Adapting lacunarity techniques for gradient-based analyses of landscape surfaces

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 229-238

  Hoechstetter, Sebastian ^a   Walz, Ulrich ^a   Thinh, Nguyen Xuan ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecological gradients; Lacunarity analysis; Landform; Landscape structure; Pattern and scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960734948     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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