Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization: The case of the two fastest growing metropolitan regions in the United States

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Wu, Jianguo ^a,b,c   Jenerette, G Darrel ^d   Buyantuyev, Alexander ^a,c   Redman, Charles L ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use change; Landscape metrics; Las Vegas; Phoenix; Scale; Spatial pattern analysis; Spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79451473787     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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