Land-use drivers of forest fragmentation vary with spatial scale

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1215-1224

  Cattarino, Lorenzo ^a,b   Mcalpine, Clive A ^a   Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Australia; Fractal geometry; Land sharing; Land sparing; Land use change; Scale dependent patterns; SLATS; Thresholds; Vegetation clearing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908481905     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12187     Document Type: Article

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