Learning Landscape Ecology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. What Is a Landscape? Basic Concepts and Tools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Remote Sensing

      • Nicholas C. Coops, Thoreau Rory Tooke

      Pages 3-19

   3. Historical Aerial Photography for Landscape Analysis

      • Jessica L. Morgan, Sarah E. Gergel, Collin Ankerson, Stephanie A. Tomscha, Ira J. Sutherland

      Pages 21-40

   4. Citizen Science for Assessing Landscape Change

      • Jeffrey A. Cardille, Michelle M. Jackson

      Pages 41-42

3. Fundamentals of Quantifying Landscape Pattern

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Understanding Landscape Metrics

      • Jeffrey A. Cardille, Monica G. Turner

      Pages 45-63

   3. Scale Detection Using Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms

      • Michael W. Palmer, Daniel J. McGlinn

      Pages 65-81

   4. Characterizing Categorical Map Patterns Using Neutral Landscape Models

      • Robert H. Gardner

      Pages 83-103

   5. What Constitutes a Significant Difference in Landscape Pattern?

      • Tarmo K. Remmel, Marie-Josée Fortin

      Pages 105-125

4. Landscape Change and Disturbance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Introduction to Markov Models

      • Dean L. Urban, David O. Wallin

      Pages 129-142

   3. Simulating Management Actions and Their Effects on Forest Landscape Pattern

      • Eric J. Gustafson

      Pages 143-156

   4. Regional and Continental-Scale Perspectives on Landscape Pattern

      • Jeffrey A. Cardille, Monica G. Turner

      Pages 157-173

   5. Using Spatial Statistics and Landscape Metrics to Compare Disturbance Mosaics

      • Monica G. Turner, Martin Simard

      Pages 175-190

5. Applications for Conservation and Assessing Connectivity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Assessing Multi-Scale Landscape Connectivity Using Network Analysis

      • Todd R. Lookingbill, Emily S. Minor

      Pages 193-209

   3. Systematic Conservation Planning with Marxan

      • Matthew E. Watts, Romola R. Stewart, Tara G. Martin, Carissa J. Klein, Josie Carwardine, Hugh P. Possingham

      Pages 211-227

   4. Connectivity as the Amount of Reachable Habitat: Conservation Priorities and the Roles of Habitat Patches in Landscape Networks

      • Santiago Saura, Begoña de la Fuente

      Pages 229-254

   5. Linking Landscapes and Metacommunities

      • Joseph R. Bennett, Benjamin Gilbert

      Pages 255-271

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/​

• Landscape analysis
• landscape change
• sustainable landscapes
• spatial modeling
• spatial resilience
• spatial statistics
• landscape/regional and urban planning

“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)

• University of British Columbia, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Vancouver, Canada

  Sarah E. Gergel

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Zoology, Madison, USA

  Monica G. Turner

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

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