Distance to nature - A new biodiversity relevant environmental indicator set at the landscape level

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 208-216

  Rüdisser, Johannes ^a   Tasser, Erich ^b   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Austria; GIS; Hemeroby; Land use; Landscape indicator; Naturalness

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONES; ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; AUSTRIA; BIODIVERSITY CRISIS; CLIMATIC ZONE; COMPOSITE INDEX; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; GEOGRAPHIC RANGES; GROWING DEMAND; HABITAT CHANGE; HEMEROBY; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDICATOR MAPS; INDICATOR VALUES; INPUT DATAS; LANDSCAPE INDICATORS; LANDSCAPE LEVEL; NATURAL HABITAT; NATURALNESS; REGIONAL MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL SCALE;

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; RATING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ALTITUDE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GIS; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; RESOLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 81755178965     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.09.027     Document Type: Article

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