Spatial and Temporal Morphological Change in Canadian Boreal Forests

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dc.contributor.advisorRemmel, Tarmo
dc.creatorMoghaddam, Hamidreza
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-27T16:42:13Z
dc.date.available2018-08-27T16:42:13Z
dc.date.copyright2018-05-09
dc.date.issued2018-08-27
dc.date.updated2018-08-27T16:42:13Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMSc - Master of Science
dc.description.abstractQuantification and comparison of the boreal forest cover over vast extents and long periods can be challenging but holds the potential to characterize disturbance regimes and how their characteristics differ in space and time. The study of morphology and the use of join count statistics in this research enabled assessing the composition and configuration of the spatial patterns. Bootstrap resampling produced empirical distributions that facilitated the comparisons of the join count analysis outcomes among the spatial and temporal groupings. In order to statistically test the effect of spatial and temporal groupings, ANOVA and Levenes tests were used to compare means and variances of join count outcomes for each of the morphological classes, respectively. This study concludes that the spatial and temporal morphology of forest disturbance pattern within the boreal biome of Canada differ through time and among provinces and/or territories and identifies the main cases where the differences are significant.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35019
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectRemote sensing
dc.subject.keywordsForest fire
dc.subject.keywordsLandscape pattern
dc.subject.keywordsMorphology
dc.subject.keywordsBoreal forests
dc.subject.keywordsJoin count
dc.subject.keywordsBootstrapping
dc.titleSpatial and Temporal Morphological Change in Canadian Boreal Forests
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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