Historic land surveys present opportunities for reconstructing frontier settlement patterns in North America

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 203-213

  Tomscha, Stephanie A ^a   Gergel, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Floodplains; Frontier; General land office surveys; Historical ecology; Landscape position

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922104909     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0124-x     Document Type: Article

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