration; Landscape dynamics; Landscape pattern metrics

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 77956971685     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9517-7     Document Type: Article

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