Reading the landscape: Temporal and spatial changes in a patterned peatland

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 475-493

  Nungesser, M K ^a  

^a Applied Sciences Bureau   (United States)

Author keywords

Everglades; Hierarchical clustering; Historical analysis; Landscape ecology; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Patterned peatland; Restoration ecology; Wetland restoration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEEP WATER; DRAINAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HYDROLOGY; LANDSCAPE; LINEARITY; PEATLAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82355181101     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-011-9229-z     Document Type: Article

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