Modeling landscape structure response across a gradient of land cover intensity

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 233-246

  Frazier, Amy E ^a   Wang, Le ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Land cover intensity; Landscape metrics; Saltcedar; Scalograms; Sub pixel classification; Threshold

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HETEROGENEITY; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MAP; PATCHINESS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84873714858     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9839-8     Document Type: Article

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