Ranking European regions as providers of structural riparian corridors for conservation and management purposes

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 477-483

  Clerici, Nicola ^a   Vogt, Peter ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ecological corridors; Morphological spatial pattern analysis; Riparian zones; Structural connectivity

Indexed keywords

ECOMORPHOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GIS; NATURE CONSERVATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84872806667     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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