Patterns in Residential Urban Forest Structure Along a Synthetic Urbanization Gradient

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 749-763

  Berland, Adam ^a   Manson, Steven M ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

residential land; urban forest structure; urbanization gradient

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; NEIGHBORHOOD; URBAN AREA; URBAN FORESTRY; URBANIZATION;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879529528     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.782598     Document Type: Article

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