Linking ecosystem services, urban form and green space configuration using multivariate landscape metric analysis

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 557-573

  Grafius, Darren R ^a   Corstanje, Ron ^a   Harris, Jim A ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Fragstats; Landscape metrics; Landscape structure; Multivariate; United Kingdom; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042193034     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-018-0618-z     Document Type: Article

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