期刊论文

Pontius, Robert Gilmore, Jr.

英文

Landscape Ecology

0921-2973

2017

32

12

2249-2260

10.1007/s10980-017-0584-x

Acknowledgements The United States’ National Science Foundation (NSF) supported this work via the Long Term Ecological Research network via Grant OCE-1637630 for Plum Island Ecosystems. Key Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education of China and Recruitment Program of High-end Foreign Experts of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China funded this work via Grant 17A067 and Grant GWD201543000243. The Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation supplied additional funding via Grant 24546 entitled ‘‘Mapping marsh dynamics in coastal ecosystems’’. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the funders. Jinwei Dong, Wenhui Kuang and anonymous reviewers supplied constructive feedback that helped to improve this paper.

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Context: Scientists frequently describe temporal change among land categories by reporting the single land use dynamic degree and the comprehensive land use dynamic degree (CLUDD). The original intention of CLUDD was to compute the annual change percentage, which is the size of annual change expressed as a percentage of the size of the spatial extent. However, the literature’s mathematical descriptions of CLUDD have been unclear, thus readers have imagined various ways to compute CLUDD. Objectives: Our manuscript clarifies the confusion and of...