Landscape pattern gradient on tree canopy in the central city of Guangzhou, China

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 5910-5917

  Zhu, Yaojun ^a   Wang, Cheng ^a   Jia, Baoquan ^a   Su, Juan ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Forestry and Landscape   (China)

Author keywords

Guangzhou; Landscape pattern gradient; Moving window; Tree canopy; Urban forest

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AIR QUALITY; BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRAIN SIZE; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROGRAPH; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROCLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESOLUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN FORESTRY; VISUALIZATION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 80054887692     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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