Managing landscape heterogeneity in different socio-ecological contexts: contrasting cases from central Loess Plateau of China and southern Finland

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 463-475

  Lü, Yihe ^a   Sun, Feixiang ^a   Wang, Jianglei ^a   Zeng, Yuan ^b   Holmberg, Maria ^c   Böttcher, Kristin ^c   Vanhala, Pekka ^c   Fu, Bojie ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Clustering analysis; Land cover; Landscape management; Landscape metrics; Landscape transition; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925482691     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0129-5     Document Type: Article

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