Measuring boreal forest fragmentation after fire: Which configuration metrics are best?

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 189-195

  Wang, Xianli ^a   Hamann, Andreas ^a   Cumming, Steve G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Forest fire; Habitat abundance; Landscape fragmentation; Landscape pattern metrics

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT ABUNDANCE; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE PATTERN;

DEFORESTATION; FIRES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOREAL FOREST; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY;

DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; FORESTRY; FRAGMENTATION; PATTERNS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 80053221913     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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