Terraced fields and Mediterranean landscape structure: An analytical case study from Antikythera, Greece

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1303-1314

  Bevan, Andrew ^a   Conolly, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demography; Erosion; Logistic regression; Monte Carlo simulation; RUSLE; Spatial autocorrelation; USPED

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RUSLE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; USPED;

AUTOCORRELATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INVESTMENTS; LANDFORMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRACE; TERRAIN; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

ANTIKYTHERA; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 79952068360     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.12.016     Document Type: Article

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