Learning Landscape Ecology A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques

Learning Landscape Ecology A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques / edited by Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner.

This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies i...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gergel, Sarah E. (Editor), Turner, Monica G. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:2nd ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Landscape ecology.
Regional planning.
Urban planning.
Ecology .
Environmental monitoring.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Advice for Instructors
  • Introduction to Remote Sensing
  • Historical Aerial Photography for Landscape Analysis
  • Citizen Science for Assessing Landscape Change
  • Understanding Landscape Metrics
  • Scale Detection with Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms (with R option)
  • Characterizing Categorical Map Patterns Using Neutral Landscape Models (with QRULE and R)
  • What Constitutes a Significant Difference in Landscape Pattern? (using R)
  • Modeling Landscape Change with Markov Models (with R option)
  • Simulating Management Actions and Their Effect on Forest Landscape Pattern (with Harvest Lite)
  • Regional and Continental-scale Perspectives on Landscape Pattern
  • Using Spatial Statistics and Landscape Metrics to Compare Disturbance Mosaics (with GS+)
  • Assessing Multi-scale Landscape Connectivity Using Network Analysis
  • Conservation Planning (with Marxan)
  • Advances in Quantifying Habitat Connectivity Using Graph Theory (with Conefor)
  • Linking Landscapes and Metacommunities (using R) Joseph R. Bennett and Ben Gilbert
  • Modeling Spatial Dynamics of Ecosystem Processes and Services
  • Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Services: Multi-scale Carbon Management in Tropical Forest Landscapes
  • Regime Shifts and Spatial Resilience in a Coral Reef Seascape
  • Understanding Land-Use Feedbacks and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs in Agriculture
  • Social Networks: Uncovering Social-ecological Mismatches in Heterogeneous Marine Landscapes.

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