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, 2002)
and Concepts of Scale -- Scale and Hierarchy Theory -- Collecting Spatial Data at Broad Scales -- to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- Models and Causes of Landscape Pattern -- to Markov Models -- Simulating Changes in Landscape Pattern -- Creating Landscape Pattern -- Quantifying Landscape Pattern -- Understanding Landscape Metrics I -- Understanding Landscape Metrics II -- Neutral Landscape Models -- Scale Detection Using Semivariograms and Autocorrelograms -- Disturbance Dynamics -- Landscape Disturbance -- Alternative Stable States -- Organism Response to Landscape Pattern -- Interpreting Landscape Patterns from Organism-Based Perspectives -- Landscape Context -- Landscape Connectivity and Metapopulation Dynamics -- Individual-Based Modeling -- Ecosystem Processes at Broad Scales -- Feedbacks between Organisms and Ecosystem Processes -- Modeling Ecosystem Processes -- Applied Landscape Ecology -- Reserve Design -- Prioritizing Reserves for Acquisition.
Keywords: Landscape ecology; Ecology .; Regional planning; Urban planning; Environmental monitoring; Landscape Ecology; Ecology; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Terrestial Ecology; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.