Past And Predicted Future Changes In The Land Cover Of The Upper Mississippi River Floodplain, Usa

River Research and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 608-618

  De Jager, N R ^a   Rohweder, J J ^a   Nelson, J C ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Flooding; Hierarchical cluster analysis; Landscape composition; Markov model; River restoration

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GIS; HABITAT RESTORATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MARKOV CHAIN; RIVER SYSTEM;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878920889     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1615     Document Type: Article

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