Monitoring park landscape dynamics through NPScape: Saguaro National Park

Park Science

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Monahan, William B ^a   Swann, Don E ^b   Andrew Hubbard, J ^c   Gross, John E ^d  

^a NPS Inventory and Monitoring Division   (United States)

^b Saguaro National Park   (United States)

^c Sonoran Desert Network   (United States)

^d Inventory and Monitoring Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation context; Conservation status; GIS; Housing; Human drivers; Human population; Inventory and monitoring; Land cover; Landscape dynamics; Landscape pattern; Natural systems; NPScape; Resource management; Roads; Saguaro National Park

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA;

EID: 84866371809     PISSN: 07359462     EISSN: 10909966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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