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International Journal of Remote Sensing Volume 30, 2009 - Issue 12
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Mapping forest patches and scattered trees from SPOT images and testing their ecological importance for woodland birds in a fragmented agricultural landscape

N. Levin Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus Campus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel; Centre for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science (CRSSIS), School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, St. Lucia Campus, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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C. McAlpine Centre for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science (CRSSIS), School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, St. Lucia Campus, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
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S. Phinn Centre for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science (CRSSIS), School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, St. Lucia Campus, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
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B. Price Centre for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science (CRSSIS), School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, St. Lucia Campus, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
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D. Pullar Centre for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science (CRSSIS), School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, St. Lucia Campus, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
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R. P. Kavanagh Science and Research Division, Department of Primary Industries, PO Box 100, Beecroft, NSW 2119, Australia
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B. S. Law Science and Research Division, Department of Primary Industries, PO Box 100, Beecroft, NSW 2119, Australia
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Pages 3147-3169 | Received 07 Apr 2008, Accepted 05 Aug 2008, Published online: 29 Mar 2010

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Tamilis Rocha Silva, João Carlos Pena, Felipe Martello, Giovana Maranhão Bettiol, Edson Eyji Sano & Daniel Luis Mascia Vieira. (2021) Not only exotic grasslands: The scattered trees in cultivated pastures of the Brazilian Cerrado. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 314, pages 107422.
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Nathan Thomas, Priscilla Baltezar, David Lagomasino, Atticus Stovall, Zaheer Iqbal & Lola Fatoyinbo. (2021) Trees outside forests are an underestimated resource in a country with low forest cover. Scientific Reports 11:1.
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