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Spatial Complexity, Informatics, and Wildlife Conservation

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Editors:
  1. Samuel A. Cushman

    1. US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, USA

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  2. Falk Huettmann

    1. EWHALE lab- Biology and Wildlife Department, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Theory and Practice

    1. Introduction: Ecological Knowledge, Theory and Information in Space and Time

      • Samuel A. Cushman, Falk Huettmann
      Pages 3-18

    2. Space and Time in Ecology: Noise or Fundamental Driver?

      • Samuel A. Cushman
      Pages 19-41

    3. The Problem of Ecological Scaling in Spatially Complex, Nonequilibrium Ecological Systems

      • Samuel A. Cushman, Jeremy Littell, Kevin McGarigal
      Pages 43-63

    4. Landscape Ecology: Past, Present, and Future

      • Samuel A. Cushman, Jeffrey S. Evans, Kevin McGarigal
      Pages 65-82

    5. The Gradient Paradigm: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework for Landscape Ecology

      • Samuel A. Cushman, Kevin Gutzweiler, Jeffrey S. Evans, Kevin McGarigal
      Pages 83-108

  3. Method and Data

    1. Data on Distribution and Abundance: Monitoring for Research and Management

      • Samuel A. Cushman, Kevin S. McKelvey
      Pages 111-129

    2. Animal Movement Data: GPS Telemetry, Autocorrelation and the Need for Path-Level Analysis

      • Samuel A. Cushman
      Pages 131-149

    3. Using a Random Forest Model and Public Data to Predict the Distribution of Prey for Marine Wildlife Management

      • Steffen Oppel, Falk Huettmann
      Pages 151-163

    4. Landscape Genomics: A Brief Perspective

      • Michael K. Schwartz, Kevin S. McKelvey, Samuel A. Cushman, Gordon Luikart
      Pages 165-174

    5. Spatial Information Management in Wildlife Ecology: Adding Spatially Explicit Behaviour Data to the Equation?

      • Kim Jochum, Falk Huettmann
      Pages 175-191

    6. Critical Remote Sensing Contributions to Spatial Wildlife Ecological Knowledge and Management

      • Gregory J. McDermid, Nicholas C. Coops, Michael A. Wulder, Steven E. Franklin, Nicole E. Seitz
      Pages 193-221

    7. Spatial Data Management Through Metadata: Global Concepts, Formats, Tools and Requirements

      • Vivian Hutchison
      Pages 223-231

    8. Free Database Availability, Metadata and the Internet: An Example of Two High Latitude Components of the Census of Marine Life

      • Bodil Bluhm, David Watts, Falk Huettmann
      Pages 233-243

    9. Components of Spatial Information Management in Wildlife Ecology: Software for Statistical and Modeling Analysis

      • Hawthorne L. Beyer, Jeff Jenness, Samuel A. Cushman
      Pages 245-253

    10. Spatial Analysis of Wildlife Distribution and Disease Spread

      • Marie-Josée Fortin, Mark R. T. Dale, Stefania Bertazzon
      Pages 255-272

    11. Current State of the Art for Statistical Modelling of Species Distributions

      • Troy M. Hegel, Samuel A. Cushman, Jeffrey Evans, Falk Huettmann
      Pages 273-311

    12. Landscape Genetics

      • Kevin S. McKelvey, Samuel A. Cushman, Michael K. Schwartz
      Pages 313-328

  4. Examples

    1. Using Geographical Mapping and Occupancy Modeling to Study the Distribution of the Critically Endangered Leopard (Panthera pardus) Population in Armenia

      • Igor G. Khorozyan, Alexander G. Malkhasyan, Shushanik G. Asmaryan, Alexei V. Abramov
      Pages 331-347

    2. Mapping Landscape Resistance to Identify Corridors and Barriers for Elephant Movement in Southern Africa

      • Samuel A. Cushman, Michael Chase, Curtice Griffin
      Pages 349-367
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About this book

As Earth faces the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years, the present is a moment of tremendous foment and emergence in ecological science. With leaps in advances in ecological research and the technical tools available, scientists face the critical task of challenging policymakers and the public to recognize the urgency of our global crisis. This book focuses directly on the interplay between theory, data, and analytical methodology in the rapidly evolving fields of animal ecology, conservation, and management. The mixture of topics of particular current relevance includes landscape ecology, remote sensing, spatial modeling, geostatistics, genomics, and ecological informatics. The greatest interest to the practicing scientist and graduate student will be the synthesis and integration of these topics to provide a composite view of the emerging field of spatial ecological informatics and its applications in research and management.

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“Spatial complexity, informatics, and wildlife conservation was based on the symposium ‘Advanced GeoScience Applications’ held at the 9th International Mammalogical Conference in Hokkaido, Japan in 2005. … the intended audience would include researchers, scientists and graduate level students. … this book more valuable to have available in libraries, university departments or labs … . I recommend practitioners of spatial data and their analysis read this book to extract what valuable information they can.” (Stephen L. Webb, Ecology, Vol. 91 (12), December, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, USA

    Samuel A. Cushman

  • EWHALE lab- Biology and Wildlife Department, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA

    Falk Huettmann

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spatial Complexity, Informatics, and Wildlife Conservation

  • Editors: Samuel A. Cushman, Falk Huettmann

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-87771-4

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-87770-7Published: 15 January 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54755-6Published: 01 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-87771-4Published: 21 December 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 458

  • Topics: Ecology, Zoology

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