Determination of ecological significance based on geostatistical assessment: A case study from the Slovak Natura 2000 protected area

Central European Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-42

  Klaučo, Michal ^a   Gregorová, Bohuslava ^a   Stankov, Uglješa ^b   Marković, Vladimir ^b   Lemenkova, Polina ^c  

^a MATEJ BEL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ecological significance of landscapes; landscape metrics; nature and landscape conservation; quantification and interpretation of landscape metrics

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LANDSCAPES; LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION; LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS; LANDSCAPE METRICS; NUMERICAL VALUES; RARE AND ENDANGERED SPECIES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOSTATISTICS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PATCH SIZE; PROTECTED AREA; RARE SPECIES; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

KOSICKY; SLOVAK PARADISE NATIONAL PARK; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 84875177296     PISSN: 20819900     EISSN: 18961517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13533-012-0120-0     Document Type: Article

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