Learning landscape ecology : a practical guide to concepts and techniques
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Learning landscape ecology : a practical guide to concepts and techniques
Springer, c2017
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 in its ability to address challenges over large areas, over spatial and temporal scales at which decision-making often occurs. As the world tackles issues related to sustainability and global change, the need for this broad perspective has only increased. Furthermore, spatial data and spatial analysis (core methods in landscape ecology) are critical for analyzing land-cover changes world-wide. While spatial dynamics have long been fundamental to terrestrial conservation strategies, land management and reserve design, mapping and spatial themes are increasingly recognized as important for ecosystem management in aquatic, coastal and marine systems.
This second edition is purposefully more applied and international in its examples, approaches, perspectives and contributors. It includes new advances in quantifying landscape structure and connectivity (such as graph theory), as well as labs that incorporate the latest scientific understanding of ecosystem services, resilience, social-ecological landscapes, and even seascapes. Of course, as before, the exercises emphasize easy-to-use, widely available software.
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Advice for Instructors
I. WHAT IS A LANDSCAPE? BASIC CONCEPTS AND TOOLS
Chapter 1: Introduction to Remote Sensing
Nicholas C. Coops and T. Rory Tooke
Chapter 2: Historical Aerial Photography for Landscape Analysis
Jessica L. Morgan, Sarah E. Gergel, Collin Ankerson, Stephanie A. Tomscha and Ira Sutherland
Chapter 3: Citizen Science for Assessing Landscape Change
Jeffrey A. Cardille and Michelle M. Jackson
II. FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTIFYING LANDSCAPE PATTERN
Chapter 4: Understanding Landscape Metrics
Jeffrey A. Cardille and Monica G. Turner
Chapter 5: Scale Detection with Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms (with R option)
Michael W. Palmer and Daniel J. McGlinn
Chapter 6: Characterizing Categorical Map Patterns Using Neutral Landscape Models (with QRULE and R)
Robert H. Gardner
Chapter 7: What Constitutes a Significant Difference in Landscape Pattern? (using R)
Tarmo K. Remmel and Marie-Josee Fortin
III. LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND DISTURBANCE
Chapter 8: Modeling Landscape Change with Markov Models (with R option)
Dean L. Urban and David O. Wallin
Chapter 9: Simulating Management Actions and Their Effect on Forest Landscape Pattern (with Harvest Lite)
Eric J. Gustafson
Chapter 10: Regional and Continental-scale Perspectives on Landscape Pattern
Jeffrey A. Cardille and Monica G. Turner
Chapter 11: Using Spatial Statistics and Landscape Metrics to Compare Disturbance Mosaics (with GS+) <
Monica G. Turner and Martin Simard
IV. APPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION AND ASSESSING CONNECTIVITY
Chapter 12: Assessing Multi-scale Landscape Connectivity Using Network Analysis
Todd R. Lookingbill and Emily S. Minor
Chapter 13: Conservation Planning (with Marxan)
Matthew Watts, Hugh P. Possingham, Carissa J. Klein, Tara G. Martin and Josie Carwardine
Chapter 14: Advances in Quantifying Habitat Connectivity Using Graph Theory (with Conefor)
Santiago Saura and Begona de la Fuente
Chapter 15: Linking Landscapes and Metacommunities (using R)
Joseph R. Bennett and Ben Gilbert V. ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES AND FEEDBACKS IN SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES
Chapter 16: Modeling Spatial Dynamics of Ecosystem Processes and Services
Sarah E. Gergel and Tara Reed
Chapter 17: Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Services: Multi-scale Carbon Management in Tropical Forest Landscapes
Kathryn R. Kirby, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla and Sarah E. Gergel
Chapter 18: Regime Shifts and Spatial Resilience in a Coral Reef Seascape
Jennifer C. Selgrath, Garry D. Peterson, Matilda Thyresson, Magnus Nystroem and Sarah E. Gergel
Chapter 19: Understanding Land-Use Feedbacks and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs in Agriculture
Lisa A. Schulte and John C. Tyndall
Chapter 20: Social Networks: Uncovering Social-ecological Mismatches in Heterogeneous Marine Landscapes
OErjan Bodin and Beatrice I. Crona.
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