Fragmentation regimes of Canada's forests

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 288-300

  Wulder, Michael A ^a   White, Joanne C ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^b  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

boreal; Canada; drivers; forest; fragmentation; Landsat; pattern

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BOREAL FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRAGMENTATION; LANDSAT; NATURAL HAZARD;

CANADA;

EID: 80052298705     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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