Quantitative imaging in cancer evolution and ecology

RA Gatenby, O Grove, RJ Gillies - Radiology, 2013 - pubs.rsna.org
Cancer therapy, even when highly targeted, typically fails because of the remarkable
capacity of malignant cells to evolve effective adaptations. These evolutionary dynamics are …

Connectivity measures: a review

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 …

[图书][B] Principles and methods in landscape ecology

A Farina - 1998 - Springer
The advancements of the scientific knowledge require continuous efforts to convert these
progresses into social, economic, and political actions. Nowadays, as direct consequence of …

Urbanization and green space dynamics in Greater Dhaka, Bangladesh

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 …

Aerial photography: a rapidly evolving tool for ecological management

JL Morgan, SE Gergel, NC Coops - BioScience, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Ecological monitoring and management require detailed information over broad spatial
scales. Historically, such information was often acquired through manual interpretation of …

Surface metrics: an alternative to patch metrics for the quantification of landscape structure

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Landscape structure, landscape metrics and biodiversity

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 …

Spatial analysis of landscapes: concepts and statistics

HH Wagner, MJ Fortin - Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
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 in North America: past, present, and future

MG Turner - Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Source-sink landscape theory and its ecological significance

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 …