Learning Landscape Ecology
A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques
Editors: Gergel, Sarah E., Turner, Monica G. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Utilizes examples, data and authors around the world to communicate to a more global audience
- Provides a user-friendly translation of challenging quantitative techniques such as graph theory, spatial statistics, R software, network analysis, social-ecological systems, and object-oriented approaches within the context of landscape ecology
- Labs incorporate the latest scientific understanding of ecosystem services, resilience, social-ecological landscapes, and even seascapes
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- About this Textbook
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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.
http://sarahgergel.net/lel/learning-landscape-ecology/ - About the authors
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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 - Reviews
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“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)
- Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction to Remote Sensing
Pages 3-19
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Historical Aerial Photography for Landscape Analysis
Pages 21-40
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Citizen Science for Assessing Landscape Change
Pages 41-42
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Understanding Landscape Metrics
Pages 45-63
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Scale Detection Using Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms
Pages 65-81
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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- Download Sample pages 1 PDF (1.6 MB)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Learning Landscape Ecology
- Book Subtitle
- A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques
- Editors
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- Sarah E. Gergel
- Monica G. Turner
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4939-6374-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4939-6374-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-6372-0
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 350
- Number of Illustrations
- 39 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
- Topics
