Landscape fragmentation in Mediterranean Europe: A comparative approach

Land Use Policy

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages 83-94

  De Montis, Andrea ^a,c   Martín, Belén ^b   Ortega, Emilio ^b   Ledda, Antonio ^a,b,c   Serra, Vittorio ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Connectivity Index; Fragmentation indices; Infrastructural Fragmentation Index; Landscape fragmentation; Urban Fragmentation Index

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL PLANNING; URBAN PLANNING;

ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85014031595     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.02.028     Document Type: Article

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