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| Author: | Brown, D. G. Pijanowski, B. C. Duh, J. D. |
| Title: | Modeling the relationships between land use and land cover on private lands in Upper Midwest, USA |
| Journal: | Journal of Environmental Management
2000 : AUG, VOL. 59:4, p. 247-263 |
| Index terms: | Economic geography Land use Forest economics Urban sociology USA Markov chains |
| Freeterms: | Markov models Forest fragmentation |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper presents an approach to modeling land-cover change as a function of land-use change. The authors argue that, in order to model the link between socio-economic change and changes in forest cover in a region that is experiencing residential and recreational development and agricultural abondenment, land-use and land-cover change need to be presented as separate processes. In this study they test functional relationships between forest-cover transition probabilities, and land-use conditions and changes within sample sites. |
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