Using landscape structure to develop quantitative baselines for protected area monitoring

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 82-95

  Mairota, Paola ^a   Cafarelli, Barbara ^b   Boccaccio, Luigi ^a   Leronni, Vincenzo ^a   Labadessa, Rocco ^a   Kosmidou, Vasiliki ^c   Nagendra, Harini ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^c INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

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

Author keywords

Biodiversity indicators; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape heterogeneity; Protected areas monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MONITORING; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION; PIXELS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTEGRATED INFORMATIONS; LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITIES; MORPHOLOGICAL SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSES (MSPA); PROTECTED AREAS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NATURE CONSERVATION; PROTECTED AREA; SOFTWARE;

ITALY;

EID: 84893417463     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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