Learning Landscape Ecology: A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques

ISBN-13: 9781493963720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 350 str.

Sarah E. Gergel; Monica G. Turner

Opis

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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Recenzje

"As with the previous edition, the volume is designed around teaching, including structured exercises and a very helpful guide to designing specific courses of study relating to applied aspects of landscape ecology, from conservation and forestry to sustainable management of landscapes and watersheds. It is also supported by free software and data, now provided online. If you study or teach landscape ecology, you need this book." (Erle C. Ellis, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 93 (2), June, 2018)

Spis treści

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-Josée 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 Begoña 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 Nyström 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

Örjan Bodin and Beatrice I. Crona.

O autorze

Sarah E. Gergel 

Associate Professor of Landscape Ecology & Conservation 

Assistant Dean, Diversity & Inclusion 

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences 

University of British Columbia 

Vancouver, BC 

Canada

Monica G. Turner 

Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology and Vilas Research Professor 

Department of Zoology 

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Madison, WI 

USA

Blurb

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.