Scale problems in reporting landscape pattern at the regional scale

被引：303

作者：

ONeill, RV

Hunsaker, CT

Timmins, SP

Jackson, BL

Jones, KB

Riitters, KH

Wickham, JD

机构：

[1] Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge

[2] Analysas Corporation, Oak Ridge, TN

[3] Computing Applications Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Las Vegas, NV

[4] Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, NV

[5] Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, TN

[6] Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV

来源：

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY | 1996年 / 11卷 / 03期

关键词：

grain; extent; index;

D O I：

10.1007/BF02447515

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

Remotely sensed data for Southeastern United States (Standard Federal Region 4) are used to examine the scale problems involved in reporting landscape pattern for a large, heterogeneous region. Frequency distributions of landscape indices illustrate problems associated with the grain or resolution of the data. Grain should be 2 to 5 times smaller than the spatial features of interest. The analyses also reveal that the indices are sensitive to the calculation scale, i.e., the unit area or extent over which the index is computed. This ''sample area'' must be 2 to 5 times larger than landscape patches to avoid bias in calculating the indices.

引用

页码：169 / 180

页数：12

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