90 Years of forest cover change in an urbanizing watershed: Spatial and temporal dynamics

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 645-659

  Zhou, Weiqi ^a   Huang, Ganlin ^a   Pickett, Steward T A ^b   Cadenasso, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltimore; Change detection; Forest fragmentation; Gradient analysis; Patch dynamics; Transition analysis; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870892239     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9589-z     Document Type: Article

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