Quantitative changes of forest landscapes over the last century across Italy

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1011-1019

  Camarretta, Nicolò ^a,b   Puletti, Nicola ^a   Chiavetta, Ugo ^a   Corona, Piermaria ^a  

^a Research Centre for Forestry and Wood   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forest fragmentation; forest patchiness; land cover change; landscape metrics; spatial pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85035762844     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2017.1407374     Document Type: Article

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