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Cardille, J.A., Turner, M.G. (2002). Understanding Landscape Metrics I. In: Gergel, S.E., Turner, M.G. (eds) Learning Landscape Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21613-8_7
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