Characterizing fragmentation of the collective forests in southern China from multitemporal Landsat imagery: A case study from Kecheng district of Zhejiang province

Applied Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1026-1035

  Li, Mingshi ^a   Zhu, Zhiliang ^b   Vogelmann, James E ^c   Xu, Da ^d   Wen, Weisong ^d   Liu, Anxing ^d  

^a NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^d Zhejiang Provincial Center for Forest Resources Monitoring   (China)

Author keywords

China; Collective forests; Forest fragmentation; Fragmentation model; Landsat TM ETM+

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NATURE CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 79952570258     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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