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The Satoyama Index: A biodiversity indicator for agricultural landscapes

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2011
Abstract Agricultural development to meet rapidly growing demands for food and biofuel and the abandonment of traditional land use have had major impacts on biodiversity. Habitat diversity is one of the most important factors influencing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.
Taku Kadoya, Izumi Washitani
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Soil Landscapes, an Index to Multiple use

Journal of Forestry, 1966
Abstract In order to develop good multiple-use plans for any area, it is necessary to know the potential of the land for various uses. This paper presents how soil landscapes may serve as a starting point or as an index to multiple-use planning. Examples are presented at the project or compartmental level and for a ranger district on
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Application of the topographic position index to heterogeneous landscapes

Geomorphology, 2013
Topographic position index (TPI) is an algorithm increasingly used to measure topographic slope positions and to automate landform classifications. We applied TPI to a geoarchaeological research project in northwestern Belgium but its use led to erroneous landform classifications in this heterogeneous landscape.
Jeroen De Reu, Jean Bourgeois, Machteld Bats, Ann Zwertvaegher, Vanessa Gelorini, Philippe De Smedt, Wei Chu, Marc Antrop, Philippe De Maeyer, Peter Finke, Marc Van Meirvenne, Jacques Verniers, Philippe Crombé   +12 more
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Integrating circuit theory and landscape pattern index to identify and optimize ecological networks: a case study of the Sichuan Basin, China

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022
Kexin Huang, Li Peng, Xiaohui Wang, W. Deng   +3 more
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A study on the impact of Visible Green Index and vegetation structures on brain wave change in residential landscape

, 2021
Huaizhen Zhu, Fan Yang, Zhiyi Bao, Xinge Nan   +3 more
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Quantitative relationships between soil landscape index and classification grain

Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2018
Yue Pan, Xiaosong Lu, Dongsheng Yu, Jingjing Huang, Xin Sun, Zhichao Xu   +5 more
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Spatial road disturbance index (SPROADI) for conservation planning: a novel landscape index, demonstrated for the State of Brandenburg, Germany

Landscape Ecology, 2013
L. Freudenberger, P. Hobson, Slaven Rupic, G. Pe’er, M. Schluck, Julia Sauermann, S. Kreft, N. Selva, P. Ibisch   +8 more
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Landscape Tension Index

2015
Brian Lee, James Adams, Stephen Austin
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An Index Method in Sustainable Landscape Design Evaluation

2021
Parks are important components of the built environment in the settlements and should be designed and improved to protect the functions in the long term. The aim of this study is to develop a method that quantitates the sustainability levels of park designs.
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Indexing Irishness in Linguistic Landscaping

2021
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