Forest fragmentation in Massachusetts, USA: a town-level assessment using Morphological spatial pattern analysis and affinity propagation
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Clark Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, 01610, USA; Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, USA; Department of Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada; Geography and Urban Studies Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, 19122, USA; Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University, Worcester 01610, USA; U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Troy, 12180, USA; U.S. Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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