Categorical, class-focused map patterns: Characterization and comparison

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1587-1599

  Remmel, Tarmo K ^a   Fortin, Marie Josée ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Binary maps; Comparison; Expectation; Fragmentation; Random chance; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH; SIMULATION;

EID: 84884816101     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9905-x     Document Type: Article

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