Measuring mosaic diversity based on land use map in the region of Madrid, Spain

J. Velázquez, J. Gutiérrez, A. Hernando, A. García-Abril, M.A. Martín and P. Irastorza

Land Use Policy, 2018, vol. 71, issue C, 329-334

Abstract: Ecological sustainable landscapes require that their ecological processes can be sustained over time. Spatial heterogeneity is recognized as a very influent factor in biological diversity, but there is still a need to evaluate how this heterogeneity changes with scale and how pattern or processes change with the definition of the detail level, so this is the aim of this study.

Keywords: Diversity index; Fractal dimension; Hierarchical land use map; Landscape diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.12.007

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