Landscapes as continuous entities: Forest disturbance and recovery in the Albertine Rift landscape

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 877-890

  Hartter, Joel ^a   Ryan, Sadie J ^b   Southworth, Jane ^c   Chapman, Colin A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuous analyses; Forest fragments; Kibale National Park; Land cover change; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Reforestation; Regrowth

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOGGING (TIMBER); NATIONAL PARK; NDVI; POPULATION DENSITY; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; REGROWTH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; KIBALE NATIONAL PARK; UGANDA; WESTERN PROVINCE [UGANDA]; WESTERN RIFT;

EID: 79958296917     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9616-0     Document Type: Article

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