Calculating landscape diversity with information-theory based indices: A GRASS GIS solution

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue , 2013, Pages 82-93

  Rocchini, Duccio ^a   Delucchi, Luca ^a   Bacaro, Giovanni ^b   Cavallini, Paolo ^c   Feilhauer, Hannes ^d   Foody, Giles M ^e   He, Kate S ^f   Nagendra, Harini ^g,h   Porta, Claudio ^i,j   Ricotta, Carlo ^k   Schmidtlein, Sebastian ^d   Spano, Lucio Davide ^i,j   Wegmann, Martin ^l   Neteler, Markus ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c Faunalia ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^k SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity; Diversity metrics; GRASS GIS; Landscape ecology; R.diversity; Spectral variability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GIS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84884928525     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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