What's scale got to do with it? Models for urban tree Canopy

Journal of Urban Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Locke, Dexter H ^a   Landry, Shawn M ^b   Grove, J Morgan ^c   Chowdhury, Rinku Roy ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixed effects models; Multi level modeling; Tree canopy; Urban ecology; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042261034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jue/juw006     Document Type: Article

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