National assessment of forest fragmentation in India: Landscape indices as measures of the effects of fragmentation and forest cover change

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 453-464

  Reddy, C Sudhakar ^a   Sreelekshmi, S ^a   Jha, C S ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Biogeographic zone; Deforestation; Fragmentation; India; Landscape indices; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHIC ZONES; FOREST FRAGMENTATIONS; FRAGMENTATION; HYBRID CLASSIFICATION; INDIA; LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION; LANDSCAPE INDEX; NATIONAL ASSESSMENT;

ARID REGIONS; REMOTE SENSING;

DEFORESTATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; DEFORESTATION; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE; NATIONAL PLANNING; PATCH SIZE;

DEFORESTATION; INDIA; REMOTE SENSING;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 84886075770     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.09.064     Document Type: Article

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