Influence of urban form on landscape pattern and connectivity in metropolitan regions: a comparative case study of Phoenix, AZ, USA, and Izmir, Turkey

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6301-6318

  Park, Sohyun ^a   Hepcan, Çiğdem C ^b   Hepcan, Şerif ^b   Cook, Edward A ^c  

^a NEXUS Environmental Design Center   (South Korea)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Izmir; Landscape metrics; Landscape pattern; Phoenix; Urban form

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

CONNECTIVITY; IZMIR; LANDSCAPE METRICS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; PHOENIX; URBAN FORM;

URBAN GROWTH;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; METROPOLITAN AREA; REGIONAL PATTERN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; TURKEY; URBANIZATION;

ARIZONA; IZMIR [IZMIR (PRV)]; IZMIR [TURKEY]; PHOENIX; TURKEY; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; BIODIVERSITY; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; TURKEY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84921682241     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3855-x     Document Type: Article

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