Effects of land-cover change on spatial pattern of forest communities in the Southern Appalachian Mountains (USA)

Agriculture & Biology

• Appalachian region 96%
• forest communities 95%
• hardwood 78%
• Quercus 19%
• Pinus 17%
• land use change 16%
• forest maps 13%
• land use 13%
• landscape ecology 11%
• forest habitats 8%
• forest types 8%
• ecological function 8%
• habitat fragmentation 7%
• indigenous species 5%
• biodiversity 5%
• habitats 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• cove 64%
• land cover 61%
• mountain 49%
• forest cover 35%
• oak 25%
• pine 21%
• effect 17%
• land use change 15%
• fragmentation 15%
• land use 11%
• habitat 10%
• landscape ecology 10%
• reforestation 9%
• native species 8%
• ecosystem function 8%
• biodiversity 6%
• loss 4%

Social Sciences

• land use 23%
• building density 21%
• habitat 13%
• fragmentation 11%
• biodiversity 6%
• projection 5%
• ecology 5%
• present 3%
• time 2%