Landscape dynamics in the wildland-urban interface

Urban-Rural Interfaces: Linking People and Nature

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 16-28

  Zipperer, Wayne C ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest fragmentation; Habitat connectivity; Infectious disease; Landscape dynamics; Wildland urban interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101463218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/2012.urban-rural.c2     Document Type: Chapter

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