Vanishing landscape of the "classic" Karst: Changed landscape identity and projections for the future

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 132, Issue , 2014, Pages 148-158

  Kaligarič, Mitja ^a   Ivajnšič, Danijel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

GIS; Grasslands; Land cover change; Landscape identity; MLP; Regrowth

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MARKOV CHAINS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

GRASSLAND HABITAT; GRASSLANDS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSCAPE IDENTITIES; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MARKOV CHAIN METHOD; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; REGROWTH;

FORESTRY;

GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; KARST; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; REGROWTH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

SLOVENIA;

EID: 84907482798     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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