Quantifying spatiotemporal pattern of urban greenspace: new insights from high resolution data

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1165-1173

  Qian, Yuguo ^a   Zhou, Weiqi ^a   Yu, Wenjuan ^a   Pickett, Steward T A ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Beijing; Ecosystem services; Scale; Urban landscape; Urban sustainability; Within city dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GREENSPACE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84934791992     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0195-3     Document Type: Article

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