▪ Abstract Landscape ecology focuses on the reciprocal interactions between spatial pattern and ecological processes, and it is well integrated with ecology. The field has grown rapidly …
How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …
Participatory scenario planning (PSP) is an increasingly popular tool in place-based environmental research for evaluating alternative futures of social-ecological systems …
They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …
M Antrop, V Van Eetvelde - The Holistic Nature of Landscape, 2017 - Springer
This chapter describes the history of the use of the word 'landscape'since its origin in western culture and the emergence of its different meanings, as well as the research that …
Spatial conservation prioritization concerns the effective allocation of conservation action. Its stages include development of an ecologically based model of conservation value, data pre …
P Opdam, D Wascher - Biological conservation, 2004 - Elsevier
Climate change and habitat fragmentation are considered key pressures on biodiversity. In this paper we explore the potential synergetic effects between these factors. We argue that …
JW Termorshuizen, P Opdam - Landscape ecology, 2009 - Springer
Landscape ecology is in a position to become the scientific basis for sustainable landscape development. When spatial planning policy is decentralised, local actors need to collaborate …