Learning Landscape Ecology : A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques - Gergel, Sarah E.; Turner, Monica G.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2017)
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.
Keywords: Landscape ecology; Regional planning; Urban planning; Ecology .; Environmental monitoring; Landscape Ecology; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Terrestial Ecology; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.