The modifiable areal unit problem and implications for landscape ecology

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Landscape Ecology

• Publication date

  1996-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/BF02447512
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