LORACS: JAVA software for modeling landscape connectivity and matrix permeability

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 388-392

  Pinto, Naiara ^a   Keitt, Timothy H ^b,c   Wainright, Michael ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c MetaVR Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; DATA SET; GIS; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAP; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EID: 84860645515     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07168.x     Document Type: Article

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