Assessing the effect of scale on the ability of landscape structure metrics to discriminate landscape types in Mediterranean forest districts;Evaluación del efecto de la escala en la capacidad de los índices de estructura del paisaje para discriminar tipos de paisaje en comarcas forestales mediterráneas

Forest Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-140

  Garcia Feced C ^a   Saura, S ^a   Elena Rossello R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest planning; Grain size; Metric correlation; Minimum mapped unit; Spatial resolution; Variability analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860124462     PISSN: 21715068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/fs/2010192-01309     Document Type: Article

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