Measuring landscape configuration with normalized metrics

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 723-736

  Wang, Xianli ^a   Cumming, Steven G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Forest harvesting; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape configuration metrics; Landscape dynamics; Landscape pattern metrics; Mean nearest neighbor distance; Mean shape index; Normalization total core area

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886389611     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9601-7     Document Type: Article

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