Learning landscape ecology : a practical guide to concepts and techniques /: a practical guide to concepts and techniques. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner, editors.
• Editors: Gergel, Sarah E; Turner, Monica Goigel
• Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Advice for Instructors -- Introduction to Remote Sensing -- Historical Aerial Photography for Landscape Analysis -- Citizen Science for Assessing Landscape Change -- Understanding Landscape Metrics -- Scale Detection with Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms (with R option) -- Characterizing Categorical Map Patterns Using Neutral Landscape Models (with QRULE and R) -- What Constitutes a Significant Difference in Landscape Pattern? (using R) -- Modeling Landscape Change with Markov Models (with R option) -- Simulating Management Actions and Their Effect on Forest Landscape Pattern (with Harvest Lite) -- Regional and Continental-scale Perspectives on Landscape Pattern -- Using Spatial Statistics and Landscape Metrics to Compare Disturbance Mosaics (with GS+) -- Assessing Multi-scale Landscape Connectivity Using Network Analysis -- Conservation Planning (with Marxan) -- Advances in Quantifying Habitat Connectivity Using Graph Theory (with Conefor) -- Linking Landscapes and Metacommunities (using R) Joseph R. Bennett and Ben Gilbert -- Modeling Spatial Dynamics of Ecosystem Processes and Services -- Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Services: Multi-scale Carbon Management in Tropical Forest Landscapes -- Regime Shifts and Spatial Resilience in a Coral Reef Seascape -- Understanding Land-Use Feedbacks and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs in Agriculture -- Social Networks: Uncovering Social-ecological Mismatches in Heterogeneous Marine Landscapes.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 577; Life sciences; Landscape ecology; Landscape ecology -- Study and teaching; Landscape ecology; Life Sciences; Landscape Ecology; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Terrestial Ecology; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics; Political Science -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Science -- Environmental Science; Regional & area planning; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Environmental monitoring; Regional planning; Ecology; Plant ecology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781493963744; 1493963740
• Related ISBNs: 9781493963720; 1493963724
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 6, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.