Habitat Condition Assessment System: a new way to assess the condition of natural habitats for terrestrial biodiversity across whole regions using remote sensing data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1050-1059

  Harwood, Tom D ^a   Donohue, Randall J ^a   Williams, Kristen J ^a   Ferrier, Simon ^a   McVicar, Tim R ^a   Newell, Graeme ^b   White, Matt ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

generalised dissimilarity modelling; habitat condition; principal components analysis; vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971282346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12579     Document Type: Article

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