Learning landscape ecology : a practical guide to concepts and techniques / Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner, editors.
Gergel, Sarah E., editor.; Turner, Monica Goigel, editor.
2017
QH541.15.L35
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Title Learning landscape ecology : a practical guide to concepts and techniques / Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner, editors.
Edition Second edition.
ISBN 9781493963744 (electronic book)
1493963740 (electronic book)
9781493963720
1493963724
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6374-4
Published New York, NY : Springer, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-1-4939-6374-4 doi
Call Number QH541.15.L35
Dewey Decimal Classification 577
Summary 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.
Note Includes index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 6, 2017).
Added Author Gergel, Sarah E., editor.
Turner, Monica Goigel, editor.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9781493963720
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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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