Impacts of transportation routes on landscape diversity: A comparison of different route types and their combined effects

Environmental Management

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 636-647

  Su, Shiliang ^a,b   Xiao, Rui ^b   Li, Delong ^a   Hu, YI'na ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Landscape diversity; Landscape patterns; Transportation routes; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; RAILROADS; ROADS AND STREETS;

BUFFER ANALYSIS; DIVERSITY INDEX; LANDSCAPE DIVERSITY; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; NEAREST NEIGHBOR DISTANCE; PATCH DENSITIES; URBANIZATION;

TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; RAILWAY; SHANNON DIVERSITY INDEX; SIMPSON DIVERSITY INDEX; SIMPSON EVENNESS INDEX; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; PROCEDURES; URBANIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; TRANSPORTATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84898538792     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0214-6     Document Type: Article

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