Land-use change: Incorporating the frequency, sequence, time span, and magnitude of changes into ecological research

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 241-249

  Watson, Simon J ^a   Luck, Gary W ^a   Spooner, Peter G ^a   Watson, David M ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; TURNOVER; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GENERALIST; MAGNITUDE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RESEARCH WORK; TEMPORAL PERIOD; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 84903166737     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/130097     Document Type: Review

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