Landscape ecology: what is the state of the science?

MG Turner - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ 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 …

Natural reforestation is changing spatial patterns of rural mountain and hill landscapes: A global overview

T Sitzia, P Semenzato, G Trentanovi - Forest Ecology and Management, 2010 - Elsevier
The present landscape structure and function is the result of centuries of changes produced
both by natural processes and human driving forces. For centuries many mountain and …

[PDF][PDF] Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

MG Turner - 2001 - lepicolea.wordpress.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrological inferences from watershed analysis for water resource management using remote sensing and GIS techniques

P Singh, A Gupta, M Singh - The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study highlights the importance of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and satellite
images for assessment of drainage and extraction of their relative parameters for the Orr …

Changes in landscape spatial pattern in the highly developing state of Selangor, peninsular Malaysia

SA Abdullah, N Nakagoshi - Landscape and Urban planning, 2006 - Elsevier
In Malaysia, rapid changes in land use invariably portrayed have a relationship with
environmental degradation. However, this has always been stated without any quantitative …

The impacts of watershed management on land use and land cover dynamics in Eastern Tigray (Ethiopia)

F Alemayehu, N Taha, J Nyssen, A Girma… - Resources …, 2009 - Elsevier
Integrated watershed management (IWSM) was implemented to address issues of poverty
and land resource degradation in the 14,500 ha upper Agula watershed, in semi-arid …

Landscape metrics for assessment of land cover change and fragmentation of a heterogeneous watershed

M Kumar, DM Denis, SK Singh, S Szabó… - Remote Sensing …, 2018 - Elsevier
With an aim to understand the fragmentation of Usri watershed with the aid of open access
remotely sensed data and FRAGSTATS. Long term (1976–1989–2000–2014) Landsat …

Species richness alone does not predict cultural ecosystem service value

RA Graves, SM Pearson… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Many biodiversity-ecosystem services studies omit cultural ecosystem services (CES) or use
species richness as a proxy and assume that more species confer greater CES value. We …

Land use/cover change and landscape fragmentation analysis in the Bindura District, Zimbabwe

C Kamusoko, M Aniya - Land degradation & development, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid land use/cover change and landscape fragmentation is occurring in many countries in
central and southern Africa, as a result of colonial imbalances in land distribution …

Understanding regional change: a comparison of two lake districts

SR Carpenter, BJ Benson, R Biggs, JW Chipman… - Bioscience, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We compared long-term change in two lake districts, one in a forested rural setting and the
other in an urbanizing agricultural region, using lakes as sentinel ecosystems. Human …