Vegetation of the greater maya mountains, Belize

Systematics and Biodiversity

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-44

  Penn, Malcolm G ^a   Sutton, David A ^a   Monro, Alex ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belize; Chiquibul forest; Geographical Information System (GIS); Greater Maya Mountains; Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC); Maya Mountains; Micro meso and macro scales; Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Remote sensing; Scaling up; Tropical forest; Vegetation classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008834265     PISSN: 14772000     EISSN: 14780933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1477200004001318     Document Type: Article

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