Quantifying landscape pattern and connectivity in a Mediterranean coastal settlement: The case of the Urla district, Turkey

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 143-155

  Coskun Hepcan, Cigdem ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Landscape connectivity; Landscape metrics; Landscape pattern; Turkey; Urla

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; TURKEY; URLA;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION;

URBAN PLANNING;

ASTER; COASTAL ZONE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBURBANIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASHORE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CITY PLANNING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; PLANTS; TURKEY; URBANIZATION;

IZMIR [TURKEY]; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TURKEY; URLA;

EID: 84871994525     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2539-7     Document Type: Article

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