Quantifying bias in pattern indices extracted from spatially offset landscape samples

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2090-2096

  Castilla, Guillermo ^a   Linke, Julia ^a   McLane, Adam J ^a   McDermid, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 80055061713     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x11-123     Document Type: Note

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