Identification of de facto protected areas in boreal Canada

Biological Conservation

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 97-107

  Andrew, Margaret E ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^b  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest fragmentation; Frontier forests; Landsat; Landscape configuration; Maximum entropy (Maxent); MODIS; Wilderness

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BOREAL FOREST; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FRONTIER REGION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MODIS; PROTECTED AREA; SURROGATE METHOD; WILDERNESS AREA;

CANADA;

EID: 84857457119     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.11.029     Document Type: Article

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