Designing a graph-based approach to landscape ecological assessment of linear infrastructures

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Volumn 42, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-17

  Girardet, Xavier ^a   Foltête, Jean Christophe ^a   Clauzel, Céline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Environmental impact assessment; Fragmentation; Graph theory; Linear infrastructure; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS (EIA); FRAGMENTATION; GRAPH-BASED REPRESENTATIONS; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; LINEAR INFRASTRUCTURE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; GRAPH THEORY;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; INFRASTRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE; LINEARITY;

FRANCE; FRANCHE COMTE;

EID: 84877896641     PISSN: 01959255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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