Measuring landscape connectivity in a urban area for biological conservation

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 605-613

  Yu, Deyong ^a,b   Liu, Yupeng ^a   Xun, Bin ^a   Shao, Hongbo ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Conservation; Graph theory; Network; Sustainable development; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GRAPHICAL METHOD; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURE CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; SHENZHEN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85027953550     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201200448     Document Type: Article

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