P Kindlmann, F Burel - Landscape ecology, 2008 - Springer
One of the central problems in contemporary ecology and conservation biology is the drastic change of landscapes induced by anthropogenic activities, resulting in habitat loss and …
The advancements of the scientific knowledge require continuous efforts to convert these progresses into social, economic, and political actions. Nowadays, as direct consequence of …
T Byomkesh, N Nakagoshi, AM Dewan - Landscape and Ecological …, 2012 - Springer
Green space is particularly indispensable for proper functioning of the ecosystem in an urban environment. This study was an attempt to dynamically map and monitor green …
Ecological monitoring and management require detailed information over broad spatial scales. Historically, such information was often acquired through manual interpretation of …
K McGarigal, S Tagil, SA Cushman - Landscape ecology, 2009 - Springer
Modern landscape ecology is based on the patch mosaic paradigm, in which landscapes are conceptualized and analyzed as mosaics of discrete patches. While this model has been …
U Walz - Living reviews in landscape research, 2011 - lrlr.landscapeonline.de
This paper deals with the question of the role landscape metrics can play in the investigation, evaluation and monitoring of landscape structure, and which linkages …
Species patchiness implies that nearby observations of species abundance tend to be similar or that individual conspecific organisms are more closely spaced than by random …
Landscape ecology offers a spatially explicit perspective on the relationships between ecological patterns and processes that can be applied across a range of scales. Concepts …
L Chen, B Fu, W Zhao - Frontiers of Biology in China, 2008 - Springer
Exploring the relationships between landscape pattern and ecological processes is the key topic of landscape ecology, for which, a large number of indices as well as landscape …